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Oil prices soar to four-year high, US chief says closure of Strait of Hormuz \u2018strangling the global economy\u2019<\/a>  NZ HeraldOil price hits highest since 2022 after report Trump to be briefed on new Iran options<\/a>  BBCOil price soars as Trump warns Iran blockade could last months<\/a>  RNZBrent crude surges to $123 a barrel on Iran war worries, while world stocks retreat<\/a>  StuffOil price tops $126 a barrel after Trump warns Iran blockade could last \u2018months\u2019<\/a>  The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil prices soar to four-year high, US chief says closure of Strait of Hormuz \u2018strangling the global economy\u2019  NZ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3390,138,3937,17163,6150,34088,3806,219,208883,3389,14768,337,11785,4999,1437,10938,191,2959,168436,170185,594,35199,208884,4960,10110,17700,111,139,69,1118,4156,27560,8780,12937,312,7806,26213,10811,14042,68703,223,61,7245,3040,4518,1959],"class_list":["post-405576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-best","tag-business","tag-chief","tag-closure","tag-conflict","tag-delivered","tag-east","tag-economy","tag-editorinchief","tag-editors","tag-every","tag-features","tag-fouryear","tag-friday","tag-global","tag-herald","tag-here","tag-high","tag-hormuz","tag-inbox","tag-interviews","tag-investigations","tag-kirkness","tag-live","tag-middle","tag-murray","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-oil","tag-picks","tag-premium","tag-prices","tag-says","tag-sign","tag-soar","tag-straight","tag-strait","tag-strangling","tag-the","tag-to","tag-updates","tag-us","tag-weeks","tag-your"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405576","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=405576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}