{"id":628526,"date":"2024-01-17T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=628526"},"modified":"2024-01-17T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T06:02:09","slug":"crude-oil-prices-rise-1-to-78-96-a-barrel-on-flaring-west-asia-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-rise-1-to-78-96-a-barrel-on-flaring-west-asia-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices rise 1% to $78.96 a barrel on flaring West Asia tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose by around 1% on Tuesday, as investors weighed the impact of tensions in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures gained 81 cents, or about 1.04%, to $78.96 a barrel at 1333 GMT. The contract had lost 14 cents on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 41 cents, or 0.56%, from Friday at $73.09 a barrel. U.S. markets were closed for a public holiday on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>An escalating conflict in the Middle East, and consequently increased volatility in oil futures, focused attention on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose by around 1% on Tuesday, as investors weighed the impact of tensions in the Middle East. Brent crude futures gained 81 cents, or about 1.04%, to $78.96 a barrel at 1333 GMT. The contract had lost 14 cents on Monday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 41 cents, or 0.56%, from Friday at $73.09 a barrel. U.S. markets were closed for a public holiday on Monday. An escalating conflict in the Middle East, and consequently increased volatility in oil futures, focused attention on Tuesday.<\/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-628526","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\/628526","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=628526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}