{"id":6459,"date":"2026-07-28T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:44:44","slug":"middle-east-u-s-oil-barrel-falls-below-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/middle-east-u-s-oil-barrel-falls-below-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East: U.S. oil barrel falls below $80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Oil prices fell on Tuesday, with WTI, the US benchmark barrel, dropping below $80, as the calm in Middle East hostilities continues and Donald Trump said Monday that talks with Tehran had &#8216;a good chance&#8217; of succeeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Oil prices fell on Tuesday, with the WTI, the US benchmark barrel, dropping below $80, as the calm in Middle East hostilities continued and Donald Trump said on Monday that talks with Tehran had a &#8216;good chance&#8217; of succeeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At 08:55 GMT (10:55 in Paris), the West Texas Intermediate barrel for September delivery was down 3.05% at $80.09, after briefly hitting $79.80. The North Sea Brent barrel for September delivery lost 3.69% to $85.10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Tuesday, with WTI, the US benchmark barrel, dropping below $80, as the calm in Middle East hostilities continues and Donald Trump said Monday that talks with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","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=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}