{"id":309098,"date":"2020-01-07T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309098"},"modified":"2020-01-07T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:22:57","slug":"oil-linked-stocks-trade-weak-as-oil-prices-continue-to-surge-hpcl-down-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-linked-stocks-trade-weak-as-oil-prices-continue-to-surge-hpcl-down-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil-linked stocks trade weak as oil prices continue to surge; HPCL down 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of oil &amp; gas companies, tyre, paint, and aviation firms were under pressure on Monday as oil prices continued to surge 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>At 09:40 am, Brent crude futures were trading 2.70 per cent higher at 70.45 USD\/bbl while WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) were trading at 64.54 USD\/bbl, up over 2 per cent. The gains extended Friday\u2019s 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\u2019s oil production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of oil &amp; gas companies, tyre, paint, and aviation firms were under pressure on Monday as oil prices continued to surge after US President Donald Trump issued a threat to impose sanctions on Iraq amid escalating tensions with Iran in the Middle East. At 09:40 am, Brent crude futures were trading 2.70 per cent higher at 70.45 USD\/bbl while WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) were trading at 64.54 USD\/bbl, up over 2 per cent. The gains extended Friday\u2019s more-than-3 per cent surge after a US air strike in Iraq killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Friday. The killing has [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309098","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=309098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}