{"id":274897,"date":"2019-05-17T04:57:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274897"},"modified":"2019-05-17T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T05:13:00","slug":"oil-prices-gain-2-moves-towards-73-on-heightened-tensions-in-west-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-gain-2-moves-towards-73-on-heightened-tensions-in-west-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices gain 2%, moves towards $73 on heightened tensions in West Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped 2% on Thursday as tensions in the West Asia grew, with a Saudi-led coalition launching air strikes in retaliation for recent attacks on its oil infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up $1.53, or 2.1%, at $73.30 a barrel by 11:58 a.m. (1558 GMT); it touched its highest level in three weeks. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained $1.35, or 2.2%, to $63.37 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen carried out several air strikes on the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday after the Iranian-aligned movement claimed responsibility for drone attacks on two Saudi oil pumping stations earlier in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped 2% on Thursday as tensions in the West Asia grew, with a Saudi-led coalition launching air strikes in retaliation for recent attacks on its oil infrastructure. Brent crude futures were up $1.53, or 2.1%, at $73.30 a barrel by 11:58 a.m. (1558 GMT); it touched its highest level in three weeks. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained $1.35, or 2.2%, to $63.37 a barrel. The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen carried out several air strikes on the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday after the Iranian-aligned movement claimed responsibility for drone attacks on two Saudi oil [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274897","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\/274897","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=274897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}