{"id":2657,"date":"2026-04-29T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepvtimes.synology.me\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:09:16","slug":"oil-rises-5-amid-fears-of-a-prolonged-blockade-in-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/oil-rises-5-amid-fears-of-a-prolonged-blockade-in-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises 5% amid fears of a prolonged blockade in Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Oil prices are sharply rising on Wednesday, with the market now betting on a prolonged blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, a sentiment reinforced by information from the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Oil prices are rising sharply on Wednesday, with the market now betting on a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a sentiment reinforced by information from the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At 1:35 PM GMT (3:35 PM in Paris), the price of a North Sea Brent crude barrel for June delivery rose 5.16% to $117, its highest level since the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran was put in place. Its American equivalent, a West Texas Intermediate barrel for delivery the same month, gained 4.85% to $104.78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices are sharply rising on Wednesday, with the market now betting on a prolonged blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, a sentiment reinforced by information from the Wall Street&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-world","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}