{"id":659410,"date":"2026-03-18T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659410"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:21:36","slug":"oil-prices-fall-3-on-reports-of-increase-in-us-crude-inventories-is-more-downside-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-3-on-reports-of-increase-in-us-crude-inventories-is-more-downside-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall 3% on reports of increase in US crude inventories. Is more downside ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Crude oil prices declined on Wednesday, March 18, after reports indicated a rise in US crude inventories in the American Petroleum Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures lost $2.31, or 2.24%, to $101.15 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude fell $3.20, or 3.21%, to $92.46.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Crude oil prices declined on Wednesday, March 18, after reports indicated a rise in US crude inventories in the American Petroleum Institute. Brent futures lost $2.31, or 2.24%, to $101.15 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude fell $3.20, or 3.21%, to $92.46.<\/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-659410","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\/659410","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=659410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}