{"id":658387,"date":"2026-02-06T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658387"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:39:06","slug":"oil-prices-snap-three-day-winning-streak-on-us-iran-talk-hopes-where-are-crude-futures-headed-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-snap-three-day-winning-streak-on-us-iran-talk-hopes-where-are-crude-futures-headed-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices snap three-day winning streak on US\u2013Iran talk hopes. Where are crude futures headed next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices snapped their three-day rising streak, falling nearly 1% in the international markets on Thursday, February 5, after the US and Iran agreed to hold negotiation talks in Oman, easing fears of a possible military confrontation that could disrupt supplies from the key Middle East oil-producing region.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures slipped 1.4% to $68.47 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 91 cents, also 1.4%, to $64.23. Meanwhile, back home, MCX crude oil prices were down 2% to the \u20b95,700 level on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices snapped their three-day rising streak, falling nearly 1% in the international markets on Thursday, February 5, after the US and Iran agreed to hold negotiation talks in Oman, easing fears of a possible military confrontation that could disrupt supplies from the key Middle East oil-producing region. Brent crude futures slipped 1.4% to $68.47 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 91 cents, also 1.4%, to $64.23. Meanwhile, back home, MCX crude oil prices were down 2% to the \u20b95,700 level on Thursday.<\/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-658387","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\/658387","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=658387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}