{"id":291767,"date":"2019-09-16T06:39:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291767"},"modified":"2019-09-16T06:39:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:39:26","slug":"oil-surges-stock-futures-slip-after-attack-on-saudi-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-surges-stock-futures-slip-after-attack-on-saudi-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil surges, stock futures slip after attack on Saudi facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged to four-month highs on Monday while Wall Street futures fell and safe-haven bets returned after weekend attacks on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s crude facilities knocked out more than 5 per cent of global oil supply.<\/p>\n<p>US crude futures were last up 11 per cent at $61.10 a barrel, coming off highs on expectations other global oil suppliers would step in to lift output. Brent crude soared 13 per cent at $68.06 after earlier rising to $71.95.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthi rebel group had claimed responsibility for the attack, which hit the world&#8217;s biggest oil-processing facility, but a senior US official told presspersons on Sunday that evidence indicated Tehran was behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged to four-month highs on Monday while Wall Street futures fell and safe-haven bets returned after weekend attacks on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s crude facilities knocked out more than 5 per cent of global oil supply. US crude futures were last up 11 per cent at $61.10 a barrel, coming off highs on expectations other global oil suppliers would step in to lift output. Brent crude soared 13 per cent at $68.06 after earlier rising to $71.95. Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthi rebel group had claimed responsibility for the attack, which hit the world&#8217;s biggest oil-processing facility, but a senior US official [&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-291767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291767","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=291767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}