{"id":393611,"date":"2021-01-06T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T04:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393611"},"modified":"2021-01-06T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T04:58:01","slug":"oil-prices-rise-on-opec-output-talks-iran-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-on-opec-output-talks-iran-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise on OPEC output talks, Iran tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday as tension simmered following Iran&#8217;s seizure of a South Korean vessel and as the OPEC+ group of producers were divided over February output levels.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for March rose 86 cents to $51.95 a barrel by 1410 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude for February was at $48.51 a barrel, up 89 cents.<\/p>\n<p>Both contracts fell more than 1% on Monday after OPEC+, which includes OPEC producers and others including Russia, failed to agree on a February output target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday as tension simmered following Iran&#8217;s seizure of a South Korean vessel and as the OPEC+ group of producers were divided over February output levels. Brent crude futures for March rose 86 cents to $51.95 a barrel by 1410 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude for February was at $48.51 a barrel, up 89 cents. Both contracts fell more than 1% on Monday after OPEC+, which includes OPEC producers and others including Russia, failed to agree on a February output target.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393611","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=393611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}