{"id":428601,"date":"2021-08-02T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428601"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:45:02","slug":"crude-oil-prices-slide-on-worries-over-china-economy-and-higher-crude-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-slide-on-worries-over-china-economy-and-higher-crude-output\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices slide on worries over China economy and higher crude output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell by more than $1 on Monday on worries over China&#8217;s economy after a survey showed growth in factory activity slipped sharply in the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer, with concerns compounded by a rise in oil output from OPEC producers.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures skidded $1.12, or 1.5%, to $74.29 a barrel by 0156 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures dropped 97 cents, or 1.3%, to $72.98 a barrel after slipping to a session low of $72.87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell by more than $1 on Monday on worries over China&#8217;s economy after a survey showed growth in factory activity slipped sharply in the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer, with concerns compounded by a rise in oil output from OPEC producers. Brent crude oil futures skidded $1.12, or 1.5%, to $74.29 a barrel by 0156 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures dropped 97 cents, or 1.3%, to $72.98 a barrel after slipping to a session low of $72.87.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428601","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=428601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}