{"id":659838,"date":"2026-04-04T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659838"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:31:00","slug":"oil-prices-continue-to-rally-crude-jumps-as-trump-dashes-hopes-of-quick-iran-war-end-brent-tops-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-continue-to-rally-crude-jumps-as-trump-dashes-hopes-of-quick-iran-war-end-brent-tops-111\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices continue to rally: Crude jumps as Trump dashes hopes of quick Iran war end; Brent tops $111"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose sharply on Thursday (local time) as tensions in the Middle East intensified, with the US launching more strikes on Iran, fueling concerns over the energy supply flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 7.8% to $109.03 per barrel after soaring beyond the $111 per barrel mark. At the same time, WTI crude oil futures for near-term delivery next month recorded their largest-ever premium over second-month contracts, rising to $111.54, up 11.41%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the session, the US Crude had jumped beyond the $113 per barrel mark. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose sharply on Thursday (local time) as tensions in the Middle East intensified, with the US launching more strikes on Iran, fueling concerns over the energy supply flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 7.8% to $109.03 per barrel after soaring beyond the $111 per barrel mark. At the same time, WTI crude oil futures for near-term delivery next month recorded their largest-ever premium over second-month contracts, rising to $111.54, up 11.41%. Earlier in the session, the US Crude had jumped beyond the $113 per barrel mark.<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659838","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=659838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}