{"id":659768,"date":"2026-04-02T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659768"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:11:40","slug":"oil-prices-up-5-as-trump-threatens-of-further-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-up-5-as-trump-threatens-of-further-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices up 5% as Trump threatens of further escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude prices reversed early losses on Thursday morning after US President Donald Trump said the US is going to hit Iran \u201cextremely hard\u201d over the next two to three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised prime-time address early Thursday (India time), Trump added that the US will \u201cfinish the job pretty soon\u201d in Iran. Oil futures had initially traded lower on hopes of a ceasefire or a possible end to the war. However, following Trump\u2019s remarks, prices surged sharply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude prices reversed early losses on Thursday morning after US President Donald Trump said the US is going to hit Iran \u201cextremely hard\u201d over the next two to three weeks. In a televised prime-time address early Thursday (India time), Trump added that the US will \u201cfinish the job pretty soon\u201d in Iran. Oil futures had initially traded lower on hopes of a ceasefire or a possible end to the war. However, following Trump\u2019s remarks, prices surged sharply.<\/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-659768","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\/659768","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=659768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}