{"id":623333,"date":"2023-12-20T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T04:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=623333"},"modified":"2023-12-20T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:23:03","slug":"oil-prices-mixed-as-red-sea-attacks-disrupt-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-mixed-as-red-sea-attacks-disrupt-supply-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices mixed as Red Sea attacks disrupt supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday, with the U.S. benchmark dipping while Brent extended gains from the previous session, as attacks by Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthi militants on ships in the Red Sea disrupted maritime trade and forced companies to reroute vessels. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 10 cents, or 0.13%, to $78.05 a barrel at 0330 GMT. The front-month U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures contract, which expires on Tuesday, fell 7 cents to $72.40 a barrel. The more active second-month contract was down 5 cents, or 0.07%, to $72.77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday, with the U.S. benchmark dipping while Brent extended gains from the previous session, as attacks by Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthi militants on ships in the Red Sea disrupted maritime trade and forced companies to reroute vessels. Brent crude futures rose 10 cents, or 0.13%, to $78.05 a barrel at 0330 GMT. The front-month U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures contract, which expires on Tuesday, fell 7 cents to $72.40 a barrel. The more active second-month contract was down 5 cents, or 0.07%, to $72.77.<\/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":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623333","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=623333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}