{"id":29474,"date":"2018-10-26T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29474"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:16:49","slug":"oil-near-multi-year-highs-on-iran-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oil-near-multi-year-highs-on-iran-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil near multi-year highs on Iran sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/oil-near-multi-year-highs-on-iran-sanctions\/article23857098.ece\">Oil near multi-year highs on Iran sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inflation; oil prices<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Oil prices remained near three-and-a-half-year highs on May 11<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Iran produces around 4 percent of global oil supplies<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>top exporter<\/strong> of oil is <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> and the <strong>top producer<\/strong> of oil is <strong>Russia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Since 2017, both Saudi Arabia and Russia have made efforts to withhold oil supplies to prop up prices.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, the United States has withdrawn from the Iran-Nuclear Deal and announced its plan to reimpose sanctions on Iran. This is expected to cause decrease in Iran\u2019s oil supply. As a result, there might be disbalance in the oil market due to undersupply.<\/li>\n<li>Brent Crude figures (the <strong><em>international benchmark for oil prices<\/em><\/strong>) reached its highest ($78\/barrel) since November 2014<\/li>\n<li>Many analysts expect oil prices to rise as Iran\u2019s exports fall.<\/li>\n<li>Further, US\u2019s withdrawal from the deal has raised the risk of conflict in the Middle East. This has heightened the concerns of instability in the oil market.<\/li>\n<li>According to analysts, OPEC and other producers have ability to react to this potential supply disruption. Along with OPEC, rising S. crude oil production may help fill Iran\u2019s supply gap<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil near multi-year highs on Iran sanctions Inflation; oil prices News: Oil prices remained near three-and-a-half-year highs on May 11th Important Facts: Iran produces around 4 percent of global oil supplies The top exporter of oil is Saudi Arabia and the top producer of oil is Russia Since 2017, both Saudi Arabia and Russia have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oil-near-multi-year-highs-on-iran-sanctions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oil near multi-year highs on Iran sanctions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704878324},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}