{"id":1558966,"date":"2022-07-18T07:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558966"},"modified":"2022-07-18T07:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:20:38","slug":"oil-jumps-after-biden-fails-to-win-saudi-pledge-to-pump-more-crude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oil-jumps-after-biden-fails-to-win-saudi-pledge-to-pump-more-crude\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Jumps After Biden Fails to Win Saudi Pledge to Pump More Crude"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foil-jumps-after-biden-fails-to-win-saudi-pledge-to-pump-more-crude%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-oil\">Oil<\/a> prices rose on July 18 as the U.S. dollar softened and after President Joe Biden wrapped up his trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-saudi-arabia\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, failing to secure a pledge from the Middle Eastern country to boost crude output.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for September settlement rose $2.42, or 2.4 percent, to $103.58 a barrel by 5:30 a.m. New York time on July 18, after a 2.1 percent gain on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for August delivery gained $2.04, or 2.09 percent, to $99.64 a barrel, after climbing 1.9 percent in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, both Brent and WTI posted their biggest weekly drops in about a month as recession fears dented market sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Yet oil supplies remained tight and the U.S. dollar has eased off recent highs, with both factors offering support to crude prices.<\/p>\n<p>The greenback weakened on Monday after hitting multi-decade highs against a basket of currency peers last week. The DXY dollar index touched nearly 109 on July 14, before easing to 107.3 by 6:36 a.m. New York time on July 18.<\/p>\n<p>A weaker dollar tends to support oil prices and other dollar denominated commodities as it makes them a more attractive buy for holders of other currencies.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts said that Monday\u2019s oil rally is unlikely to last, with high inflation maintaining pressure on central banks to keep tightening even in the face of growing signals of an economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBear market bounce,\u201d is how Keith McCullough, CEO of investment research firm Hedgeye, described Monday\u2019s moves in crude, in\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithMcCullough\/status\/1548960597647233026\">post on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by a weaker greenback, other commodities rose on Monday, including wheat and copper. A key industrial input, copper is seen by many analysts as a barometer of a recession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother good example of a crashing market that\u2019s bouncing this morning,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithMcCullough\/status\/1548961334460645376\">McCullough<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on July 18 as the U.S. dollar softened and after President Joe Biden wrapped up his trip to Saudi Arabia, failing to secure a pledge from the Middle Eastern country to boost crude output. Brent crude futures for September settlement rose $2.42, or 2.4 percent, to $103.58 a barrel by 5:30 a.m. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}