{"id":69071,"date":"2026-01-23T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/23\/oil-edges-up-after-trump-says-big-force-heading-toward-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:22:09","slug":"oil-edges-up-after-trump-says-big-force-heading-toward-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/23\/oil-edges-up-after-trump-says-big-force-heading-toward-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Edges Up After Trump Says &#8216;big Force&#8217; Heading Toward Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Oil edged up on Friday as U.S. President Trump&#8217;s comments about U.S. naval movements toward Iran reignited concerns over potential conflict escalation and supply disruptions in global <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Benchmark Brent crude futures rose a little over 1 percent to $64.71 a barrel and were set for a modest weekly gain. WTI crude futures were up 1 percent at $59.96.<\/p>\n<p>Both contracts fell around 2 percent on Thursday to reach a one-week low amid hopes for a Ukraine peace settlement and persistent global oversupply concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Iran tensions returned to the fore after U.S. President Donald Trump said a U.S. naval &#8220;armada&#8221; was heading toward the Gulf and that the U.S. is closely watching protests, military signals, and rising tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>China called for dialogue and said it hopes all parties will cherish peace, exercise restraint, and resolve differences through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, representatives of the Unites States, Russia and Ukraine are meeting in Dhabi today and tomorrow for unprecedented talks since war began in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said the trilateral talks taking place in the UAE will focus on the status of Ukraine&#8217;s eastern Donbas region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Donbas issue is key. It will be discussed as will be the modality of how the three sides see it,&#8221; he told journalists via a voice message. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/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 Edges Up After Trump Says &#8216;big Force&#8217; Heading Toward Iran<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-23 09:22:09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil edged up on Friday as U.S. President Trump&#8217;s comments about U.S. naval movements toward Iran reignited concerns over potential conflict escalation and supply disruptions in global markets. Benchmark Brent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69072,"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-69071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69071","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=69071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}