{"id":64990,"date":"2026-09-11T09:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=64990"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:06:58","slug":"oil-prices-set-to-end-week-above-100-for-first-time-in-nearly-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/09\/11\/oil-prices-set-to-end-week-above-100-for-first-time-in-nearly-4-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Set to End Week Above $100 for First Time in Nearly 4 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oil prices rose on Friday and both major benchmarks are on track to end the week above $100 a barrel for the \u200cfirst time since mid-May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 81 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $108.44 a barrel by 03:45 GMT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude rose 69 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $103.17 a barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both benchmarks rose more than 6 percent on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a weekly basis, the benchmarks were trading nearly 13 percent higher \u2014 the steepest gain since the week ended 17th July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday and both major benchmarks are on track to end the week above $100 a barrel for the \u200cfirst time since mid-May. Brent crude futures rose 81 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $108.44 a barrel by 03:45 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose 69 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $103.17 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64992,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990\/revisions\/64992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}