{"id":535172,"date":"2022-11-09T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535172"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:55:19","slug":"oil-prices-fall-in-choppy-trade-on-account-of-mixed-china-covid-19-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-in-choppy-trade-on-account-of-mixed-china-covid-19-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall in choppy trade on account of mixed China Covid-19 signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Monday, paring gains after rising to more than two-month highs, on mixed signals over China, the world&#8217;s top crude importer, potentially relaxing its strict COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures fell 65 cents to settle at $97.92 a barrel. Earlier in the session, they rose to a session high of $99.56 a barrel, the highest since Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude dropped 82 cents to settle at $91.79. It earlier rose 74 cents to a session high of $93.74 a barrel, the highest since Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Prices climbed during the session on news that Chinese leaders are considering reopening the economy from strict COVID-19 restrictions but are proceeding slowly and have set no timeline, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Monday, paring gains after rising to more than two-month highs, on mixed signals over China, the world&#8217;s top crude importer, potentially relaxing its strict COVID-19 restrictions. Brent crude futures fell 65 cents to settle at $97.92 a barrel. Earlier in the session, they rose to a session high of $99.56 a barrel, the highest since Aug. 31. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude dropped 82 cents to settle at $91.79. It earlier rose 74 cents to a session high of $93.74 a barrel, the highest since Aug. 30. Prices climbed during the session on news that Chinese [&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-535172","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\/535172","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=535172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}