{"id":464331,"date":"2022-01-28T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=464331"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T04:08:02","slug":"oil-at-seven-year-high-as-ukraine-crisis-overshadows-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-at-seven-year-high-as-ukraine-crisis-overshadows-federal-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil at seven-year high as Ukraine crisis overshadows Federal Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Oil traded at a seven-year high of about $90 a barrel on Thursday as the Ukraine crisis supported prices despite signs that the U.S. Federal Reserve will tighten monetary policy. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up 6 cents, or 0.1%, at $90.02 a barrel by 11113 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 2 cents at $87.33.<\/p>\n<p>Crude prices had surged on Wednesday, with Brent climbing above $90 a barrel for the first time in seven years amid tensions between Russia and the West. Russia, the world&#8217;s second-largest oil producer, and the West have been at loggerheads over Ukraine, fanning fears of disruption of energy supplies to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Oil traded at a seven-year high of about $90 a barrel on Thursday as the Ukraine crisis supported prices despite signs that the U.S. Federal Reserve will tighten monetary policy. Brent crude futures were up 6 cents, or 0.1%, at $90.02 a barrel by 11113 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 2 cents at $87.33. Crude prices had surged on Wednesday, with Brent climbing above $90 a barrel for the first time in seven years amid tensions between Russia and the West. Russia, the world&#8217;s second-largest oil producer, and the West have been [&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-464331","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\/464331","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=464331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}