{"id":67126,"date":"2026-02-24T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/oil-prices-hit-seven-month-highs-as-tensions-rise-before-us-iran-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:55:15","slug":"oil-prices-hit-seven-month-highs-as-tensions-rise-before-us-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/oil-prices-hit-seven-month-highs-as-tensions-rise-before-us-iran-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices hit seven-month highs as tensions rise before US-Iran talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traders appear to be hedging against worst-case scenario of a conflict between the two nations, analyst says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/24\/trump-new-global-tariffs-trade-latest-business-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil prices have reached seven-month highs, as traders reacted to heightened tensions between the US and Iran ahead of nuclear talks this week.<\/p>\n<p>US crude futures rose to $67.28 a barrel on Monday, while Brent crude touched its highest level since 31 July at $72.50 a barrel. Prices fell back late in the session, but were up again on Tuesday morning, approaching Monday\u2019s highs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/24\/oil-prices-rise-us-iran-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traders appear to be hedging against worst-case scenario of a conflict between the two nations, analyst says Business live \u2013 latest updates Oil prices have reached seven-month highs, as traders reacted to heightened tensions between the US and Iran ahead of nuclear talks this week. US crude futures rose to $67.28 a barrel on Monday, &#8230; <a title=\"Oil prices hit seven-month highs as tensions rise before US-Iran talks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/oil-prices-hit-seven-month-highs-as-tensions-rise-before-us-iran-talks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oil prices hit seven-month highs as tensions rise before US-Iran talks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}