{"id":42703,"date":"2022-01-26T23:12:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=42703"},"modified":"2022-01-26T23:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:12:38","slug":"brent-crude-tops-90-per-barrel-first-time-since-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/01\/26\/brent-crude-tops-90-per-barrel-first-time-since-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Crude Tops $90 Per Barrel First Time Since 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Global oil prices increased by almost 2 percent on Wednesday, and benchmark futures for Brent crude rose above $90 per barrel for the first time since 13 October 2014.As of 15:53 GMT, the price of March futures for Brent crude grew by 1.88 percent to $89.86 per barrel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes earlier, the price reached $90.02.The price of April futures for Brent rose by 1.85 percent to $88.79, the price of March futures for WTI was up 1.96 percent to $87.28.Oil prices are increasing amid growing tensions between Russia and NATO over the situation in Ukraine&#8217;s east and fears that energy supplies from Russia to Europe may be disrupted should escalation continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nEarlier this week, a tense geopolitical situation sent global stock markets down, with the S&amp;P 500 losing 2.53 percent, NASDAQ retreating 2.89 percent, and the Dow Jones losing 2.09 percent.<a><\/a><a><\/a><a><\/a><a><\/a><a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices increased by almost 2 percent on Wednesday, and benchmark futures for Brent crude rose above $90 per barrel for the first time since 13 October 2014.As of 15:53 GMT, the price of March futures for Brent crude grew by 1.88 percent to $89.86 per barrel. Minutes earlier, the price reached $90.02.The price &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-economy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42705,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703\/revisions\/42705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}