{"id":6007,"date":"2008-05-05T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_york_oil_price_crosses_120_dollars_for_first_time\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:37:00","slug":"new_york_oil_price_crosses_120_dollars_for_first_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"New York oil price crosses 120 dollars for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices crossed 120 dollars a barrel here Monday following fresh unrest in Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s largest oil producer.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for June delivery, briefly hit 120.20 dollars, before slipping back at 1520 GMT to 120 dollars, a gain of 3.68 dollars from the closing price on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The price surge came on supply jitters from Nigeria and geopolitical tension in Iran, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>Volumes were light, however, as the British and Japanese markets observed a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nigeria is the lingering hotspot the markets will be focusing on,&#8221; said MF Global analyst Ed Meir.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=080505155615.a4coj6jx&#038;show_article=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices crossed 120 dollars a barrel here Monday following fresh unrest in Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s largest oil producer. New York&#8217;s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for June delivery, briefly hit 120.20 dollars, before slipping back at 1520 GMT<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6007\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-energy-natural-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}