{"id":420146,"date":"2021-06-14T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420146"},"modified":"2021-06-14T11:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T06:03:26","slug":"oil-holds-near-71-as-traders-assess-rising-demand-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-holds-near-71-as-traders-assess-rising-demand-iran-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil holds near $71 as traders assess rising demand, Iran talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil traded near $71 a barrel as the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines underpins an improved demand outlook in the U.S. and Europe. <\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate was little changed in early Asian trading after adding 1.9% last week to hit the highest level since October 2018. Americans are becoming increasingly comfortable meeting friends, going to workplaces, and attending large events, according to a CBS News survey, as U.S. daily air travelers topped 2 million for the first time since the pandemic began. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. benchmark is on course for a fifth quarterly advance, which would be the best run since 2010, as consumption improves while the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies ease supply curbs only gradually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil traded near $71 a barrel as the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines underpins an improved demand outlook in the U.S. and Europe. West Texas Intermediate was little changed in early Asian trading after adding 1.9% last week to hit the highest level since October 2018. Americans are becoming increasingly comfortable meeting friends, going to workplaces, and attending large events, according to a CBS News survey, as U.S. daily air travelers topped 2 million for the first time since the pandemic began. The U.S. benchmark is on course for a fifth quarterly advance, which would be the best run since 2010, [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420146","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=420146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}