{"id":46781,"date":"2019-06-20T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46781"},"modified":"2019-06-20T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:00:10","slug":"oil-prices-spike-most-in-5-months-as-us-iran-tensions-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46781","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Spike Most In 5 Months As US-Iran Tensions Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-06-20\/oil-prices-spike-most-5-months-us-iran-tensions-soar\">Oil Prices Spike Most In 5 Months As US-Iran Tensions Soar<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>WTI and Brent prices spiked overnight on the headlines about a US drone being shot down by Iran, and just legged higher once again following Trump&#8217;s tweet warning that &#8220;Iran made a very big mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em><strong>\u201cGeopolitics is helping oil bulls to make a spectacular come-back after a few days\u2019 of directionless trading,\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>said&nbsp;Tamas Varga, an analyst at PVM Oil Associates Ltd. in London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>WTI now trades at its highest since May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2019-06-20_7-31-11.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not Enough Proof to Blame Iran for Oil Tanker Attack: Energy Aspects<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil Prices Spike Most In 5 Months As US-Iran Tensions Soar WTI and Brent prices spiked overnight on the headlines about a US drone being shot down by Iran, and just legged higher once again following Trump&#8217;s tweet warning that &#8220;Iran made a very big mistake.&#8221; \u201cGeopolitics is helping oil bulls to make a spectacular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[441,588],"class_list":["post-46781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46782,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46781\/revisions\/46782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}