{"id":656677,"date":"2025-12-18T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656677"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:27:16","slug":"oil-jumps-1-5-as-trumps-venezuela-blockade-stokes-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-jumps-1-5-as-trumps-venezuela-blockade-stokes-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil jumps 1.5% as Trump&#8217;s Venezuela blockade stokes uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose more than 1% on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered &#8220;a total and complete&#8221; blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, raising fresh geopolitical tensions at a time of concerns over demand.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up 87 cents, or 1.5%, at $59.79 a barrel at 0730 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 85 cents, or 1.5%, to $56.12 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose more than 1% on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered &#8220;a total and complete&#8221; blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, raising fresh geopolitical tensions at a time of concerns over demand. Brent crude futures were up 87 cents, or 1.5%, at $59.79 a barrel at 0730 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 85 cents, or 1.5%, to $56.12 a barrel.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656677","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=656677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}