{"id":113110,"date":"2026-05-14T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113110\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:34:09","slug":"iraqs-basrah-crude-falls-over-2-despite-global-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113110\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Basrah crude falls over 2% despite global gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-14T06:56:53+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Basrah<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s Basrah crude fell more than 2% on Thursday, diverging from gains in global oil markets.<\/p>\n<p>Basrah Medium crude declined to $107.85 per barrel, down 2.02%, while Basrah Heavy crude fell to $105.75 per barrel, losing 2.06%.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 39 cents, or 0.37%, to $106.02 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate gained 51 cents, or 0.50%, to $101.53. OPEC\u2019s basket price also climbed sharply to $115.09 per barrel, up $7.43, or 6.90%.<\/p>\n<p>The gains in global benchmarks came as markets monitored the summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing for possible signals on the Iran war and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, while Iraqi crude moved against the broader upward trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-14T06:56:53+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Basrah Iraq\u2019s Basrah crude fell more than 2%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2822,152,7158,94,39224,39225],"class_list":{"0":"post-113110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-basrah","9":"tag-breaking","10":"tag-brent","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraqs-basrah-crude-falls-over-2-despite-global-gains","13":"tag-us-west-texas-intermediate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116571777461704563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}