{"id":660650,"date":"2026-05-19T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660650"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:04:36","slug":"crude-oil-prices-fall-2-after-trump-calls-off-strike-on-iran-where-are-they-headed-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-fall-2-after-trump-calls-off-strike-on-iran-where-are-they-headed-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices fall 2% after Trump calls off strike on Iran. Where are they headed next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Oil prices declined by more than 2% during early Asian trading on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump announced that he had put a proposed attack on Iran on hold to create room for negotiations aimed at ending the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for July delivery dropped $3.01, or 2.7%, to $109.09 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for June delivery slipped $1.38, or 1.3%, to $107.28 per barrel. In the previous session, both benchmarks had touched their highest levels since May 5 and April 30, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Oil prices declined by more than 2% during early Asian trading on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump announced that he had put a proposed attack on Iran on hold to create room for negotiations aimed at ending the Middle East conflict. Brent crude futures for July delivery dropped $3.01, or 2.7%, to $109.09 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for June delivery slipped $1.38, or 1.3%, to $107.28 per barrel. In the previous session, both benchmarks had touched their highest levels since May 5 and April 30, respectively.<\/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-660650","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\/660650","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=660650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}