{"id":397372,"date":"2021-01-27T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T05:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397372"},"modified":"2021-01-27T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T05:14:35","slug":"oil-prices-rise-to-near-11-month-highs-after-saudi-blast-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-to-near-11-month-highs-after-saudi-blast-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise to near 11-month highs after Saudi blast reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices ticked up on Tuesday alongside rising European shares and amid reports of a blast in Saudi Arabia, trading near 11-month highs.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up 43 cents, or 0.8%, at $56.31 by 1117 GMT, while U.S. crude rose 43 cents, or 0.8%, to $53.20. Both contracts rose nearly 1% on Monday and are set to post the third monthly rise in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Prices moved up slightly after reports of a blast in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, although the cause remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, gains in financial services and chemical sectors helped stocks rise on Tuesday . Risk assets such a equities and oil often move in tandem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices ticked up on Tuesday alongside rising European shares and amid reports of a blast in Saudi Arabia, trading near 11-month highs. Brent crude was up 43 cents, or 0.8%, at $56.31 by 1117 GMT, while U.S. crude rose 43 cents, or 0.8%, to $53.20. Both contracts rose nearly 1% on Monday and are set to post the third monthly rise in a row. Prices moved up slightly after reports of a blast in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, although the cause remains unclear. In Europe, gains in financial services and chemical sectors helped stocks rise on Tuesday . [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397372","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\/397372","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=397372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}