{"id":597864,"date":"2023-08-16T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=597864"},"modified":"2023-08-16T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:46:45","slug":"oil-prices-steady-as-markets-weigh-weak-china-data-tighter-crude-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-steady-as-markets-weigh-weak-china-data-tighter-crude-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices steady as markets weigh weak China data, tighter crude supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices held steady in early trading on Wednesday after a 1% drop in the previous session, as markets weighed weak economic data from China, the world&#8217;s biggest oil importer, against tightening U.S. crude supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 3 cents to $84.92 a barrel at 0001 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) rose 5 cents $81.04. Both benchmarks had weakened to their lowest since Aug. 8 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices held steady in early trading on Wednesday after a 1% drop in the previous session, as markets weighed weak economic data from China, the world&#8217;s biggest oil importer, against tightening U.S. crude supplies. Brent crude futures rose 3 cents to $84.92 a barrel at 0001 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) rose 5 cents $81.04. Both benchmarks had weakened to their lowest since Aug. 8 on Tuesday.<\/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-597864","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\/597864","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=597864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}