{"id":308776,"date":"2020-01-04T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308776"},"modified":"2020-01-04T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:06:59","slug":"oil-prices-surge-wall-street-stocks-tumble-after-us-kills-iranian-general-qassem-soleimani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-surge-wall-street-stocks-tumble-after-us-kills-iranian-general-qassem-soleimani\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge, Wall Street stocks tumble after US kills Iranian general Qassem Soleimani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices are up sharply and major stock markets are falling after US forces in Iraq killed a top Iranian general. The price of oil surged 3.5 per cent and major indexes were down 0.8 per cent in early trading . The drops came after a bullish start to the New Year and a blockbuster gain in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>News of the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani prompted expectations of Iranian retaliation. The S&amp;P 500 fell 25 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 3,232. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 224 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 28,640. The Nasdaq lost 77 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 9,013. Bond prices rose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices are up sharply and major stock markets are falling after US forces in Iraq killed a top Iranian general. The price of oil surged 3.5 per cent and major indexes were down 0.8 per cent in early trading . The drops came after a bullish start to the New Year and a blockbuster gain in 2019. News of the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani prompted expectations of Iranian retaliation. The S&amp;P 500 fell 25 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 3,232. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 224 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 28,640. The [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308776","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=308776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}