{"id":658764,"date":"2026-02-21T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658764"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:25:07","slug":"us-iran-war-buzz-fuels-crude-oil-price-to-six-month-high-time-to-invest-in-black-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-iran-war-buzz-fuels-crude-oil-price-to-six-month-high-time-to-invest-in-black-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran war buzz fuels crude oil price to six month high. Time to invest in black gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil priceshovered near a six-month high on escalating US-Iran tensions, which have significantly influenced market sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>As of February 20, 2026, MCX crude oil futures for the March 2026 expiry were trading flat at \u20b96,050 per barrel after early gains. Meanwhile, in the international market, Brent crude futures have increased by 33 cents, or 0.5%, hitting $71.99, while US West Texas Intermediate crude has risen by 62 cents, or 0.9%, reaching $67.05 as of 0715 GMT, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil priceshovered near a six-month high on escalating US-Iran tensions, which have significantly influenced market sentiment. As of February 20, 2026, MCX crude oil futures for the March 2026 expiry were trading flat at \u20b96,050 per barrel after early gains. Meanwhile, in the international market, Brent crude futures have increased by 33 cents, or 0.5%, hitting $71.99, while US West Texas Intermediate crude has risen by 62 cents, or 0.9%, reaching $67.05 as of 0715 GMT, according to Reuters.<\/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-658764","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\/658764","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=658764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}