{"id":468989,"date":"2022-02-18T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=468989"},"modified":"2022-02-18T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T03:08:54","slug":"oil-prices-fall-amid-iran-nuclear-deal-talks-and-russia-ukraine-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-amid-iran-nuclear-deal-talks-and-russia-ukraine-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall amid Iran nuclear deal talks and Russia-Ukraine tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices fell on Thursday as talks to resurrect a nuclear deal with Iran entered their final stages, but losses were capped by heightened tensions between top energy exporter Russia and the West over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude traded down $1.26, or 1.3%, at $93.55 a barrel by 0914 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down $1.34, or 1.4%, at $92.32.<\/p>\n<p>Both contracts fell more than 2% earlier in the session. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The) oil market is locked in a tug of war between Iranian sanctions relief and Russian-Ukraine tensions,&#8221; said Stephen Brennock at brokerage PVM Oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices fell on Thursday as talks to resurrect a nuclear deal with Iran entered their final stages, but losses were capped by heightened tensions between top energy exporter Russia and the West over Ukraine. Brent crude traded down $1.26, or 1.3%, at $93.55 a barrel by 0914 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down $1.34, or 1.4%, at $92.32. Both contracts fell more than 2% earlier in the session. &#8220;(The) oil market is locked in a tug of war between Iranian sanctions relief and Russian-Ukraine tensions,&#8221; said Stephen Brennock at brokerage PVM Oil.<\/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-468989","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\/468989","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=468989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}