{"id":279236,"date":"2019-06-21T05:14:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279236"},"modified":"2019-06-21T05:14:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:14:35","slug":"oil-rises-3-to-63-after-iran-shoots-down-us-drone-raising-conflict-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-3-to-63-after-iran-shoots-down-us-drone-raising-conflict-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises 3% to $63 after Iran shoots down US drone raising conflict fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose by more than 3% to above $63 a barrel on Thursday after Iran shot down a US military drone, raising fears of a military confrontation between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations that the US Federal Reserve could cut interest rates at its next meeting, stimulating growth in the world&#8217;s largest oil-consuming country, and a drop in US crude inventories, also provided support to prices.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude, the global benchmark, was up $1.73 at $63.55 a barrel at 1218 GMT, having earlier gained 3.3% to $63.88. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.84 to $55.60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose by more than 3% to above $63 a barrel on Thursday after Iran shot down a US military drone, raising fears of a military confrontation between Tehran and Washington. Expectations that the US Federal Reserve could cut interest rates at its next meeting, stimulating growth in the world&#8217;s largest oil-consuming country, and a drop in US crude inventories, also provided support to prices. Brent crude, the global benchmark, was up $1.73 at $63.55 a barrel at 1218 GMT, having earlier gained 3.3% to $63.88. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.84 to $55.60.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279236","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\/279236","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=279236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}