{"id":706727,"date":"2026-07-23T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706727\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:17:08","slug":"oil-prices-rise-for-fifth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706727\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise for fifth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude climbed $1.59, or 1.8 percent, to $88.42, after Wednesday&#8217;s rise of 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Oil \u200bprices rose for a fifth day on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose $2.42, or 2.6 percent, to $96.49 by 0640 GMT, the highest since 8th June, having settled up more than $3 at $94.07 in the previous session, just shy \u200bof a six-week high.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude climbed $1.59, or 1.8 percent, to $88.42, after Wednesday&#8217;s rise of 3 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US West Texas Intermediate crude climbed $1.59, or 1.8 percent, to $88.42, after Wednesday&#8217;s rise of 3 percent.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}