{"id":223569,"date":"2026-05-03T09:54:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223569"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:54:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:54:37","slug":"oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223569","title":{"rendered":"Oil price tops $126 a barrel after Trump warns Iran blockade could last \u2018months\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Markets spooked as US president appears willing to keep up naval blockade and Iran keeps Hormuz strait all but shutBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesThe global oil price has soared above $126 a barrel, its highest level since 2022, after Donald Trump warned the US blockade of Iranian ports could last for months and peace talks remained stalled.After surging more than 13% in 24 hours&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/30\/oil-price-news-highest-since-2022-us-iran-ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markets spooked as US president appears willing to keep up naval blockade and Iran keeps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223569-oil-price-tops-126-a-barrel-after-trump-warns-iran-blockade-could-last-months.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223569","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=223569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}