{"id":189420,"date":"2025-11-11T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=189420"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:31:15","slug":"why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=189420","title":{"rendered":"Why Oil Prices Look Strong on Paper but Soft in Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil markets are struggling to reconcile geopolitics with fundamentals as headlines push prices one way while physical signals pull in the other direction. The result is a market where Brent spreads and gasoil cracks appear strong on paper, even as North Sea grades compete for premiums and US crude arrives at a discount in Europe&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Crude-Oil\/Why-Oil-Prices-Look-Strong-on-Paper-but-Soft-in-Reality.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil markets are struggling to reconcile geopolitics with fundamentals as headlines push prices one way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189420-why-oil-prices-look-strong-on-paper-but-soft-in-reality-590x300.jpg",590,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}