{"id":6590,"date":"2026-07-20T07:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:19:30","slug":"federal-government-decides-to-continue-austerity-measures-to-control-expenditures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=6590","title":{"rendered":"Here is the English translation in a writing block:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Crude Oil Prices Reach One-Month High Amid Rising Tensions in the Middle East<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Global crude oil prices rose by nearly <strong>3 percent<\/strong> today as escalating tensions between the <strong>United States and Iran<\/strong> fueled concerns over energy supplies in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an international news agency, <strong>Brent crude<\/strong> climbed by <strong>US$2.77<\/strong>, or <strong>3.14 percent<\/strong>, to <strong>US$90.87 per barrel<\/strong>, its highest level since <strong>June 11<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brent crude gained <strong>15.9 percent<\/strong> over the past week, marking its largest weekly increase since <strong>April<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, <strong>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI)<\/strong> crude rose by <strong>US$2.35<\/strong>, or <strong>2.85 percent<\/strong>, to <strong>US$84.84 per barrel<\/strong>, its highest level since <strong>June 12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WTI prices increased by <strong>15.5 percent<\/strong> last week, recording the strongest weekly gain since early <strong>March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retail gasoline prices in the United States also increased, with the average price rising to <strong>more than US$4.00 per gallon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an international news agency, gasoline prices in the United States have risen by <strong>more than 30 percent<\/strong> since the outbreak of the U.S.\u2013Iran conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are currently no signs of de-escalation in tensions between Iran and the United States. The United States carried out additional strikes against Iran last night, while Iran responded by launching attacks on U.S. targets in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude Oil Prices Reach One-Month High Amid Rising Tensions in the Middle East Global crude oil prices rose by nearly 3 percent today as escalating..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438378_654157_updates.jpg",700,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438378_654157_updates-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438378_654157_updates-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438378_654157_updates.jpg",700,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438378_654157_updates.jpg",700,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438378_654157_updates.jpg",700,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438378_654157_updates.jpg",700,400,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Business<\/a>","tag_info":"Business","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6648,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions\/6648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}