{"id":53966,"date":"2026-02-21T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=53966"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:00:46","slug":"oil-prices-rise-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=53966","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threats against Iran, a major oil producer in the Middle East, sparking fears of military action that could disrupt supplies.<\/p>\n<p>By 10:30 Algeria time, Brent crude futures for March delivery rose by 1.05% to $64.73 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose by 1.11% to $60.02 per barrel. Both benchmarks had fallen by about 2% on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Prices increased after Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that the United States has a &#8220;war fleet&#8221; heading toward Iran, though he hoped he would not have to use it. He also renewed his warnings to Tehran against killing protesters or resuming its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks are on track for weekly gains of about 0.6% after prices rose earlier in the week following Trump&#8217;s threats to invade Greenland.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabqpress.dz\/%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d9%81%d8%b7-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threats against Iran, a major oil producer in the Middle East, sparking fears of military action that could disrupt supplies. By 10:30 Algeria time, Brent crude futures for March delivery rose by 1.05% to $64.73 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}