{"id":429305,"date":"2021-08-06T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429305"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T04:48:03","slug":"oil-prices-rise-on-mideast-tensions-crude-stock-build-caps-gains-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-on-mideast-tensions-crude-stock-build-caps-gains-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise on Mideast tensions; crude stock build caps gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; 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 U.S. 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<p>Israeli aircraft struck what its military said were rocket launch sites in south Lebanon early on Thursday in response to earlier projectile fire towards Israel from Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; 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 U.S. 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. Israeli aircraft struck what its military said were rocket launch sites in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429305","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}