{"id":309870,"date":"2020-01-10T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309870"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T06:39:00","slug":"diesel-price-hits-408-day-high-in-delhi-at-rs-68-94-per-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-price-hits-408-day-high-in-delhi-at-rs-68-94-per-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel price hits 408-day high in Delhi, at Rs 68.94 per litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail price of diesel in New Delhi touched Rs 68.94\/litre on Thursday \u2014 the highest level in 408 days \u2014 as an aftermath of rising crude oil rates amid geopolitical tension. Petrol price in the city had touched a 409-day high on January 6, and has been increasing since then.<\/p>\n<p>Refiners use rolling 15-day price of petroleum products in the international markets to arrive at a daily cost of fuel using a formula which includes a trade parity price. Various other charges such as inland freight, delivery charges, marketing costs and margins of oil marketing companies are also incorporated in the calculation.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude prices had spiralled to more than $70 per barrel and closed at $68.91 per barrel on January 6 after an US airstrike killed powerful Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in the preceding weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail price of diesel in New Delhi touched Rs 68.94\/litre on Thursday \u2014 the highest level in 408 days \u2014 as an aftermath of rising crude oil rates amid geopolitical tension. Petrol price in the city had touched a 409-day high on January 6, and has been increasing since then. Refiners use rolling 15-day price of petroleum products in the international markets to arrive at a daily cost of fuel using a formula which includes a trade parity price. Various other charges such as inland freight, delivery charges, marketing costs and margins of oil marketing companies are also incorporated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309870","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}