{"id":528621,"date":"2022-10-11T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=528621"},"modified":"2022-10-11T12:15:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T06:45:39","slug":"oil-prices-inch-lower-as-dollar-firms-china-covid-worries-dent-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-inch-lower-as-dollar-firms-china-covid-worries-dent-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices inch lower as dollar firms; China Covid worries dent demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid on Tuesday, extending losses of nearly 2 per cent in the previous session, as a stronger US dollar and a flare-up in Covid-19 cases in China raised concerns of slowing global demand. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures fell 27 cents, or 0.3 per cent, to $95.92 a barrel by 0342 GMT, after falling $1.73 in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $90.73 a barrel, down 40 cents, or 0.4 per cent, after losing $1.51 in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar gained on Tuesday, with worries about rising interest rates and geopolitical tensions unsettling investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid on Tuesday, extending losses of nearly 2 per cent in the previous session, as a stronger US dollar and a flare-up in Covid-19 cases in China raised concerns of slowing global demand. Brent crude futures fell 27 cents, or 0.3 per cent, to $95.92 a barrel by 0342 GMT, after falling $1.73 in the previous session. US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $90.73 a barrel, down 40 cents, or 0.4 per cent, after losing $1.51 in the previous session. The dollar gained on Tuesday, with worries about rising interest rates and geopolitical tensions unsettling investors.<\/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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528621","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=528621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}