{"id":659921,"date":"2026-04-08T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659921"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:46:26","slug":"oil-prices-plunge-below-100-bbl-after-us-iran-agree-on-2-week-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-plunge-below-100-bbl-after-us-iran-agree-on-2-week-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices plunge below $100\/bbl after US, Iran agree on 2-week ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices fell around 14% on Wednesday morning, with both Brent and WTI trading below $100 per barrel after the US, Israel and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:55 AM, the June contract of Brent was trading at $95.17 per barrel, lower by 12.90% from its previous close, while the May contract of West Texas Intermediate fell 14.64% to $96.41 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices fell around 14% on Wednesday morning, with both Brent and WTI trading below $100 per barrel after the US, Israel and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. At 7:55 AM, the June contract of Brent was trading at $95.17 per barrel, lower by 12.90% from its previous close, while the May contract of West Texas Intermediate fell 14.64% to $96.41 a 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-659921","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\/659921","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=659921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}