{"id":660353,"date":"2026-05-05T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660353"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:34:19","slug":"crude-beyond-120-oil-prices-touch-four-year-peak-heres-what-analysts-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-beyond-120-oil-prices-touch-four-year-peak-heres-what-analysts-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude beyond $120: Oil prices touch four-year peak, here&#8217;s what analysts are saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices soared to a four-year peak on Thursday before retreating, as fears over the intensifying US-Iran war rattled global energy markets and fueled concerns over disruption in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, briefly climbed to $126.41 a barrel overnight, its highest level in four years, before easing back to $115.8 as market activity slowed. Meanwhile, WTI crude fell 0.7% to $106 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the decline, Brent remains significantly above its pre-war level of $73 a barrel and has nearly doubled since the start of the year, when tensions between Washington and Tehran began escalating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices soared to a four-year peak on Thursday before retreating, as fears over the intensifying US-Iran war rattled global energy markets and fueled concerns over disruption in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, briefly climbed to $126.41 a barrel overnight, its highest level in four years, before easing back to $115.8 as market activity slowed. Meanwhile, WTI crude fell 0.7% to $106 a barrel. Even after the decline, Brent remains significantly above its pre-war level of $73 a barrel and has nearly doubled since the start of the year, when tensions between Washington and Tehran [&hellip;]<\/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-660353","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\/660353","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=660353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}