{"id":506972,"date":"2022-07-20T09:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=506972"},"modified":"2022-07-20T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:28:14","slug":"oil-steady-as-economic-slowdown-worries-offsets-tight-supplies-weak-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-steady-as-economic-slowdown-worries-offsets-tight-supplies-weak-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil steady as economic slowdown worries offsets tight supplies, weak dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday as the market balances fears that an economic slowdown will hit oil demand against tight supply and a weaker U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures for September delivery fell 14 cents, or 0.1%, to $106.13 a barrel by 10:48 a.m. EDT (1448 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for August fell 27 cents, or 0.3%, to $102.33.<\/p>\n<p>The August WTI contract expires on Wednesday. The more actively traded September contract was down 38 cents to $99.04 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, both front-month contracts rose by over 5% in the biggest daily percentage gain for Brent since mid-April and WTI since mid-May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday as the market balances fears that an economic slowdown will hit oil demand against tight supply and a weaker U.S. dollar. Brent futures for September delivery fell 14 cents, or 0.1%, to $106.13 a barrel by 10:48 a.m. EDT (1448 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for August fell 27 cents, or 0.3%, to $102.33. The August WTI contract expires on Wednesday. The more actively traded September contract was down 38 cents to $99.04 a barrel. On Monday, both front-month contracts rose by over 5% in the biggest [&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-506972","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\/506972","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=506972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}