{"id":249512,"date":"2026-04-02T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249512"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:03:41","slug":"oil-prices-rise-following-trumps-speech-on-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249512\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise following Trump\u2019s speech on war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Oil prices rose and shares fell after US President Donald Trump made a primetime televised speech about the Iran war on Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce8lzd4v7zdo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>The price of benchmark Brent crude was trading at about $100 a barrel before the US president started speaking. After the address, Brent jumped by 6.5% to $107.70, while West Texas Intermediate oil rose 5.5% to about $105.70.<\/p>\n<p>Trump called on nations that need oil from the Middle East to take the lead to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, arguing the US doesn&rsquo;t need energy from the region.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose and shares fell after US President Donald Trump made a primetime televised speech about the Iran war on Wednesday, the BBC writes. The price of benchmark Brent crude was trading at about $100 a barrel before the US president started speaking. After the address, Brent jumped by 6.5% to $107.70, while West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249513,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249512\/revisions\/249513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}