{"id":259459,"date":"2019-02-18T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259459"},"modified":"2019-02-18T05:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:34:02","slug":"oil-prices-hit-3-month-high-on-opec-cuts-us-sanctions-on-iran-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-hit-3-month-high-on-opec-cuts-us-sanctions-on-iran-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices hit 3-month high on Opec cuts, US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose to their highest levels since November last year on Monday, lifted by Opec-led supply cuts and US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures pushed through $56 per barrel for the first time this year, hitting $56.13 a barrel before edging back to $56.02 a barrel by 0112 GMT, still up 0.8 per cent from their last settlement. <\/p>\n<p>International Brent crude futures hit a high of $66.78 per barrel before easing to $66.65 per barrel, up 0.6 per cent from their last close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose to their highest levels since November last year on Monday, lifted by Opec-led supply cuts and US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures pushed through $56 per barrel for the first time this year, hitting $56.13 a barrel before edging back to $56.02 a barrel by 0112 GMT, still up 0.8 per cent from their last settlement. International Brent crude futures hit a high of $66.78 per barrel before easing to $66.65 per barrel, up 0.6 per cent from their last close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}