{"id":659667,"date":"2026-03-27T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659667"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:50:14","slug":"crude-oil-prices-spike-over-5-as-conflicting-us-iran-signals-cloud-ceasefire-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-spike-over-5-as-conflicting-us-iran-signals-cloud-ceasefire-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices spike over 5% as conflicting US-Iran signals cloud ceasefire prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices resumed their upward trajectory in Thursday\u2019s trade (26 March) as traders grew increasingly sceptical about the prospects of a ceasefire between the US and Iran to end the month-long conflict that has triggered a global energy crisis and raised concerns over economic stability.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude rose 5.4% to $102.49 per barrel, compared with around $70 before the war began. Prices have rebounded nearly 10% from the previous session\u2019s low of $93.45. Meanwhile, US benchmark crude gained 5.4% to $95.2 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices resumed their upward trajectory in Thursday\u2019s trade (26 March) as traders grew increasingly sceptical about the prospects of a ceasefire between the US and Iran to end the month-long conflict that has triggered a global energy crisis and raised concerns over economic stability. Brent crude rose 5.4% to $102.49 per barrel, compared with around $70 before the war began. Prices have rebounded nearly 10% from the previous session\u2019s low of $93.45. Meanwhile, US benchmark crude gained 5.4% to $95.2 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-659667","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\/659667","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=659667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}