{"id":611170,"date":"2023-10-19T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T04:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=611170"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:57:41","slug":"oil-spikes-as-hospital-blast-amplifies-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-spikes-as-hospital-blast-amplifies-middle-east-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil spikes as hospital blast amplifies Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London: Oil prices surged nearly 2 per cent on Wednesday as tension escalated in the Middle East after hundreds were killed in a blast at a Gaza hospital, sparking concerns about potential oil supply disruptions from the region.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures was up $1.55, or 1.7 per cent, to $91.45 a barrel at 0810 GMT. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) futures were up $1.66, or 1.9%, at $88.32 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks gained more than $2 to touch their highest levels in two weeks earlier in the session.<\/p>\n<p>Markets factored in risk premiums after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Oil prices surged nearly 2 per cent on Wednesday as tension escalated in the Middle East after hundreds were killed in a blast at a Gaza hospital, sparking concerns about potential oil supply disruptions from the region. Brent crude futures was up $1.55, or 1.7 per cent, to $91.45 a barrel at 0810 GMT. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) futures were up $1.66, or 1.9%, at $88.32 a barrel. Both benchmarks gained more than $2 to touch their highest levels in two weeks earlier in the session. Markets factored in risk premiums after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in [&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-611170","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\/611170","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=611170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}