{"id":88534,"date":"2026-05-04T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/?p=88534"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:51:19","slug":"oil-prices-fall-after-washington-announces-release-of-ships-stuck-in-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/oil-prices-fall-after-washington-announces-release-of-ships-stuck-in-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall after Washington announces release of ships stuck in Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"42\">Oil prices declined in early trading today<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"226\">Oil markets recorded a decline in early trading today, following an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump launching an operation to free ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"366\">In this context, Brent crude futures fell by 64 cents, or 0.59%, reaching $107.53 per barrel, after dropping $2.23 at Friday\u2019s settlement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"368\" data-end=\"511\">As for U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude, it recorded a decrease of 84 cents, or 0.82%, reaching $101.10 per barrel, after losing $3.13.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"759\">United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<br data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"548\" \/>An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, aiming to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world, convey the truth, and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"761\" data-end=\"825\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">For more news, you can visit our homepage:<br data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"806\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"806\" data-end=\"825\" data-is-last-node=\"\">https:\/\/un-news.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices declined in early trading today Oil markets recorded a decline in early trading today, following an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump launching an operation to free ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz. In this context, Brent crude futures fell by 64 cents, or 0.59%, reaching $107.53 per barrel, after dropping $2.23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economic-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88535,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88534\/revisions\/88535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}