{"id":633042,"date":"2024-02-05T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=633042"},"modified":"2024-02-05T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T06:20:11","slug":"oil-prices-steady-on-gaza-ceasefire-talks-even-as-us-plans-middle-east-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-steady-on-gaza-ceasefire-talks-even-as-us-plans-middle-east-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices steady on Gaza ceasefire talks even as US plans Middle East strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: Oil prices stabilised in early Asian trading on Monday after sharp falls last week, amid continued attempts to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian conflict even as the US planned new strikes on Iran-backed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures inched up 8 cents to $77.41 a barrel by 0131 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate futures were flat at $72.28 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks ended last week down about 7 per cent. They fell 2 per cent on Friday after stronger-than-expected US jobs data suggested interest rate cuts could be further out than expected, and on progress in ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: Oil prices stabilised in early Asian trading on Monday after sharp falls last week, amid continued attempts to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian conflict even as the US planned new strikes on Iran-backed groups. Brent crude futures inched up 8 cents to $77.41 a barrel by 0131 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate futures were flat at $72.28 a barrel. Both benchmarks ended last week down about 7 per cent. They fell 2 per cent on Friday after stronger-than-expected US jobs data suggested interest rate cuts could be further out than expected, and on progress in ceasefire negotiations [&hellip;]<\/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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633042","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=633042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}