{"id":3860,"date":"2026-05-04T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:03:00","slug":"oil-up-3-after-escalating-tensions-in-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3860","title":{"rendered":"Oil up 3% after escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>contracts<\/b> for the future performance of slow <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/petrelaio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil contracts<\/b> reduce rise more than<b> 4%, w<\/b>after reports that <b>two missiles<\/b> hit a <b>US warshipwhich ignored <b>Iran&#8217;s warnings<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC Navy also published a<b> new map<\/b> defining areas of the<b> Sea of Hormuz<\/b> that are under Iranian military control.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <b>Donald trump<\/b> said the US would try to &#8220;free&#8221; cargo ships that have been stranded due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war with Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <b>OPEC+<\/b> agreed to a symbolic increase in June production quotas, signalling a business as usual stance following the United Arab Emirates&#8217; withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The Brent (July) contract is <b>down 3.20%,<\/b>at $112.20 a barrel on <b>Wednesday<\/b> (13:30 GMT), while US West Texas Intermediate crude (June contract) is down 2.96% at $104.96 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil futures are up more than 4%, after reports that two missiles hit a US &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}