{"id":24508,"date":"2026-10-22T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/brent-crude-rises-to-111-23-after-sharp-swings\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:01:15","slug":"brent-crude-rises-to-111-23-after-sharp-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/brent-crude-rises-to-111-23-after-sharp-swings\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent crude rises to $111.23 after sharp swings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude oil rose 2.21% to $111.23 per barrel in December 2026 contract trading.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the analytical website OilPrice, the price was recorded at 12:45 a.m. US Central Time on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, representing an increase of $2.41 from the benchmark price.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices have seen significant volatility in recent days and, after repeated ups and downs, have once again returned to the above-$111 range.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the main reason for the price increase is geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and concerns over the possibility of disruptions to global oil supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude climbed to $111.23 a barrel after sharp volatility, driven by Middle East tensions and supply concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}