{"id":342827,"date":"2026-03-22T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342827\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:50:08","slug":"live-oil-prices-rise-as-fall-out-from-middle-east-crisis-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342827\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Oil prices rise as fall out from Middle East crisis continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices have risen as the fall out continues from the Middle East crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Crude oil rose about US$1 to be just above US$113 a barrel in early Asia trade.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand share market has retreated sharply, with the benchmark NZX50 down 1.4 percent shortly after 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/590314\/watch-seven-weeks-worth-of-fuel-stocks-in-nz-finance-minister-nicola-willis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand&#8217;s fuels stocks remain at seven weeks&#8217;<\/a> worth, including stockpiles.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel price app Gaspy has altered features in an attempt to avoid errors and deliberate misinformation about current prices of petrol.<\/p>\n<p>And the government has announced a $50 million plan to double electric EV chargers in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the updates in our live blog at the top of this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil prices have risen as the fall out continues from the Middle East crisis. Brent Crude oil rose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-342827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}