{"id":278626,"date":"2019-06-17T04:56:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T04:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278626"},"modified":"2019-06-17T04:56:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T04:56:38","slug":"oil-prices-rise-for-second-day-after-middle-east-tanker-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-for-second-day-after-middle-east-tanker-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise for second day after Middle East tanker attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: 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>Tokyo: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278626","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}