{"id":659873,"date":"2026-04-07T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659873"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:35:19","slug":"oil-prices-rise-amid-trumps-escalation-threats-wti-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-amid-trumps-escalation-threats-wti-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise amid Trump&#8217;s escalation threats, WTI up 2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices extended gains on Tuesday morning as the war in West Asia showed no signs of easing and US president Donald Trump ramped up threats against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude rose above $111 per barrel while WTI surged close to $115, as traders reacted to the possibility of further military escalation and continued disruption in the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 a critical global oil chokepoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices extended gains on Tuesday morning as the war in West Asia showed no signs of easing and US president Donald Trump ramped up threats against Iran. Brent crude rose above $111 per barrel while WTI surged close to $115, as traders reacted to the possibility of further military escalation and continued disruption in the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 a critical global oil chokepoint.<\/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-659873","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\/659873","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=659873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}