{"id":281569,"date":"2019-07-11T06:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281569"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:02:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:02:06","slug":"us-oil-hits-highest-in-over-a-month-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-iran-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-oil-hits-highest-in-over-a-month-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-iran-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"US oil hits highest in over a month amid Gulf of Mexico storm, Iran tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: US oil futures hit their highest in over a month on Thursday as a potential hurricane threatened crude output in the Gulf of Mexico and as an incident involving a British tanker in the Middle East highlighted ongoing tensions there. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 11 cents at $60.54 a barrel by 0055 GMT, after earlier touching the highest since May 23 at $60.63. They gained 4.5 per cent in the previous session. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were down 5 cents, or 0.1 per cent, at $66.96 a barrel, after ending Wednesday up 4.4 per cent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: US oil futures hit their highest in over a month on Thursday as a potential hurricane threatened crude output in the Gulf of Mexico and as an incident involving a British tanker in the Middle East highlighted ongoing tensions there. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 11 cents at $60.54 a barrel by 0055 GMT, after earlier touching the highest since May 23 at $60.63. They gained 4.5 per cent in the previous session. Brent crude futures were down 5 cents, or 0.1 per cent, at $66.96 a barrel, after ending Wednesday up 4.4 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-281569","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\/281569","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}