{"id":308981,"date":"2020-01-06T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308981"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:40:36","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-up-for-4th-straight-day-as-us-strike-roils-oil-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-up-for-4th-straight-day-as-us-strike-roils-oil-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices up for 4th straight day as US strike roils oil market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel prices rose for the fourth straight day on Sunday as global oil prices jumped after the US killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of conflict in the crude-rich Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Retail pump price of petrol was hiked by 9 paise per litre and that of diesel by 11 paise, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 75.54 per litre &#8212; the highest in more than a year, while a litre of diesel comes for Rs 68.51.<\/p>\n<p>While global stock markets were mixed following the US killing of Qasem Soleimani, oil prices jumped more than 3 per cent on Friday. Oil markets will reopen on Monday after the weekend break. The killing of Soleimani represents \u201ca significant spike in geopolitical risks and could lead to a direct confrontation between the US and Iran,\u201d Oxford Economics said in a commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel prices rose for the fourth straight day on Sunday as global oil prices jumped after the US killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of conflict in the crude-rich Middle East. Retail pump price of petrol was hiked by 9 paise per litre and that of diesel by 11 paise, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 75.54 per litre &#8212; the highest in more than a year, while a litre of diesel comes for Rs 68.51. While global stock markets were mixed following the US killing of [&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-308981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308981","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=308981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}