{"id":87283,"date":"2026-10-08T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87283"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:38:53","slug":"oil-prices-up-as-u-s-considers-more-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/oil-prices-up-as-u-s-considers-more-iran-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Up As U.S. Considers More Iran Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From NBC:<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-156a85\" class=\"body-graf\">The price of oil jumped sharply Thursday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether to resume large-scale U.S. military operations against Iran in the coming weeks.\u00a0Brent crude oil rose more than 5% to more than $105 per barrel in early trading, while U.S. crude oil rose almost 5% to nearly $93 per barrel. Benchmark diesel futures jumped 4.5% in European trading. Heating oil, a proxy for jet fuel, rose more than 4%.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-adf88c\" class=\"body-graf\">The move higher in oil prices also pushed up bond yields. The 10-year Treasury yield, which heavily influences consumer borrowing rates, jumped to 5.35%. That level effectively reversed a drop in yields seen late Wednesday. The yield on every other Treasury bond also rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NBC: The price of oil jumped sharply Thursday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether to resume large-scale U.S. military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87284,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87283\/revisions\/87284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}