{"id":68739,"date":"2026-01-15T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/15\/oil-prices-tumble-as-geopolitical-tensons-ease\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:27:54","slug":"oil-prices-tumble-as-geopolitical-tensons-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/15\/oil-prices-tumble-as-geopolitical-tensons-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Tumble As Geopolitical Tensons Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Oil prices fell for the first time in six days on Thursday amid easing geopolitical tensions. <\/p>\n<p>Benchmark Brent crude futures fell nearly 3 percent to $64.53 a barrel while WTI crude futures were down 3.1 percent at $60.12.<\/p>\n<p>Fears of an imminent U.S. action against Iran ebbed as U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to soften rhetoric against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he had received information &#8220;on good authority&#8221; that Iran has stayed fast trials and executions of protesters, signaling he may hold off on attacking the country for now. <\/p>\n<p>Iran, however, has pushed back, threatening to strike U.S. military bases and Israel if Washington interferes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that discussions at the White House with U.S. vice-president J.D. Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio were &#8220;frank but constructive&#8221;, stressing that any proposal undermining Danish sovereignty or Greenland&#8217;s right to self-determination was &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. control of Greenland is &#8220;vital&#8221; for the country&#8217;s planned Golden Dome air and missile defense system, Trump said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted against a resolution that was aimed at curbing President Trump&#8217;s authority to launch strikes on Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote on a point of order that halted the war powers resolution. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Oil Prices Tumble As Geopolitical Tensons Ease<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-15 09:27:54<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell for the first time in six days on Thursday amid easing geopolitical tensions. Benchmark Brent crude futures fell nearly 3 percent to $64.53 a barrel while WTI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1585504256855-6718f7a693ae?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=934&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}