{"id":629602,"date":"2024-01-20T11:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=629602"},"modified":"2024-01-20T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:34:54","slug":"oil-heads-for-weekly-gain-supported-by-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-heads-for-weekly-gain-supported-by-middle-east-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil heads for weekly gain, supported by Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK -Oil prices were little changed on Friday but headed for a weekly gain, as Middle East tensions and disruptions to oil output offset concerns about the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures were up a cent to $79.11 a barrel at 11:41 a.m. (1641 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 9 cents to $73.99.<\/p>\n<p>For the week, the U.S. benchmark is on track to rise about 2% while Brent is set to gain about 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK -Oil prices were little changed on Friday but headed for a weekly gain, as Middle East tensions and disruptions to oil output offset concerns about the global economy. Brent futures were up a cent to $79.11 a barrel at 11:41 a.m. (1641 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 9 cents to $73.99. For the week, the U.S. benchmark is on track to rise about 2% while Brent is set to gain about 1%.<\/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-629602","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\/629602","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=629602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}