{"id":308564,"date":"2020-01-03T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308564"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T06:12:08","slug":"oil-prices-jump-1-after-us-air-strike-kills-iran-iraq-military-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-jump-1-after-us-air-strike-kills-iran-iraq-military-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices jump $1 after US air strike kills Iran, Iraq military personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped more than $1 on Friday after a US air strike killed key Iranian and Iraqi military personnel, raising concerns that escalating Middle East tensions may disrupt oil supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were at $67.48 a barrel, up $1.23, or 1.86 per cent, by 0202 GMT, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose $1.03, or 1.68 per cent, to $62.21 a barrel. \u201cThe supply side risks remain elevated in West Asia and we could see tensions continue to elevate between the US and Iran-backed militia in Iraq,\u201d Edward Moya, analyst at brokerage OANDA, spoke to Reuters via email.<\/p>\n<p>An air strike at the Baghdad International Airport early on Friday killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi militia spokesman told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped more than $1 on Friday after a US air strike killed key Iranian and Iraqi military personnel, raising concerns that escalating Middle East tensions may disrupt oil supplies. Brent crude futures were at $67.48 a barrel, up $1.23, or 1.86 per cent, by 0202 GMT, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose $1.03, or 1.68 per cent, to $62.21 a barrel. \u201cThe supply side risks remain elevated in West Asia and we could see tensions continue to elevate between the US and Iran-backed militia in Iraq,\u201d Edward Moya, analyst at brokerage OANDA, spoke to Reuters via [&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-308564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308564","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=308564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}