{"id":657245,"date":"2026-01-03T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657245"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:26:14","slug":"oil-fluctuates-as-traders-weigh-surplus-geopolitical-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-fluctuates-as-traders-weigh-surplus-geopolitical-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Fluctuates as Traders Weigh Surplus, Geopolitical Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Oil steadied on the first trading day of 2026 as expectations for a supply surplus offset geopolitical risks to production in several OPEC nations. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures settled below $61 a barrel in relatively thin trading, while West Texas Intermediate settled above $57. Middle Eastern markets, including derivatives like the regional Dubai benchmark, faltered amid heavy selling pressure on a key trading window in Asian hours, traders familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Oil steadied on the first trading day of 2026 as expectations for a supply surplus offset geopolitical risks to production in several OPEC nations. Brent crude futures settled below $61 a barrel in relatively thin trading, while West Texas Intermediate settled above $57. Middle Eastern markets, including derivatives like the regional Dubai benchmark, faltered amid heavy selling pressure on a key trading window in Asian hours, traders familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657245","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}