{"id":308319,"date":"2026-07-24T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=308319"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:00:06","slug":"crude-oil-prices-likely-to-rise-by-100-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/crude-oil-prices-likely-to-rise-by-100-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices likely to rise by $100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The escalating crisis in the Middle East has led to a sharp rise in crude oil prices. Today, it has crossed $100 per barrel. <\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the price of crude oil has reached this level since May. In the last 20 days, the price of crude oil has increased by 42 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The Houthi rebels have opened a new front in the Middle East. They are targeting Saudi ships in the Red Sea. This is the reason why the price of crude oil has increased. <\/p>\n<p>The Red Sea has also been blockaded after the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthi rebels are wreaking havoc in the Red Sea. <\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia was shipping its oil through the Red Sea due to the closure of Strait Strait. But now this route has also been closed. This has led to an increase in the price of crude oil. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.08 percent to trade at $100.8 a barrel in early trade on Friday. U.S. WTI crude was trading 0.31% higher at $92.48 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>According to experts, if the situation in the Middle East does not improve, the price of crude oil could reach $ 120 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The escalating crisis in the Middle East has led to a sharp rise in crude oil prices. Today, it has crossed $100 per barrel. This is the first time the price of crude oil has reached this level since May. In the last 20 days, the price of crude oil has increased by 42 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":260212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308320,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308319\/revisions\/308320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/260212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}