{"id":660628,"date":"2026-05-18T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660628"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:42:04","slug":"crude-oil-prices-rise-for-third-session-straight-amid-us-iran-war-uncertainty-brent-crude-above-110-bbl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-rise-for-third-session-straight-amid-us-iran-war-uncertainty-brent-crude-above-110-bbl\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices rise for third session straight amid US-Iran war uncertainty; Brent crude above $110\/bbl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Oil prices extended gains to a third straight session on Monday, 18 May, as President Donald Trump renewed pressure on Iran to strike a deal aimed at ending weeks of conflict and reopening the strategically important Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose $2.03, or 1.86%, to $111.29 per barrel after hitting an intraday high of $112 earlier in the session, marking the highest level since May 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Oil prices extended gains to a third straight session on Monday, 18 May, as President Donald Trump renewed pressure on Iran to strike a deal aimed at ending weeks of conflict and reopening the strategically important Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures rose $2.03, or 1.86%, to $111.29 per barrel after hitting an intraday high of $112 earlier in the session, marking the highest level since May 5.<\/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-660628","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\/660628","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=660628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}