{"id":42151,"date":"2021-02-27T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=42151"},"modified":"2021-02-27T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:00:17","slug":"oil-prices-close-lower-but-score-monthly-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/oil-prices-close-lower-but-score-monthly-gains\/02\/27\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Close Lower but Score Monthly Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oil prices declined on Friday, amid a rise by the U.S. Dollar (USD) and expectations for deciding on an increase in output during the upcoming OPEC+ summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brent crude futures for April delivery declined by 75 cents, or 1.1%, to close at $66.13 per barrel, while May futures plunged by $1.69, or 2.6%, to $64.42 per barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the month, the global benchmark futures rose by about 18%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for April delivery finished lower by $2.03, or 3.2%, at $61.50 per barrel, rising by about 18% on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices declined on Friday, amid a rise by the U.S. Dollar (USD) and expectations for deciding on an increase in output during the upcoming OPEC+ summit. Brent crude futures for April delivery declined by 75 cents, or 1.1%, to close at $66.13 per barrel, while May futures plunged by $1.69, or 2.6%, to $64.42 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34232,"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-42151","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\/42151","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=42151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42152,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42151\/revisions\/42152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}