{"id":443077,"date":"2021-10-18T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443077"},"modified":"2021-10-18T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:43:31","slug":"asian-shares-jittery-ahead-of-chinas-economic-data-oil-hits-fresh-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/asian-shares-jittery-ahead-of-chinas-economic-data-oil-hits-fresh-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian shares jittery ahead of China&#8217;s economic data; oil hits fresh highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Asian shares were on edge on Monday morning ahead of the release of Chinese economic data for the third quarter, as investors fret about the health of the world&#8217;s second-largest economy even as U.S companies report strong quarterly earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices hit new multi-year peaks, continuing their recent surge amid a global energy shortage, with U.S. crude at a fresh seven-year high and Brent at a three-year high.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, bitcoin was within sight of its all-time high, sitting at $62,500 and not far from April&#8217;s record of $64,895, having gained last week on hopes that U.S. regulators would allow a futures-based exchange-traded fund (ETF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Asian shares were on edge on Monday morning ahead of the release of Chinese economic data for the third quarter, as investors fret about the health of the world&#8217;s second-largest economy even as U.S companies report strong quarterly earnings. Oil prices hit new multi-year peaks, continuing their recent surge amid a global energy shortage, with U.S. crude at a fresh seven-year high and Brent at a three-year high. Meanwhile, bitcoin was within sight of its all-time high, sitting at $62,500 and not far from April&#8217;s record of $64,895, having gained last week on hopes that U.S. [&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-443077","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\/443077","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=443077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}