{"id":473758,"date":"2022-03-07T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T04:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473758"},"modified":"2022-03-07T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:14:47","slug":"brent-crude-nears-140-barrel-close-to-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-crude-nears-140-barrel-close-to-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent crude nears $140\/barrel, close to all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent oil prices soared to a near 14-year high of $140 on Sunday as traders fretted over the fallout from Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Brent North Sea crude oil for May delivery reached $139.13 shortly after electronic trading opened around 2300 GMT, heading towards a 2008 record high before retreating slightly over the next hour.<\/p>\n<p>The European benchmark crude hit its record price of $147.50 per barrel in July 2008. <\/p>\n<p>By 0030 GMT, Brent crude had dropped a little more to $128.77 per barrel &#8212; 9.02 per cent higher than its closing price on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The price per barrel of Brent oil has increased 33 per cent since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent oil prices soared to a near 14-year high of $140 on Sunday as traders fretted over the fallout from Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Brent North Sea crude oil for May delivery reached $139.13 shortly after electronic trading opened around 2300 GMT, heading towards a 2008 record high before retreating slightly over the next hour. The European benchmark crude hit its record price of $147.50 per barrel in July 2008. By 0030 GMT, Brent crude had dropped a little more to $128.77 per barrel &#8212; 9.02 per cent higher than its closing price on Friday. The price per barrel of [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473758","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=473758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}