{"id":628146,"date":"2024-01-15T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=628146"},"modified":"2024-01-15T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:36:37","slug":"oil-prices-rise-2-after-us-britain-strikes-in-yemen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-2-after-us-britain-strikes-in-yemen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise 2% after US, Britain strikes in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose more than 2% on Friday as the United States and Britain carried out strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen in retaliation for attacks by the Iran-backed group on shipping in the Red Sea starting from late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up $1.53, or 2%, at $78.94 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were trading $1.53, or 2.1% higher, at $73.55 at 0337 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmarks were adding to gains of nearly 1% from the day before, ensuring prices were on track for a second straight weekly rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose more than 2% on Friday as the United States and Britain carried out strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen in retaliation for attacks by the Iran-backed group on shipping in the Red Sea starting from late last year. Brent crude futures were up $1.53, or 2%, at $78.94 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were trading $1.53, or 2.1% higher, at $73.55 at 0337 GMT. The benchmarks were adding to gains of nearly 1% from the day before, ensuring prices were on track for a second straight weekly rise.<\/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-628146","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\/628146","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=628146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}