{"id":429156,"date":"2021-08-05T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T06:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429156"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T06:08:04","slug":"oil-prices-rise-on-mideast-tensions-crude-stock-build-caps-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-on-mideast-tensions-crude-stock-build-caps-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise on Mideast tensions; crude stock build caps gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged higher on Thursday, supported by tensions in the Middle East, but failed to regain most of the previous day&#8217;s losses after a surprise build in crude stockpiles in the United States, the world&#8217;s top oil consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures rose by 14 cents, or 0.2%, to $70.52 a barrel by 0132 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures increased by 18 cents, or 0.3%, to $68.33 a barrel. Both benchmarks fell by more than $2 a barrel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged higher on Thursday, supported by tensions in the Middle East, but failed to regain most of the previous day&#8217;s losses after a surprise build in crude stockpiles in the United States, the world&#8217;s top oil consumer. Brent crude oil futures rose by 14 cents, or 0.2%, to $70.52 a barrel by 0132 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures increased by 18 cents, or 0.3%, to $68.33 a barrel. Both benchmarks fell by more than $2 a barrel on Wednesday.<\/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-429156","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\/429156","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=429156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}