{"id":411393,"date":"2021-04-22T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T02:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411393"},"modified":"2021-04-22T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:30:42","slug":"oil-prices-rise-to-one-month-high-on-weak-dollar-fall-in-us-inventory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-to-one-month-high-on-weak-dollar-fall-in-us-inventory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise to one-month high on weak dollar, fall in US inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices rose to over one-month highs on Tuesday as a weaker U.S. dollar supported commodities and on expectations that crude inventories fell in the United States, the world&#8217;s biggest oil user, though rising coronavirus cases in Asia capped gains. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for June delivery had risen by 66 cents, or 1%, to $67.71 a barrel as at 0642 GMT after earlier hitting a session high of $67.97.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May delivery, which expire on Tuesday, were up 70 cents, or 1.1%, at $64.08 barrel. The more-active June contract was at $64.02, up 0.9%, or 59 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices rose to over one-month highs on Tuesday as a weaker U.S. dollar supported commodities and on expectations that crude inventories fell in the United States, the world&#8217;s biggest oil user, though rising coronavirus cases in Asia capped gains. Brent crude futures for June delivery had risen by 66 cents, or 1%, to $67.71 a barrel as at 0642 GMT after earlier hitting a session high of $67.97. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May delivery, which expire on Tuesday, were up 70 cents, or 1.1%, at $64.08 barrel. The more-active June contract was [&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-411393","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\/411393","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=411393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}