{"id":418257,"date":"2021-06-02T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418257"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T07:01:12","slug":"crude-oil-price-hits-3-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-price-hits-3-month-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil price hits 3-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday, with Brent hitting $71 and trading at its highest since March, on expectations for growing fuel demand during the summer driving season in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Prices were also boosted by Chinese data showing that the country\u2019s factory activity grew at its fastest this year in May.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for August gained $1.48, or 2.1%, to $70.80 a barrel by 1110 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude for July was at $68.19. That was up $1.87, or 2.8%, from Friday\u2019s close, with no settlement price for Monday because of a US public holiday. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday, with Brent hitting $71 and trading at its highest since March, on expectations for growing fuel demand during the summer driving season in the US. Prices were also boosted by Chinese data showing that the country\u2019s factory activity grew at its fastest this year in May. Brent crude futures for August gained $1.48, or 2.1%, to $70.80 a barrel by 1110 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude for July was at $68.19. That was up $1.87, or 2.8%, from Friday\u2019s close, with no settlement price for Monday because of a US public holiday. \u2014 Reuters<\/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":[130,223,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418257","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=418257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}