{"id":38928,"date":"2020-12-22T01:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=38928"},"modified":"2020-12-22T01:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:19:33","slug":"oil-prices-decline-on-coronavirus-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/oil-prices-decline-on-coronavirus-concerns\/12\/22\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Decline on Coronavirus Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oil prices declined on Monday, on the back of renewed concerns about a new variant of the novel Coronavirus that caused a global pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New lockdown measures could sharply impact the demand for oil, which is driving investors\u2019 worries across the markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brent crude&nbsp;futures for February delivery closed lower by $1.35, or 2.6%, at $50.91 per barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for February delivery fell by $1.27, or 2.6%, to finish at $47.97 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices declined on Monday, on the back of renewed concerns about a new variant of the novel Coronavirus that caused a global pandemic. New lockdown measures could sharply impact the demand for oil, which is driving investors\u2019 worries across the markets. Brent crude&nbsp;futures for February delivery closed lower by $1.35, or 2.6%, at $50.91 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32221,"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-38928","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\/38928","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=38928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38929,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38928\/revisions\/38929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}