{"id":308983,"date":"2020-01-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308983"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:41:01","slug":"oil-surges-after-trump-threatens-iraq-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-surges-after-trump-threatens-iraq-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil surges after Trump threatens Iraq sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices shot more than 2 per cent higher on Monday, with Brent rising above $70 a barrel, after US President Donald Trump issued a threat to impose sanctions on Iraq amid escalating tensions with Iran in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures soared to a high of $70.27 a barrel at 0222 GMT, up $1.67, or 2.4 per cent, from Friday&#8217;s settlement.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $64.39 a barrel, up $1.34, or 2.1 per cent, after touching $64.44 earlier, the highest since April.<\/p>\n<p>The gains extended Friday&#8217;s more-than-3 per cent surge after a US air strike in Iraq killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Friday. The killing has heightened concerns of a widening Middle East conflict that could disrupt oil supplies from a region that accounts for nearly half of the world&#8217;s oil production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices shot more than 2 per cent higher on Monday, with Brent rising above $70 a barrel, after US President Donald Trump issued a threat to impose sanctions on Iraq amid escalating tensions with Iran in the Middle East. Brent crude futures soared to a high of $70.27 a barrel at 0222 GMT, up $1.67, or 2.4 per cent, from Friday&#8217;s settlement. US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $64.39 a barrel, up $1.34, or 2.1 per cent, after touching $64.44 earlier, the highest since April. The gains extended Friday&#8217;s more-than-3 per cent surge after a US air strike [&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-308983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308983","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=308983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}