{"id":408044,"date":"2021-03-31T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T03:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408044"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T03:54:23","slug":"oil-prices-slip-as-suez-canal-opens-focus-turns-to-opec-output-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slip-as-suez-canal-opens-focus-turns-to-opec-output-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slip as Suez Canal opens, focus turns to OPEC+ output cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices fell on Tuesday as the Suez Canal reopened to traffic, while focus turned to an OPEC+ meeting this week that is likely to agree an extension to supply curbs amid disappointing demand prospects. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 50 cents, or 0.8%, at $64.48 a barrel by 0851 GMT. U.S. oil was off by 58 cents, or 0.9%, at $60.98 barrel. <\/p>\n<p>Ships were moving through the Suez Canal again on Tuesday after tugs refloated the giant Ever Given container carrier, which had been blocking a narrow section of the passage for almost a week, causing a huge build-up of vessels around the waterway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices fell on Tuesday as the Suez Canal reopened to traffic, while focus turned to an OPEC+ meeting this week that is likely to agree an extension to supply curbs amid disappointing demand prospects. Brent crude was down 50 cents, or 0.8%, at $64.48 a barrel by 0851 GMT. U.S. oil was off by 58 cents, or 0.9%, at $60.98 barrel. Ships were moving through the Suez Canal again on Tuesday after tugs refloated the giant Ever Given container carrier, which had been blocking a narrow section of the passage for almost a week, causing a [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408044","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=408044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}