{"id":309025,"date":"2020-01-06T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309025"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T07:14:09","slug":"oil-prices-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices soared more than four per cent on Friday following news that the US had killed head of Iran\u2019s Quds Force Qasem Soleimani, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region. Brent surged 4.4 per cent to USD 69.16 and WTI jumped 4.3 per cent to USD 63.84 as investors grow increasingly worried about the effects of a possible flare-up in the tinderbox Middle East on supplies of the commodity.  Both contracts later pared the gains but remained well up. Oil prices saw a record surge in September after attacks on two Saudi Arabian facilities briefly slashed output in the world\u2019s top exporter by half. <\/p>\n<p>The killing of the top Iranian general sent investors rushing for the hills and safe-haven units rallied with the yen up 0.7 per cent against the dollar and gold climbing more than one percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices soared more than four per cent on Friday following news that the US had killed head of Iran\u2019s Quds Force Qasem Soleimani, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region. Brent surged 4.4 per cent to USD 69.16 and WTI jumped 4.3 per cent to USD 63.84 as investors grow increasingly worried about the effects of a possible flare-up in the tinderbox Middle East on supplies of the commodity. Both contracts later pared the gains but remained well up. Oil prices saw a record surge in September after attacks on two Saudi Arabian facilities briefly slashed [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309025","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=309025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}