{"id":609554,"date":"2023-10-10T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T07:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=609554"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T07:05:51","slug":"oil-prices-surge-4-on-worries-of-escalation-in-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-surge-4-on-worries-of-escalation-in-middle-east-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge 4% on worries of escalation in Middle East conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged 4% on Monday, recouping some of the steep losses last week, as military clashes between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas ignited fears that a wider conflict could affect oil supply from the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up $3.24, or 3.8%, to $87.85 a barrel by 11 a.m. ET (1500 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $86.19 a barrel, up $3.40 or about 4.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged 4% on Monday, recouping some of the steep losses last week, as military clashes between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas ignited fears that a wider conflict could affect oil supply from the Middle East. Brent crude was up $3.24, or 3.8%, to $87.85 a barrel by 11 a.m. ET (1500 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $86.19 a barrel, up $3.40 or about 4.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609554","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}