{"id":660137,"date":"2026-04-15T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660137"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:09:56","slug":"crude-oil-prices-fall-for-second-day-on-renewed-hopes-for-us-iran-truce-talks-what-lies-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-fall-for-second-day-on-renewed-hopes-for-us-iran-truce-talks-what-lies-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices fall for second day on renewed hopes for US-Iran truce talks. What lies ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices declined for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, April 15, amid expectations that US-Iran peace talks could resume, potentially easing supply constraints from the key Middle East region affected by the Strait of Hormuz closure.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures slipped 52 cents, or 0.55%, to $94.27 a barrel, following a 4.6% drop in the previous session. Meanwhile, US West Texas Intermediate crude fell $1.04, or 1.1%, to $90.24 after plunging 7.9% a day before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices declined for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, April 15, amid expectations that US-Iran peace talks could resume, potentially easing supply constraints from the key Middle East region affected by the Strait of Hormuz closure. Brent crude futures slipped 52 cents, or 0.55%, to $94.27 a barrel, following a 4.6% drop in the previous session. Meanwhile, US West Texas Intermediate crude fell $1.04, or 1.1%, to $90.24 after plunging 7.9% a day before.<\/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-660137","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\/660137","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=660137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660138,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660137\/revisions\/660138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}