{"id":642020,"date":"2024-04-22T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=642020"},"modified":"2024-04-22T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:58:59","slug":"oil-prices-jump-slightly-as-iran-plays-down-reported-israeli-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-jump-slightly-as-iran-plays-down-reported-israeli-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices jump slightly as Iran plays down reported Israeli attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil edged higher on Friday, following an earlier price spike of more than $3 a barrel, after Iran played down a reported Israeli attack on its soil, a sign that an escalation of hostilities in the Middle East might be avoided. <\/p>\n<p>Brent futures were up 59 cents, or 0.68 per cent, at $87.70 a barrel at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT). <\/p>\n<p>The front month US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude contract for May rose 84 cents, or 1.02 per cent, to $83.57 a barrel. The more active June contract was up 57 cents, or 0.69 per cent, at $82.67 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil edged higher on Friday, following an earlier price spike of more than $3 a barrel, after Iran played down a reported Israeli attack on its soil, a sign that an escalation of hostilities in the Middle East might be avoided. Brent futures were up 59 cents, or 0.68 per cent, at $87.70 a barrel at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT). The front month US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude contract for May rose 84 cents, or 1.02 per cent, to $83.57 a barrel. The more active June contract was up 57 cents, or 0.69 per cent, at $82.67 a [&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-642020","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\/642020","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=642020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}