{"id":309415,"date":"2020-01-08T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309415"},"modified":"2020-01-08T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:15:42","slug":"oil-jumps-as-iran-rocket-strike-on-us-forces-jolts-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-jumps-as-iran-rocket-strike-on-us-forces-jolts-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil jumps as Iran rocket strike on US forces jolts markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices jumped to their highest in months on Wednesday after Iran attacked American forces in Iraq in response to a US strike that killed an Iranian general last week, raising the spectre of a spiralling conflict and disrupted oil supplies.<\/p>\n<p>But prices cooled a fraction after the early heat as analysts said market tension could ease as long as oil production facilities remain unaffected by attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose $1.56, or 2.3 per cent, to $69.83 by around 0207 GMT, after earlier rising to $71.75, the highest since mid-September 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices jumped to their highest in months on Wednesday after Iran attacked American forces in Iraq in response to a US strike that killed an Iranian general last week, raising the spectre of a spiralling conflict and disrupted oil supplies. But prices cooled a fraction after the early heat as analysts said market tension could ease as long as oil production facilities remain unaffected by attacks. Brent crude futures rose $1.56, or 2.3 per cent, to $69.83 by around 0207 GMT, after earlier rising to $71.75, the highest since mid-September 2019.<\/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-309415","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\/309415","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=309415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}