{"id":477232,"date":"2022-03-22T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477232"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:01:13","slug":"oil-prices-up-more-than-6-as-european-union-considers-russian-oil-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-up-more-than-6-as-european-union-considers-russian-oil-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices up more than $6 as European Union considers Russian oil ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices jumped by more than $6 on Monday, with Brent crude climbing above $114 a barrel, as European Union nations considered joining the United States in a Russian oil embargo and after a weekend attack on Saudi oil facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up $6.52, or 6%, at $114.45 a barrel by 1442 GMT, adding to a 1.2% rise on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose $5.90, or 5.6%, to $110.60.<\/p>\n<p>Prices moved higher ahead of talks this week between European Union governments and U.S. President Joe Biden in a series of summits that aims to harden the West&#8217;s response to Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices jumped by more than $6 on Monday, with Brent crude climbing above $114 a barrel, as European Union nations considered joining the United States in a Russian oil embargo and after a weekend attack on Saudi oil facilities. Brent crude futures were up $6.52, or 6%, at $114.45 a barrel by 1442 GMT, adding to a 1.2% rise on Friday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose $5.90, or 5.6%, to $110.60. Prices moved higher ahead of talks this week between European Union governments and U.S. President Joe Biden in a series of summits that [&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-477232","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\/477232","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=477232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}