{"id":73723,"date":"2026-05-21T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/21\/oil-prices-little-changed-after-a-sharp-slump\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:47:41","slug":"oil-prices-little-changed-after-a-sharp-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/21\/oil-prices-little-changed-after-a-sharp-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Little Changed After A Sharp Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Oil prices were little changed on Thursday, after having fallen over 5 percent in the previous session amid optimism over a possible easing of Middle East tensions.<br \/>Brent crude futures for July delivery were down 0.3 percent at $104.72 a barrel while WTI crude futures slipped 0.2 percent to $98.07.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">Both benchmarks dropped around 5.6 percent on Wednesday to their lowest in more than a week amid expectations for a near-term restart of energy flows through the critical Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is part of our premium content offering.Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Now<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Prices Little Changed After A Sharp Slump<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-05-21 09:47:41<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were little changed on Thursday, after having fallen over 5 percent in the previous session amid optimism over a possible easing of Middle East tensions.Brent crude futures for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73723","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=73723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}