{"id":70405,"date":"2026-02-26T09:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/26\/oil-holds-steady-as-geneva-talks-begin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:29:04","slug":"oil-holds-steady-as-geneva-talks-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/26\/oil-holds-steady-as-geneva-talks-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Holds Steady As Geneva Talks Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Oil prices hovered near seven-month highs on Thursday as the third round of nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran kicked off in Geneva against a backdrop of continued mistrust. <\/p>\n<p>Benchmark Brent crude futures edged up by 0.1 percent to $70.78 a barrel while WTI crude futures were little changed at $65.45.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the meeting, the U.S. imposed sanctions on more than 30 individuals, companies and vessels linked to Tehran&#8217;s oil trade.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran possessed a very large number of ballistic missiles that threaten U.S. interests in the region and it was trying to develop weapons that can reach the continental United States.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance said Tehran should take Washington&#8217;s threats of military action seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The principle is very simple: Iran can&#8217;t have a nuclear weapon. If they try to rebuild a nuclear weapon, that causes problems for us,&#8221; he told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Investors remain concerned over a potential military confrontation in the region that risks supply disruptions. <\/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 Holds Steady As Geneva Talks Begin<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-26 09:29:04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hovered near seven-month highs on Thursday as the third round of nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran kicked off in Geneva against a backdrop of continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70406,"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-70405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405","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=70405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}