{"id":41454,"date":"2021-02-13T01:38:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=41454"},"modified":"2021-02-13T01:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T21:38:51","slug":"oil-prices-extend-weekly-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/oil-prices-extend-weekly-gains\/02\/13\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Extend Weekly Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oil prices rose on Friday, supported by geopolitical tensions raising concerns about crude supplies from the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brent crude&nbsp;futures for April delivery gained $1.29, or 2.1%, to close at $62.43 per barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the week, the global benchmark crude most active contracts gained 5.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for March delivery&nbsp;rose by $1.23, or 2.1%, to finish at $59.47 per barrel, rising by 4.6% for the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, the weekly report by Baker Hughes showed that the number of active rigs drilling for oil in the United States increased by 7 to 306 this week, rising for the 12th consecutive week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday, supported by geopolitical tensions raising concerns about crude supplies from the Middle East. Brent crude&nbsp;futures for April delivery gained $1.29, or 2.1%, to close at $62.43 per barrel. For the week, the global benchmark crude most active contracts gained 5.2%. Meanwhile, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for March &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-41454","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\/41454","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=41454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41455,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41454\/revisions\/41455"}],"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=41454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}