{"id":639677,"date":"2024-03-26T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=639677"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T05:39:02","slug":"crude-oil-rises-as-heightened-geopolitical-risks-exacerbate-supply-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-rises-as-heightened-geopolitical-risks-exacerbate-supply-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil rises as heightened geopolitical risks exacerbate supply concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose in Asian trading on Monday on concerns over tighter global supply brought about by escalating conflicts in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine, while a shrinking US rig count added to upward price pressure. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures climbed 39 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $85.82 a barrel at 0759 GMT. US crude futures gained 40 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $81.03 per barrel. <\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks fell less than 1 per cent last week versus the previous week. A stronger US dollar, which rose about 1 per cent over the last week, has kept a lid on prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose in Asian trading on Monday on concerns over tighter global supply brought about by escalating conflicts in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine, while a shrinking US rig count added to upward price pressure. Brent crude futures climbed 39 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $85.82 a barrel at 0759 GMT. US crude futures gained 40 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $81.03 per barrel. Both benchmarks fell less than 1 per cent last week versus the previous week. A stronger US dollar, which rose about 1 per cent over the last week, has kept [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639677","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\/639677","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=639677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}