{"id":600577,"date":"2023-08-31T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600577"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:02:19","slug":"global-oil-prices-up-due-to-tighter-supply-china-economy-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-oil-prices-up-due-to-tighter-supply-china-economy-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Global oil prices up due to tighter supply, China economy in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices were up in early trade on Thursday backed by tighter U.S. supply, with a focus on China factory activity due later in the day amid recent weak economic expansion data in the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures contract for October and which expires on Thursday was up 14 cents, or 0.16 per cent, at $86 per barrel and the more active November contract was up 10 cents, or 0.12 per cent, at $85.34 at 0039 GMT. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 10 cents, or 0.13 per cent, to $81.74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices were up in early trade on Thursday backed by tighter U.S. supply, with a focus on China factory activity due later in the day amid recent weak economic expansion data in the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy. Brent crude futures contract for October and which expires on Thursday was up 14 cents, or 0.16 per cent, at $86 per barrel and the more active November contract was up 10 cents, or 0.12 per cent, at $85.34 at 0039 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 10 cents, or 0.13 per cent, to $81.74.<\/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-600577","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\/600577","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=600577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}