{"id":498241,"date":"2022-06-14T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498241"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:20:55","slug":"oil-dips-on-beijings-covid-warning-fears-of-rate-hikes-to-curb-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-dips-on-beijings-covid-warning-fears-of-rate-hikes-to-curb-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil dips on Beijing&#8217;s Covid warning, fears of rate hikes to curb inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Oil dropped about $2 a barrel on Monday as a flare-up in COVID-19 cases in Beijing dented hopes of a Chinese demand rebound, while worries about more interest rate hikes to control rampant inflation added further pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s most populous district Chaoyang announced three rounds of mass testing to quell a &#8220;ferocious&#8221; COVID-19 outbreak that emerged last week. Mass testing would take place until Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Oil dropped about $2 a barrel on Monday as a flare-up in COVID-19 cases in Beijing dented hopes of a Chinese demand rebound, while worries about more interest rate hikes to control rampant inflation added further pressure. Beijing&#8217;s most populous district Chaoyang announced three rounds of mass testing to quell a &#8220;ferocious&#8221; COVID-19 outbreak that emerged last week. Mass testing would take place until Wednesday.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498241","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\/498241","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=498241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}