{"id":281218,"date":"2026-09-07T03:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/281218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T03:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:51:19","slug":"singapore-shares-open-lower-as-us-iran-tensions-escalate-pushing-up-oil-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/281218\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Shares Open Lower as US-Iran Tensions Escalate, Pushing Up Oil Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/46566fd7b77307a4dfe2b542c22abd88d85dd65f91f7852a70879d36399d3e10\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefit_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fmt_newswires_sg_265%2Fd7fdc20cbcfd586707d521d2629f998c.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"MT Newswires - Shutterstock\" height=\"403\" width=\"768\" class=\"yf-1f8hkhu loader\"\/><\/a> MT Newswires -Shutterstock           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Singapore shares started the week in negative territory as global oil prices climbed amid renewed tensions between the US and Iran in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The Straits Times Index (STI) opened 9.51 points, or 0.16%, lower on Monday at 5,792.450.<\/p>\n<p>Global crude prices surged after the US military said it struck three Iranian oil tankers after US Navy warships were attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has laid out plans for an &#8220;exclusion zone&#8221; outside the Strait of Hormuz, which will target vessels it believes are attempting to transit the contentious waterway.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT Newswires -Shutterstock Singapore shares started the week in negative territory as global oil prices climbed amid renewed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[31286,328,135,147,3528,31287,755,31289,20412,34,6039,15947,18996,2573,18247,13502,24918,6017,19002,31288,7278,31290,4298,31291],"class_list":["post-281218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-401k","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-iran","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-track-portfolio"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117227728691894452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281218","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=281218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}