{"id":410611,"date":"2021-04-14T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410611"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:51:57","slug":"oil-prices-climb-on-robust-china-data-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-climb-on-robust-china-data-middle-east-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices climb on robust China data, Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices climbed on Tuesday as data from China showed the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer&#8217;s import growth surging and on tensions in the Middle East after the Yemen-based Houthi movement said it fired missiles on Saudi oil sites. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures were up 37 cents, or 0.6%, at $63.65 a barrel by 0656 GMT while U.S. crude oil futures gained 32 cents, or 0.5%, to $60.02 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s exports grew at a robust pace in March in yet another boost to the nation&#8217;s economic recovery as global demand picks up amid progress in worldwide COVID-19 vaccinations, while import growth surged to the highest in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices climbed on Tuesday as data from China showed the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer&#8217;s import growth surging and on tensions in the Middle East after the Yemen-based Houthi movement said it fired missiles on Saudi oil sites. Brent crude oil futures were up 37 cents, or 0.6%, at $63.65 a barrel by 0656 GMT while U.S. crude oil futures gained 32 cents, or 0.5%, to $60.02 a barrel. China&#8217;s exports grew at a robust pace in March in yet another boost to the nation&#8217;s economic recovery as global demand picks up amid progress in worldwide COVID-19 vaccinations, while import [&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-410611","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\/410611","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=410611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}