{"id":660063,"date":"2026-04-13T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660063"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:28:16","slug":"oil-prices-skyrocket-past-100-after-us-announces-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-brent-jumps-7-wti-climbs-to-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-skyrocket-past-100-after-us-announces-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-brent-jumps-7-wti-climbs-to-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices skyrocket past $100 after US announces Strait of Hormuz blockade; Brent jumps 7%, WTI climbs to $104"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil markets opened sharply higher, surging past the $100 per barrel mark once again after US President Donald Trump announced that a blockade of Iranian ports would begin from Monday (local time).<\/p>\n<p>US crude oil or WTI skyrocketed 8% to $104.24 per barrel, while Brent crude, the global benchmark, soared 7% to $102.29 in early trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil markets opened sharply higher, surging past the $100 per barrel mark once again after US President Donald Trump announced that a blockade of Iranian ports would begin from Monday (local time). US crude oil or WTI skyrocketed 8% to $104.24 per barrel, while Brent crude, the global benchmark, soared 7% to $102.29 in early trading.<\/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-660063","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\/660063","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=660063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}