{"id":79452,"date":"2026-10-08T09:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/10\/08\/oil-prices-surge-on-fears-of-us-iran-escalation-us-hurricane-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:55:02","slug":"oil-prices-surge-on-fears-of-us-iran-escalation-us-hurricane-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/10\/08\/oil-prices-surge-on-fears-of-us-iran-escalation-us-hurricane-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Surge On Fears Of US-Iran Escalation, US Hurricane Threat"},"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 surged nearly 4 percent on Thursday amid heightened concerns of U.S.-Iran war escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude prices were up 4.1 percent at $104.32 a barrel, reversing losses from the previous session after reports suggested that the White House asked Pentagon to develop options to strike Iran before the midterm elections, but no final decision has been made. <\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">WTI crude futures soared 4 percent to $91.83 a barrel amid the threat of a hurricane off the U.S. coast. Tropical Storm Isaias is expected to reach the U.S, Gulf Coast late Friday as a hurricane. <\/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 available exclusively to RTT Biotech Investor and Intelligent Investor subscribers. Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Start Free Trial<\/p>\n<p>FREE 7-Day Trial &#8211; No Payment Required<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 Surge On Fears Of US-Iran Escalation, US Hurricane Threat<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-10-08 09:55:02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged nearly 4 percent on Thursday amid heightened concerns of U.S.-Iran war escalation. Brent crude prices were up 4.1 percent at $104.32 a barrel, reversing losses from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79453,"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-79452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79452","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=79452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/79453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}