{"id":462684,"date":"2022-01-19T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=462684"},"modified":"2022-01-19T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T07:50:11","slug":"oil-price-tops-87-barrel-but-petrol-diesel-prices-stay-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-price-tops-87-barrel-but-petrol-diesel-prices-stay-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil price tops $87\/barrel but petrol, diesel prices stay unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International oil prices jumped to the highest level since 2014, topping $87 a barrel but domestic petrol and diesel prices remained unchanged for the 74th day in a row &#8211; a freeze that may be linked to ensuing assembly elections in states like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. <\/p>\n<p>Brent &#8211; the key global oil benchmark &#8211; soared to $87.7 per barrel mostly due to rising geopolitical tensions and supply-side disturbances due to Yemen&#8217;s Houthi group&#8217;s attack on oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates. Also, global inventories are waning.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, some analysts believe, may lead to more hostile behaviour between the two power centres in the Middle East &#8211; Iran and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International oil prices jumped to the highest level since 2014, topping $87 a barrel but domestic petrol and diesel prices remained unchanged for the 74th day in a row &#8211; a freeze that may be linked to ensuing assembly elections in states like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. Brent &#8211; the key global oil benchmark &#8211; soared to $87.7 per barrel mostly due to rising geopolitical tensions and supply-side disturbances due to Yemen&#8217;s Houthi group&#8217;s attack on oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates. Also, global inventories are waning. The attack, some analysts believe, may lead to more hostile behaviour between [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462684","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=462684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}