{"id":518769,"date":"2022-09-02T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518769"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:05:21","slug":"oil-slides-as-china-lockdowns-stoke-demand-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-slides-as-china-lockdowns-stoke-demand-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil slides as China lockdowns stoke demand fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices tumbled by 2% on Thursday, as new COVID-19 lockdown measures in China added to worries that high inflation and interest rate hikes are denting fuel demand.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures fell $1.95, or 2%, to $93.69 a barrel by 1341 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures slid $1.98, or 2.2%, to $87.57 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices tumbled by 2% on Thursday, as new COVID-19 lockdown measures in China added to worries that high inflation and interest rate hikes are denting fuel demand. Brent crude futures fell $1.95, or 2%, to $93.69 a barrel by 1341 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures slid $1.98, or 2.2%, to $87.57 a barrel.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518769","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=518769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}