{"id":609064,"date":"2023-10-09T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T04:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=609064"},"modified":"2023-10-09T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T04:20:17","slug":"oil-prices-soar-as-hamas-attack-on-israel-fans-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-soar-as-hamas-attack-on-israel-fans-middle-east-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices soar as Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel fans Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil surged more than 4 per cent after Hamas\u2019 surprise attacks on Israel over the weekend, the broadest and bloodiest in decades, threatened to inflame tensions in the Middle East, home to almost a third of global supply. <\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate rose above $86 a barrel as a war-risk premium returned to markets. The combined death toll topped 1,100 as fighting headed into a third day, while the US said it was sending warships to the region. <\/p>\n<p>The latest events in Israel don\u2019t pose an immediate threat to oil supply, but there\u2019s a risk the conflict could spiral into a more devastating proxy war, embroiling the US and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil surged more than 4 per cent after Hamas\u2019 surprise attacks on Israel over the weekend, the broadest and bloodiest in decades, threatened to inflame tensions in the Middle East, home to almost a third of global supply. West Texas Intermediate rose above $86 a barrel as a war-risk premium returned to markets. The combined death toll topped 1,100 as fighting headed into a third day, while the US said it was sending warships to the region. The latest events in Israel don\u2019t pose an immediate threat to oil supply, but there\u2019s a risk the conflict could spiral into a [&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-609064","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\/609064","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=609064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}