{"id":468676,"date":"2022-02-17T08:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=468676"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T03:02:52","slug":"oil-prices-recover-losses-as-russia-ukraine-tensions-continue-to-stay-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-recover-losses-as-russia-ukraine-tensions-continue-to-stay-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices recover losses as Russia-Ukraine tensions continue to stay high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices recouped losses on Wednesday as investors weighed conflicting statements on the possible withdrawal of some Russian troops from around Ukraine amid tight global supplies and recovering fuel demand.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up $1.28, or 1.4%, at $94.56 a barrel around 1320 GMT, having slid 3.3% overnight after Russia announced a partial pullback of its troops near Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was up $1.14, or 1.2%, at $93.21 after the contract ended Tuesday&#8217;s session with a 3.6% decline.<\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks hit their highest since September 2014 on Monday, with Brent touching $96.78 and WTI reaching $95.82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices recouped losses on Wednesday as investors weighed conflicting statements on the possible withdrawal of some Russian troops from around Ukraine amid tight global supplies and recovering fuel demand. Brent crude was up $1.28, or 1.4%, at $94.56 a barrel around 1320 GMT, having slid 3.3% overnight after Russia announced a partial pullback of its troops near Ukraine. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was up $1.14, or 1.2%, at $93.21 after the contract ended Tuesday&#8217;s session with a 3.6% decline. Both benchmarks hit their highest since September 2014 on Monday, with Brent touching $96.78 and WTI [&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-468676","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\/468676","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=468676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}