{"id":284013,"date":"2019-07-23T07:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284013"},"modified":"2019-07-23T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:19:12","slug":"oil-rises-more-than-2-after-iran-seizes-british-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-more-than-2-after-iran-seizes-british-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises more than 2% after Iran seizes British tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose more than 2 per cent on Monday on concerns that Iran&#8217;s seizure of a British tanker last week may lead to supply disruptions in the energy-rich Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures climbed $1.41, or 2.26 per cent, to $63.88 a barrel by 0840 GMT. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up $1.13, or 2.03 per cent, at $56.76 a barrel. Last week, WTI fell over 7 per cent and Brent lost more than 6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions surrounding Iran \u201chave likely added to the already strong geopolitical risk premium\u201d, JBC Energy said in a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose more than 2 per cent on Monday on concerns that Iran&#8217;s seizure of a British tanker last week may lead to supply disruptions in the energy-rich Gulf. Brent crude futures climbed $1.41, or 2.26 per cent, to $63.88 a barrel by 0840 GMT. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up $1.13, or 2.03 per cent, at $56.76 a barrel. Last week, WTI fell over 7 per cent and Brent lost more than 6 per cent. Tensions surrounding Iran \u201chave likely added to the already strong geopolitical risk premium\u201d, JBC Energy said in a note.<\/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-284013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284013","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=284013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}