{"id":659028,"date":"2026-03-06T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659028"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:39:56","slug":"oil-jumps-5-on-supply-concerns-as-iran-conflict-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-jumps-5-on-supply-concerns-as-iran-conflict-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil jumps 5% on supply concerns as Iran conflict widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices jumped 5% on Thursday, extending a rally as the escalating U.S.-Israeli war with Iran disrupted supplies and shipping, driving some major producers in the Middle East to reduce output. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up $4.09, or 5.02%, at $85.49 per barrel by 1:37 p.m. EST, a fifth session of gains. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose $6, or 8.04%, to $80.66. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices jumped 5% on Thursday, extending a rally as the escalating U.S.-Israeli war with Iran disrupted supplies and shipping, driving some major producers in the Middle East to reduce output. Brent crude was up $4.09, or 5.02%, at $85.49 per barrel by 1:37 p.m. EST, a fifth session of gains. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose $6, or 8.04%, to $80.66.<\/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-659028","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\/659028","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=659028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}