{"id":79698,"date":"2026-10-08T04:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/oil-prices-rise-sharply-on-middle-east-tensions-and-us-hurricane-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:57:17","slug":"oil-prices-rise-sharply-on-middle-east-tensions-and-us-hurricane-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/oil-prices-rise-sharply-on-middle-east-tensions-and-us-hurricane-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global bond market sell-off continues and stocks fall amid another wave of potential strikes against Iran<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/oct\/08\/oil-prices-rise-shipping-attacks-rate-rise-uk-housing-market-bank-england-latest-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil prices have risen sharply amid fears about escalating tensions in the Middle East and a squeeze on production from the threat of a hurricane off the US coast.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose by 3.8% to $104 a barrel on Thursday, triggering a wave of selling in the global bond and stock markets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/oct\/08\/oil-prices-rise-middle-east-tensions-us-hurricane-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global bond market sell-off continues and stocks fall amid another wave of potential strikes against Iran Business live \u2013 latest updates Oil prices have risen sharply amid fears about escalating tensions in the Middle East and a squeeze on production from the threat of a hurricane off the US coast. Brent crude, the international benchmark, &#8230; <a title=\"Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/oil-prices-rise-sharply-on-middle-east-tensions-and-us-hurricane-threat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79698","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=79698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}