{"id":660893,"date":"2026-05-29T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660893"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:09:07","slug":"oil-prices-settle-in-mixed-direction-on-conflicting-reports-of-us-iran-ceasefire-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-settle-in-mixed-direction-on-conflicting-reports-of-us-iran-ceasefire-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices settle in mixed direction on conflicting reports of US-Iran ceasefire deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices settled mixed on Thursday after a choppy trading session, as traders mulled conflicting reports of progress on a potential deal to extend a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for July, which expire on Friday&#8217;s settlement, closed down 58 cents, or 0.6%, at $93.71 a barrel. The more actively traded August Brent futures were last trading up by 72 cents at $92.97 as of 3:20 p.m. EDT (1720 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices settled mixed on Thursday after a choppy trading session, as traders mulled conflicting reports of progress on a potential deal to extend a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Brent crude futures for July, which expire on Friday&#8217;s settlement, closed down 58 cents, or 0.6%, at $93.71 a barrel. The more actively traded August Brent futures were last trading up by 72 cents at $92.97 as of 3:20 p.m. EDT (1720 GMT).<\/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-660893","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\/660893","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=660893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660894,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660893\/revisions\/660894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}