{"id":659969,"date":"2026-04-09T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659969"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:45:02","slug":"crude-oil-prices-gain-as-strait-of-hormuz-uncertainty-offsets-ceasefire-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-gain-as-strait-of-hormuz-uncertainty-offsets-ceasefire-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices gain as Strait of Hormuz uncertainty offsets ceasefire relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: After a sharp 15% fall, crude prices rebounded early Thursday following uncertainty over the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for one-fifth of global oil supplies.<\/p>\n<p>At 8.30 am, the June contract of Brent on the Intercontinental Exchange was trading at $96.80 per barrel, higher by 2.16% from its previous close. The May contract of the West Texas Intermediate on the NYMEX rose 2.85% to $97.10 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: After a sharp 15% fall, crude prices rebounded early Thursday following uncertainty over the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for one-fifth of global oil supplies. At 8.30 am, the June contract of Brent on the Intercontinental Exchange was trading at $96.80 per barrel, higher by 2.16% from its previous close. The May contract of the West Texas Intermediate on the NYMEX rose 2.85% to $97.10 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-659969","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\/659969","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=659969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}