{"id":7916,"date":"2024-08-17T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T10:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:22:46","slug":"oil-prices-decline-amid-weaker-demand-outlook-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=7916","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Decline Amid Weaker Demand Outlook from China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=66854\">Oil prices<\/a> dropped by around two percent at the close of trading, driven by diminishing investor expectations for demand growth from China, the world&#8217;s largest oil importer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brent crude futures fell by $1.36, or 1.7 percent, to settle at $79.68 per barrel. Meanwhile, U.S. <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=West%20Texas%20Intermediate\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Texas Intermediate<\/a> (WTI) crude futures declined by $1.51, or 1.9 percent, to $76.65 per barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of last week, Brent crude had settled at $79.66 per barrel, while WTI finished at $76.84 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices dropped by around two percent at the close of trading, driven by diminishing investor expectations for demand growth from China, the world&#8217;s largest oil importer. Brent crude futures fell by $1.36, or 1.7 percent, to settle at $79.68 per barrel. Meanwhile, U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures declined by $1.51, or 1.9 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72339,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions\/72339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}