{"id":659040,"date":"2026-03-06T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659040"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:14:58","slug":"oil-prices-up-over-2-amid-ongoing-conflict-in-west-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-up-over-2-amid-ongoing-conflict-in-west-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices up over 2% amid ongoing conflict in West Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude oil prices rose over 2% on Thursday amid escalating tensions in West Asia, supply constraints and fears of a prolonged conflict disrupting critical energy routes.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7:15 AM, the April contract of the benchmark crude on the Intercontinental Exchange was trading at $83.26 per barrel, higher by 2.43% from its previous close. Similarly, the April contract of West Texas Intermediate on the NYMEX rose 2.63% to $76.63 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude oil prices rose over 2% on Thursday amid escalating tensions in West Asia, supply constraints and fears of a prolonged conflict disrupting critical energy routes. Around 7:15 AM, the April contract of the benchmark crude on the Intercontinental Exchange was trading at $83.26 per barrel, higher by 2.43% from its previous close. Similarly, the April contract of West Texas Intermediate on the NYMEX rose 2.63% to $76.63 per barrel.<\/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-659040","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\/659040","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=659040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}