{"id":32918,"date":"2020-08-20T00:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=32918"},"modified":"2020-08-20T00:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:30:14","slug":"oil-continues-to-struggle-for-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/oil-continues-to-struggle-for-direction\/08\/20\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Continues to Struggle for Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oil prices closed lower on Wednesday after data showed a decline in the US crude inventories, which came below market expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brent crude futures for October delivery declined by 9 cents, or 0.2%, and settled at $45.37 per barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures for September delivery rose by 4 cents, or 0.1%, and finished at $42.93 per barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, data by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed a decline in the US crude oil stockpiles by of 1.6 million barrels last week to a total of 512.5 million barrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices closed lower on Wednesday after data showed a decline in the US crude inventories, which came below market expectations. Brent crude futures for October delivery declined by 9 cents, or 0.2%, and settled at $45.37 per barrel. Meanwhile, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures for September delivery rose by 4 cents, or 0.1%, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,36],"tags":[6846],"class_list":["post-32918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-commodities-news","category-market-updates","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32919,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918\/revisions\/32919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}