{"id":659132,"date":"2026-03-09T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659132"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:33:51","slug":"trump-says-oil-surge-is-very-small-price-to-pay-as-crude-tops-100-a-barrel-hints-at-when-prices-could-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trump-says-oil-surge-is-very-small-price-to-pay-as-crude-tops-100-a-barrel-hints-at-when-prices-could-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says oil surge is &#8216;very small price to pay&#8217; as crude tops $100 a barrel; hints at when prices could fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices rocketed past $100 a barrel on Sunday for the first time since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The ongoing US military campaign against Iran has strangled one of the world&#8217;s most critical energy chokepoints. It has also forced major Gulf producers to dramatically curtail output.<\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, surged 17% or $15.32 to $106.22 a barrel by Sunday, while global benchmark, Brent crude, advanced 15% or $14.28 to $106.92. By later in the day, US oil prices had extended gains to more than 23% on the session, trading above $111 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices rocketed past $100 a barrel on Sunday for the first time since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The ongoing US military campaign against Iran has strangled one of the world&#8217;s most critical energy chokepoints. It has also forced major Gulf producers to dramatically curtail output. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, surged 17% or $15.32 to $106.22 a barrel by Sunday, while global benchmark, Brent crude, advanced 15% or $14.28 to $106.92. By later in the day, US oil prices had extended gains to more than 23% on the session, trading above $111 a 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-659132","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\/659132","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=659132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}