{"id":267609,"date":"2019-04-02T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T06:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=267609"},"modified":"2019-04-02T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T06:33:34","slug":"oil-rises-on-iran-sanctions-threat-venezuela-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-on-iran-sanctions-threat-venezuela-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises on Iran sanctions threat, Venezuela shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: OilNSE 0.11 % prices rose to fresh highs for the year on Tuesday, after a US official said Washington is considering more sanctions on Iran and a key Venezuelan export terminal halted operations. <\/p>\n<p>Price were also underpinned by a Reuters survey showing Opec oil supply sank to a four-year low in March, and positive data from the world&#8217;s biggest economies, the United States and China. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude rose 26 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $69.27 a barrel by 0025 GMT, having earlier touched $69.29, a new high for 2019. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures rose 28 cents, or 0.5 per cent to $61.87 a barrel, earlier reaching $61.89, also a new high for 2019. WTI closed up 2.4 per cent on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: OilNSE 0.11 % prices rose to fresh highs for the year on Tuesday, after a US official said Washington is considering more sanctions on Iran and a key Venezuelan export terminal halted operations. Price were also underpinned by a Reuters survey showing Opec oil supply sank to a four-year low in March, and positive data from the world&#8217;s biggest economies, the United States and China. Brent crude rose 26 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $69.27 a barrel by 0025 GMT, having earlier touched $69.29, a new high for 2019. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures rose 28 cents, [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267609","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=267609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}