{"id":309195,"date":"2020-01-07T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309195"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:30:01","slug":"oil-dips-as-markets-await-iran-response-to-us-killing-of-military-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-dips-as-markets-await-iran-response-to-us-killing-of-military-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil dips as markets await Iran response to US killing of military commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday, coming off their highest levels in months as the market calmed while the world braces for Iran&#8217;s response to the killing of its top military commander by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude fell 44 cents to $68.47 a barrel by 0200 GMT while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was at $62.86 a barrel, down 41 cents.<\/p>\n<p>Prices surged for the previous two sesssions on fears of escalating conflict and supply disruption in the Middle East after the Jan. 3 drone strike in Baghdad that killed Iran&#8217;s Qassem Soleimani. But some analysts have tempered expectations for a widespread conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday, coming off their highest levels in months as the market calmed while the world braces for Iran&#8217;s response to the killing of its top military commander by the United States. Brent crude fell 44 cents to $68.47 a barrel by 0200 GMT while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was at $62.86 a barrel, down 41 cents. Prices surged for the previous two sesssions on fears of escalating conflict and supply disruption in the Middle East after the Jan. 3 drone strike in Baghdad that killed Iran&#8217;s Qassem Soleimani. But some analysts have [&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-309195","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\/309195","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=309195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}