{"id":461193,"date":"2022-01-10T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=461193"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:46:08","slug":"oil-drops-for-2nd-session-on-concerns-over-rising-covid-19-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-drops-for-2nd-session-on-concerns-over-rising-covid-19-cases-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil drops for 2nd session on concerns over rising Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil lost more ground on Monday as rapidly climbing cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant hit economic activity, although losses were curbed by supply disruptions in Kazakhstan and Libya. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude slid 38 cents, or 0.46 per cent, to $81.37 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 34 cents, or 0.43 per cent, to $78.56 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>US employment in the country increased less than expected in December amid worker shortages, and job gains could remain moderate in the near term as spiralling Covid-19 infections disrupt economic activity. <\/p>\n<p>More than 304.87 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 5,834,506\u200b have died, according to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil lost more ground on Monday as rapidly climbing cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant hit economic activity, although losses were curbed by supply disruptions in Kazakhstan and Libya. Brent crude slid 38 cents, or 0.46 per cent, to $81.37 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 34 cents, or 0.43 per cent, to $78.56 a barrel. US employment in the country increased less than expected in December amid worker shortages, and job gains could remain moderate in the near term as spiralling Covid-19 infections disrupt economic activity. More than 304.87 million people have been reported [&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-461193","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\/461193","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=461193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}