{"id":658117,"date":"2026-01-30T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658117"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:19:20","slug":"oil-prices-down-1-on-escalating-us-iran-tension-but-set-for-biggest-monthly-gain-how-to-trade-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-down-1-on-escalating-us-iran-tension-but-set-for-biggest-monthly-gain-how-to-trade-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices down 1% on escalating US-Iran tension, but set for biggest monthly gain. How to trade now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices retreated more than 1% on Friday after touching multi-month peaks, but remain on track for their strongest gains in years, driven by a sharp rise in risk premiums amid fears that a potential U.S. strike on Iran could disrupt global supply.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were down 91 cents at $69.80 a barrel, following a 3.4% jump on Thursday that took prices to their highest level since July 31. The March contract expires later on Friday, while the more actively traded April contract slipped $1.07 to $68.52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices retreated more than 1% on Friday after touching multi-month peaks, but remain on track for their strongest gains in years, driven by a sharp rise in risk premiums amid fears that a potential U.S. strike on Iran could disrupt global supply. Brent crude futures were down 91 cents at $69.80 a barrel, following a 3.4% jump on Thursday that took prices to their highest level since July 31. The March contract expires later on Friday, while the more actively traded April contract slipped $1.07 to $68.52.<\/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-658117","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\/658117","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=658117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}