{"id":626739,"date":"2024-01-06T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=626739"},"modified":"2024-01-06T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T05:09:46","slug":"oil-prices-rise-as-blinken-begins-week-long-sweep-through-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-as-blinken-begins-week-long-sweep-through-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise as Blinken begins week-long sweep through the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a week-long sweep through the Middle East in an attempt to contain regional tensions stoked by the Israel-Hamas conflict. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures settled up $1.17, or 1.51 per cent, at $78.76 a barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures finished up $1.62, or 2.24 per cent, at $73.81. <\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks are on track to end the first week of the year higher, rebounding from losses on Thursday triggered by hefty increases in U.S. gasoline and distillate stocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a week-long sweep through the Middle East in an attempt to contain regional tensions stoked by the Israel-Hamas conflict. Brent crude futures settled up $1.17, or 1.51 per cent, at $78.76 a barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures finished up $1.62, or 2.24 per cent, at $73.81. Both benchmarks are on track to end the first week of the year higher, rebounding from losses on Thursday triggered by hefty increases in U.S. gasoline and distillate stocks.<\/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-626739","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\/626739","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=626739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}