{"id":624824,"date":"2023-12-28T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T04:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=624824"},"modified":"2023-12-28T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T05:18:12","slug":"oil-prices-slip-as-investors-monitor-red-sea-tensions-triggered-by-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slip-as-investors-monitor-red-sea-tensions-triggered-by-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slip as investors monitor Red Sea tensions triggered by Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slipped on Wednesday, eating into the previous day&#8217;s gains as investors monitored developments in the Red Sea, where shippers are returning despite further attacks on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were down 54 cents, or 0.6%, at $80.53 a barrel by 1445 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 65 cents, or 0.8%, to $74.92. <\/p>\n<p>Danish shipping company Maersk said it has scheduled several dozen container vessels to travel via the Suez Canal and Red Sea in the coming weeks after calling a temporary halt to those routes this month after attacks by Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthi militia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slipped on Wednesday, eating into the previous day&#8217;s gains as investors monitored developments in the Red Sea, where shippers are returning despite further attacks on Tuesday. Brent crude futures were down 54 cents, or 0.6%, at $80.53 a barrel by 1445 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 65 cents, or 0.8%, to $74.92. Danish shipping company Maersk said it has scheduled several dozen container vessels to travel via the Suez Canal and Red Sea in the coming weeks after calling a temporary halt to those routes this month after attacks by Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthi militia.<\/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-624824","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\/624824","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=624824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}