{"id":329120,"date":"2026-03-09T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/329120\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:46:09","slug":"japans-nikkei-225-share-index-falls-more-than-6-as-oil-soars-over-100-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/329120\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 share index falls more than 6% as oil soars over $100 a barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BANGKOK (AP) \u2014 Japan\u2019s benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunged more than 6% early Monday after oil prices soared to over $100 a barrel due to supply disruptions from the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Nikkei was down 6.2% at 52,166.92 shortly after trading began early Monday. South Korea&#8217;s Kospi sank 6.3% and shares in Australia and New Zealand fell more than 3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The price for a barrel of Brent crude, was at $107.97 shortly after trading resumed Sunday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. That\u2019s 16.5% higher than the international benchmark\u2019s Friday closing price of $92.69.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Crude prices are at their highest level in more than three and a half years. Supply concerns have driven crude and gasoline higher as the war ensnares major oil-producing countries and hinders exports from the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGKOK (AP) \u2014 Japan\u2019s benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunged more than 6% early Monday after oil prices soared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,162521,49628,85,162522,46,3197,6807,162520],"class_list":["post-329120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-chicago-mercantile-exchange","tag-crude-prices","tag-il","tag-international-benchmark","tag-israel","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-oil-prices","tag-war-in-the-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}