{"id":408079,"date":"2021-03-31T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T03:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408079"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T04:48:37","slug":"oil-falls-as-suez-canal-opens-dollar-rallies-eyes-on-opec-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-falls-as-suez-canal-opens-dollar-rallies-eyes-on-opec-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil falls as Suez Canal opens, dollar rallies; eyes on OPEC+ meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid on Tuesday as the Suez Canal reopened to traffic and the dollar rallied, while focus turned to an OPEC+ meeting this week, where analysts expect an extension to supply curbs to offset dim demand prospects. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude fell $1.20, or 1.9%, at $63.78 a barrel by 1:12 p.m. (1712 GMT) West Texas Intermediate US oil was down by $1.28, or 2.1%, at $60.28 barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Ships were moving through the Suez Canal again a day after tugs refloated the Ever Given container carrier, which had blocked the passage for almost a week. The backlog of 422 ships could be cleared in 3 -1\/2 days, the canal&#8217;s chairman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid on Tuesday as the Suez Canal reopened to traffic and the dollar rallied, while focus turned to an OPEC+ meeting this week, where analysts expect an extension to supply curbs to offset dim demand prospects. Brent crude fell $1.20, or 1.9%, at $63.78 a barrel by 1:12 p.m. (1712 GMT) West Texas Intermediate US oil was down by $1.28, or 2.1%, at $60.28 barrel. Ships were moving through the Suez Canal again a day after tugs refloated the Ever Given container carrier, which had blocked the passage for almost a week. The backlog of 422 ships could [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408079","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=408079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}