{"id":659362,"date":"2026-03-17T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659362"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:54:37","slug":"oil-prices-up-2-amid-escalating-war-in-west-asia-closure-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-up-2-amid-escalating-war-in-west-asia-closure-of-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices up 2% amid escalating war in West Asia, closure of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices rose over 2% on Tuesday morning as the ongoing war in West Asia and fears of a prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz pushed up global energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>The spike underscores how geopolitical tensions can tighten supply and transmit price shocks to import-dependent economies like India, raising risks for inflation, fuel costs and household energy access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices rose over 2% on Tuesday morning as the ongoing war in West Asia and fears of a prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz pushed up global energy costs. The spike underscores how geopolitical tensions can tighten supply and transmit price shocks to import-dependent economies like India, raising risks for inflation, fuel costs and household energy access.<\/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-659362","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\/659362","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=659362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}