{"id":660402,"date":"2026-05-11T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660402"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:41:43","slug":"oil-jumps-as-strait-of-hormuz-stays-shut-after-trump-rebuffs-irans-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-jumps-as-strait-of-hormuz-stays-shut-after-trump-rebuffs-irans-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil jumps as Strait of Hormuz stays shut after Trump rebuffs Iran\u2019s offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil surged after US President Donald Trump rejected Iran\u2019s latest response to his proposal to end the war in the Middle East, prolonging the effective closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures advanced as much as 4.5% to $105.80 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate traded near $100. In a social media post, Trump said the response was \u201cTOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE\u201d as the two sides struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire following a series of flareups in hostilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil surged after US President Donald Trump rejected Iran\u2019s latest response to his proposal to end the war in the Middle East, prolonging the effective closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures advanced as much as 4.5% to $105.80 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate traded near $100. In a social media post, Trump said the response was \u201cTOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE\u201d as the two sides struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire following a series of flareups in hostilities.<\/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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660402","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=660402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660403,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660402\/revisions\/660403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}