{"id":540165,"date":"2022-12-02T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=540165"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:35:41","slug":"oil-prices-edge-higher-on-easing-covid-curbs-in-china-firm-dollar-limits-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-edge-higher-on-easing-covid-curbs-in-china-firm-dollar-limits-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices edge higher on easing Covid curbs in China, firm dollar limits gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Oil prices inched higher in Asian trade on Friday on hopes for further relaxation of Covid curbs in China, which could help demand recover in world&#8217;s second biggest economy, though a firmer US dollar capped gains.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up 20 cents or 0.23% at $87.08 per barrel by 0349 GMT, after earlier falling to $86.59.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 6 cents or 0.07% to $81.28 per barrel, after slipping to $80.88 earlier in the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Oil prices inched higher in Asian trade on Friday on hopes for further relaxation of Covid curbs in China, which could help demand recover in world&#8217;s second biggest economy, though a firmer US dollar capped gains. Brent crude futures were up 20 cents or 0.23% at $87.08 per barrel by 0349 GMT, after earlier falling to $86.59. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 6 cents or 0.07% to $81.28 per barrel, after slipping to $80.88 earlier in the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540165","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}