{"id":635623,"date":"2024-02-21T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=635623"},"modified":"2024-02-21T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T06:48:55","slug":"crude-oil-hovers-near-3-week-high-on-tensions-in-west-asia-china-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-hovers-near-3-week-high-on-tensions-in-west-asia-china-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil hovers near 3-week high on tensions in West Asia, China demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday but remained near three-week highs on heightened Middle East tensions and as China showed some signs of economic recovery. <\/p>\n<p>Brent futures dipped 29 cents or 0.35% to $83.27 a barrel by 0912 GMT. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for April delivery fell 38 cents, or 0.38%, to $78.08 a barrel. The March WTI contract rose 8 cents or 0.1% to $79.27 a barrel ahead of its expiry during the session. <\/p>\n<p>There was no settlement for WTI on Monday due to a U.S. public holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday but remained near three-week highs on heightened Middle East tensions and as China showed some signs of economic recovery. Brent futures dipped 29 cents or 0.35% to $83.27 a barrel by 0912 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for April delivery fell 38 cents, or 0.38%, to $78.08 a barrel. The March WTI contract rose 8 cents or 0.1% to $79.27 a barrel ahead of its expiry during the session. There was no settlement for WTI on Monday due to a U.S. public holiday.<\/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-635623","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\/635623","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=635623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}