{"id":475376,"date":"2022-03-14T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475376"},"modified":"2022-03-14T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:50:22","slug":"oil-prices-slide-by-about-4-per-barrel-extending-last-weeks-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slide-by-about-4-per-barrel-extending-last-weeks-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slide by about $4 per barrel, extending last week&#8217;s decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices extended last week&#8217;s decline to fall by about $4 a barrel during early trade on Monday after a U.S. official said Russia was showing signs it might be willing to have substantive negotiations over Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures was last down by $4.12 or 3.6% at $108.55 a barrel at 0115 GMT on Monday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures eased $3.93 or 3.7% to $105.40 a barrel. Both contracts have surged since Russia&#8217;s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and are up roughly 40% for the year to date. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said that Russia is showing signs it might be willing to have substantive negotiations over Ukraine, even as Moscow currently is intent on &#8220;destroying&#8221; its neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices extended last week&#8217;s decline to fall by about $4 a barrel during early trade on Monday after a U.S. official said Russia was showing signs it might be willing to have substantive negotiations over Ukraine. Brent crude futures was last down by $4.12 or 3.6% at $108.55 a barrel at 0115 GMT on Monday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures eased $3.93 or 3.7% to $105.40 a barrel. Both contracts have surged since Russia&#8217;s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and are up roughly 40% for the year to date. On Sunday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy [&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-475376","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\/475376","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=475376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}