{"id":639907,"date":"2024-03-27T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=639907"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T07:15:20","slug":"oil-prices-fall-for-a-second-day-as-us-crude-inventories-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-for-a-second-day-as-us-crude-inventories-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall for a second day as US crude inventories increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell for a second day on Wednesday after a report that crude stockpiles in the U.S., the world&#8217;s biggest oil user, surged and on signs major producers are unlikely to change their output policy at a technical meeting next week.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for May dropped 69 cents, or 0.8%, to $85.56 a barrel at 0150 GMT. The May contract is set to to expire on Thursday and the more actively traded June contract declined 60 cents, or 0.7%, at $85.03.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell for a second day on Wednesday after a report that crude stockpiles in the U.S., the world&#8217;s biggest oil user, surged and on signs major producers are unlikely to change their output policy at a technical meeting next week. Brent crude futures for May dropped 69 cents, or 0.8%, to $85.56 a barrel at 0150 GMT. The May contract is set to to expire on Thursday and the more actively traded June contract declined 60 cents, or 0.7%, at $85.03.<\/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-639907","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\/639907","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=639907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}