{"id":309149,"date":"2020-01-07T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309149"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:16:45","slug":"fuel-prices-head-north-as-global-crude-jumps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-prices-head-north-as-global-crude-jumps-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices head north as global crude jumps 2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Local rates of petrol and diesel, already at a 13-month high, are poised to rise further as crude oil advanced another 2% to inch closer to $71a barrel on Monday. Oil futures climbed to $70.74 as traders weighed every aggressive comment from both US and Iran that kept pushing up probabilities of a wider conflict in the world\u2019s largest oil producing and exporting region, and bolstering fears of a supply disruption.<\/p>\n<p>What added to the market&#8217;s worry was US President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to impose heavy sanctions against Iraq if American troops were forced to leave OPEC\u2019s second-biggest producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Local rates of petrol and diesel, already at a 13-month high, are poised to rise further as crude oil advanced another 2% to inch closer to $71a barrel on Monday. Oil futures climbed to $70.74 as traders weighed every aggressive comment from both US and Iran that kept pushing up probabilities of a wider conflict in the world\u2019s largest oil producing and exporting region, and bolstering fears of a supply disruption. What added to the market&#8217;s worry was US President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to impose heavy sanctions against Iraq if American troops were forced to leave OPEC\u2019s second-biggest [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309149","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=309149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}