{"id":309248,"date":"2020-01-07T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309248"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:52:03","slug":"oil-dips-as-markets-await-iran-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-dips-as-markets-await-iran-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil dips as markets await Iran response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 U.S. 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<p>&#8220;Over the past three days, the scope for Iranian retaliation has shifted in two important ways,&#8221; consultancy Eurasia Group said in a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 U.S. 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 tempered [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309248","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=309248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}