{"id":413525,"date":"2021-05-05T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413525"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T04:04:57","slug":"oil-edges-up-on-us-europe-demand-growth-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-edges-up-on-us-europe-demand-growth-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil edges up on US, Europe demand growth prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices added to overnight gains on Tuesday, buoyed as more US states eased lockdowns and the European Union sought to attract more travellers, which would help offset weakened fuel demand in India as Covid-19 cases soar. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 14 cents, or 0.2%, to $67.70 a barrel at 0150 GMT, after climbing 1.2% on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures also rose 14 cents, or 0.2%, to $64.63 a barrel, after gaining 1.4% on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Prices are being supported by the prospect of a pick-up in fuel demand in the United States and Europe, as New York state, New Jersey and Connecticut were set to ease pandemic curbs and the European Union planned to open up to more foreign visitors who have been vaccinated, analysts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices added to overnight gains on Tuesday, buoyed as more US states eased lockdowns and the European Union sought to attract more travellers, which would help offset weakened fuel demand in India as Covid-19 cases soar. Brent crude futures rose 14 cents, or 0.2%, to $67.70 a barrel at 0150 GMT, after climbing 1.2% on Monday. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures also rose 14 cents, or 0.2%, to $64.63 a barrel, after gaining 1.4% on Monday. Prices are being supported by the prospect of a pick-up in fuel demand in the United States and Europe, as New [&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-413525","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\/413525","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=413525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}