{"id":657722,"date":"2026-01-17T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657722"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:33:18","slug":"crude-oil-prices-fall-for-the-second-day-on-easing-fears-of-a-us-strike-on-iran-whats-behind-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-fall-for-the-second-day-on-easing-fears-of-a-us-strike-on-iran-whats-behind-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices fall for the second day on easing fears of a US strike on Iran. What&#8217;s behind the fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices declined on Friday, extending losses from the previous session, as worries over supply disruptions eased with the reduced likelihood of a U.S. strike on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude slipped 21 cents, or 0.3%, to $63.55 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate fell 15 cents, or 0.3%, to $59.04 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices declined on Friday, extending losses from the previous session, as worries over supply disruptions eased with the reduced likelihood of a U.S. strike on Iran. Brent crude slipped 21 cents, or 0.3%, to $63.55 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate fell 15 cents, or 0.3%, to $59.04 a barrel.<\/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-657722","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\/657722","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=657722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}