{"id":309200,"date":"2020-01-07T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309200"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:30:44","slug":"oil-prices-climb-2-as-iran-trump-trade-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-climb-2-as-iran-trump-trade-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices climb 2% as Iran, Trump trade threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose a further 2 per centon Monday, pushing Brent above $70 a barrel, as rhetoric from the United States, Iran and Iraq fanned tensions in the Middle East after the killing of a top Iranian general.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures soared to a high of $70.74 a barrel and was at $70.03 at 0747 GMT, up $1.43, or 2.1 per cent, from Friday&#8217;s settlement.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $64.15 a barrel, up $1.10, or 1.7 per cent, after touching $64.72 earlier, the highest since April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose a further 2 per centon Monday, pushing Brent above $70 a barrel, as rhetoric from the United States, Iran and Iraq fanned tensions in the Middle East after the killing of a top Iranian general. Brent crude futures soared to a high of $70.74 a barrel and was at $70.03 at 0747 GMT, up $1.43, or 2.1 per cent, from Friday&#8217;s settlement. US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $64.15 a barrel, up $1.10, or 1.7 per cent, after touching $64.72 earlier, the highest since April.<\/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-309200","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\/309200","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=309200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}