{"id":309417,"date":"2020-01-08T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309417"},"modified":"2020-01-08T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:16:06","slug":"oil-slips-as-investors-reassess-mideast-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-slips-as-investors-reassess-mideast-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil slips as investors reassess Mideast risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices on Tuesday surrendered some of the gains of recent days as investors reconsidered the likelihood of immediate supply disruptions in the Middle East after the United States killed a top Iranian military commander.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 63 cents, or 0.9%, at $68.28 a barrel by 1452 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 55 cents, or 0.9%, at $62.72.<\/p>\n<p>Prices surged during the previous two sessions, with Brent reaching its highest since September while WTI rose to its strongest since April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices on Tuesday surrendered some of the gains of recent days as investors reconsidered the likelihood of immediate supply disruptions in the Middle East after the United States killed a top Iranian military commander. Brent crude was down 63 cents, or 0.9%, at $68.28 a barrel by 1452 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 55 cents, or 0.9%, at $62.72. Prices surged during the previous two sessions, with Brent reaching its highest since September while WTI rose to its strongest 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-309417","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\/309417","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=309417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}