{"id":408147,"date":"2021-03-31T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408147"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T05:25:18","slug":"oil-falls-as-suez-canal-opens-focus-turns-to-opec-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-falls-as-suez-canal-opens-focus-turns-to-opec-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil falls as Suez Canal opens, focus turns to OPEC+ meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices slid on Tuesday as the Suez Canal reopened to traffic, while focus turned to an OPEC+ meeting this week, where analysts expect an extension to supply curbs to offset disappointing demand prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude fell 31 cents, or 0.5%, at $64.67 a barrel by 11:11 a.m. (1511 GMT.) West Texas Intermediate US oil was down by 47 cents, or 0.8%, at $61.09 barrel. Both contracts earlier fell by more than $1 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices slid on Tuesday as the Suez Canal reopened to traffic, while focus turned to an OPEC+ meeting this week, where analysts expect an extension to supply curbs to offset disappointing demand prospects. Brent crude fell 31 cents, or 0.5%, at $64.67 a barrel by 11:11 a.m. (1511 GMT.) West Texas Intermediate US oil was down by 47 cents, or 0.8%, at $61.09 barrel. Both contracts earlier fell by more than $1 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-408147","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\/408147","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}