{"id":646630,"date":"2025-09-17T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646630"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:02:46","slug":"oil-prices-hold-steady-as-markets-await-fed-rate-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-hold-steady-as-markets-await-fed-rate-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices hold steady as markets await Fed rate decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices held steady in early trading on Wednesday, after rising more than 1% in the previous session on drone attacks on Russian ports and refineries, while traders awaited an expected rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures dropped 1 cent to $68.46 a barrel by 0114 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures also fell 1 cent to $64.51 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices held steady in early trading on Wednesday, after rising more than 1% in the previous session on drone attacks on Russian ports and refineries, while traders awaited an expected rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Brent crude futures dropped 1 cent to $68.46 a barrel by 0114 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures also fell 1 cent to $64.51 a barrel.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646630","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\/646630","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=646630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}