{"id":545302,"date":"2022-12-29T11:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T05:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=545302"},"modified":"2022-12-29T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T05:33:24","slug":"oil-prices-fall-on-worries-about-china-covid-surge-global-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-on-worries-about-china-covid-surge-global-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall on worries about China COVID surge, global recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Wednesday on concerns that rising COVID-19 cases in China, the world&#8217;s top oil importer, will disrupt its economic recovery and fuel demand growth as it unwinds its pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures for February delivery fell 78 cents, or 0.9%, to $83.55 a barrel, by 0900 GMT. U.S. crude fell 75 cents, or 0.9%, to $78.78 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Wednesday on concerns that rising COVID-19 cases in China, the world&#8217;s top oil importer, will disrupt its economic recovery and fuel demand growth as it unwinds its pandemic restrictions. Brent futures for February delivery fell 78 cents, or 0.9%, to $83.55 a barrel, by 0900 GMT. U.S. crude fell 75 cents, or 0.9%, to $78.78 per 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-545302","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\/545302","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=545302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}