{"id":468123,"date":"2022-02-15T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=468123"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:59:57","slug":"oil-hits-7-yr-highs-as-market-fears-russian-attack-on-ukraine-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-hits-7-yr-highs-as-market-fears-russian-attack-on-ukraine-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil hits 7-yr highs as market fears Russian attack on Ukraine imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged over 2% on Monday to their highest in more than seven years as Ukraine&#8217;s president declared a &#8220;day of unity&#8221; for Feb. 16, a date that some Western media have cited as a possible start of a Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is one of the world&#8217;s largest oil and gas producers, and fears that it could invade Ukraine have driven the rally in oil closer to $100 per barrel, a level not seen since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The market remains hyper-sensitive to the developments over the Russian\/Ukraine situation,&#8221; said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital in New York. &#8220;This is now intensifying to a terrific degree. Right now, it&#8217;s buy now, ask later.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged over 2% on Monday to their highest in more than seven years as Ukraine&#8217;s president declared a &#8220;day of unity&#8221; for Feb. 16, a date that some Western media have cited as a possible start of a Russian invasion. Russia is one of the world&#8217;s largest oil and gas producers, and fears that it could invade Ukraine have driven the rally in oil closer to $100 per barrel, a level not seen since 2014. &#8220;The market remains hyper-sensitive to the developments over the Russian\/Ukraine situation,&#8221; said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital in New York. &#8220;This is [&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-468123","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\/468123","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=468123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}