{"id":405399,"date":"2021-03-17T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405399"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:37:58","slug":"oil-drops-1-as-covid-19-vaccine-halt-threatens-demand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-drops-1-as-covid-19-vaccine-halt-threatens-demand-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil drops 1% as COVID-19 vaccine halt threatens demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices fell for a third day on Tuesday, as Germany, France and other European states suspended the use of a major coronavirus vaccine, threatening the recovery of fuel demand.<\/p>\n<p>Brent was down 59 cents, or 0.9%, to $68.29 a barrel by 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT). US crude fell 75 cents, or 1.2%, to $64.64 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Brent reached its highest since early 2020, while US crude hit a 2018 high.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, France and Italy said they would suspend use of the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine after reports about possible serious side effects, although the World Health Organization said there was no established link to the vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices fell for a third day on Tuesday, as Germany, France and other European states suspended the use of a major coronavirus vaccine, threatening the recovery of fuel demand. Brent was down 59 cents, or 0.9%, to $68.29 a barrel by 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT). US crude fell 75 cents, or 1.2%, to $64.64 a barrel. Earlier this month, Brent reached its highest since early 2020, while US crude hit a 2018 high. Germany, France and Italy said they would suspend use of the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine after reports about possible serious side effects, although the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}