{"id":278593,"date":"2019-06-14T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278593"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:31:13","slug":"oil-prices-rise-for-second-day-after-tanker-attacks-in-gulf-of-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-for-second-day-after-tanker-attacks-in-gulf-of-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise for second day after tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose for a second day on Friday, extending sharp gains following attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman that stoked concerns of reduced crude flows through one of the world&#8217;s key shipping routes. <\/p>\n<p>The attacks near Iran and the Strait of Hormuz pushed oil prices up as much as 4.5% on Thursday, putting the brakes on a slide in prices in recent weeks over concerns about global demand. <\/p>\n<p>It was the second time in a month tankers have been attacked in the world&#8217;s most important zone for oil supplies, amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran. Washington quickly blamed Iran for Thursday&#8217;s attacks, but Tehran denied the allegation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose for a second day on Friday, extending sharp gains following attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman that stoked concerns of reduced crude flows through one of the world&#8217;s key shipping routes. The attacks near Iran and the Strait of Hormuz pushed oil prices up as much as 4.5% on Thursday, putting the brakes on a slide in prices in recent weeks over concerns about global demand. It was the second time in a month tankers have been attacked in the world&#8217;s most important zone for oil supplies, amid rising tensions between the United States [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278593","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=278593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}