{"id":659929,"date":"2026-04-08T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659929"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:15:48","slug":"oil-prices-today-crude-falls-below-100-as-trump-announces-two-week-ceasefire-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-today-crude-falls-below-100-as-trump-announces-two-week-ceasefire-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices today: Crude falls below $100 as Trump announces two-week ceasefire with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell sharply on Wednesday with Brent crude and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude both slipping below the $100 per barrel mark after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, subject to the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of trade, Brent crude dropped 13.6 per cent to $94.43 per barrel, while WTI plunged over 14.3 per cent to $96.82 per barrel, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell sharply on Wednesday with Brent crude and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude both slipping below the $100 per barrel mark after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, subject to the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. In the early hours of trade, Brent crude dropped 13.6 per cent to $94.43 per barrel, while WTI plunged over 14.3 per cent to $96.82 per barrel, Reuters reported.<\/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-659929","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\/659929","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=659929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}