{"id":658125,"date":"2026-01-30T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658125"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:47:11","slug":"oil-prices-rise-more-than-1-on-escalating-us-iran-tension-more-upside-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-more-than-1-on-escalating-us-iran-tension-more-upside-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise more than 1% on escalating US-Iran tension. More upside ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped nearly 1.5% on Thursday, extending their bull run to the third consecutive day amid growing fears that the U.S. could launch a military strike against Iran, a major Middle East crude producer, potentially disrupting regional oil supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures advanced 99 cents, or 1.5%, to $69.39 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.06, or 1.7%, to $64.27 a barrel. Both benchmarks are up around 5% since Monday and are trading at their highest levels since September 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped nearly 1.5% on Thursday, extending their bull run to the third consecutive day amid growing fears that the U.S. could launch a military strike against Iran, a major Middle East crude producer, potentially disrupting regional oil supplies. Brent crude futures advanced 99 cents, or 1.5%, to $69.39 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.06, or 1.7%, to $64.27 a barrel. Both benchmarks are up around 5% since Monday and are trading at their highest levels since September 29.<\/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-658125","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\/658125","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=658125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}