{"id":660672,"date":"2026-05-19T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660672"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:03:56","slug":"oil-prices-slip-crude-prices-fall-over-2-after-trump-calls-for-diplomacy-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slip-crude-prices-fall-over-2-after-trump-calls-for-diplomacy-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slip: Crude prices fall over 2% after Trump calls for diplomacy with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said that a planned attack on Iran had been paused to allow talks aimed at ending the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude for July delivery dropped by $3.01, or 2.7%, to $109.09 per barrel at 0001 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery also fell by $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>Oil prices fell on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said that a planned attack on Iran had been paused to allow talks aimed at ending the Middle East conflict. Brent crude for July delivery dropped by $3.01, or 2.7%, to $109.09 per barrel at 0001 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery also fell by $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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660672","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\/660672","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=660672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}