{"id":659074,"date":"2026-03-07T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659074"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:35:14","slug":"crude-oil-rallies-on-intensifying-us-iran-conflict-set-for-largest-weekly-gain-since-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-rallies-on-intensifying-us-iran-conflict-set-for-largest-weekly-gain-since-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil rallies on intensifying US\u2011Iran conflict, set for largest weekly gain since 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude oil prices are on track to register the biggest weekly surge in four years as the war in the Middle East has unleashed a wave of disruption across energy markets, with maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz grinding to a near-complete halt, which has kept crude oil prices in a boiling zone.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures have already jumped 22% this week so far, putting them on track for the biggest weekly surge since February 2022, when they gained 25.4%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude oil prices are on track to register the biggest weekly surge in four years as the war in the Middle East has unleashed a wave of disruption across energy markets, with maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz grinding to a near-complete halt, which has kept crude oil prices in a boiling zone. Brent crude futures have already jumped 22% this week so far, putting them on track for the biggest weekly surge since February 2022, when they gained 25.4%.<\/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-659074","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\/659074","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=659074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}