{"id":515118,"date":"2026-07-13T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/texas-oil-rises-3-25-after-iran-announces-the-closure-of-the-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:48:22","slug":"texas-oil-rises-3-25-after-iran-announces-the-closure-of-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/economy\/texas-oil-rises-3-25-after-iran-announces-the-closure-of-the-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas oil rises 3.25% after Iran announces the closure of the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New York,.- <\/strong>Texas Intermediate oil <strong>(WTI) <\/strong>rose 3.25% this Monday, to 73.73 dollars, amid fears sparked after Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz <strong>&#8220;until further notice.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 09:00 local time (13:00 GMT), WTI futures contracts for the month of August, the benchmark in the United States, were up 2.32 dollars from Friday&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The oil market is watching with some concern the evolution of the conflict between the United States and Iran after Tehran claimed it has once again blocked passage through the strait following the latest escalation of the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced this Sunday that the strategic enclave will remain closed &#8220;until further notice&#8221; and warned that any foreign interference to open an &#8220;illegal route&#8221; in the region will receive a forceful response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, shortly after, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, assured that the strait remains open to commercial traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Central Command also insisted that the passage is open &#8220;for all vessels&#8221; that wish to transit legally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing,&#8221; the military command defended in a message on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Monday, the president stated that U.S. forces will take control of the strait and noted that his country will become &#8220;the guardian&#8221; of the passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are going to hit them very hard (Iran), and we are going to keep the strait safe, and we are probably going to manage it. We will become the guardian of the strait (&#8230;) And we should be compensated for that,&#8221; Trump stated in a telephone interview with the Fox News network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York,.- Texas Intermediate oil (WTI) rose 3.25% this Monday, to 73.73 dollars, amid fears sparked after Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz &#8220;until further notice.&#8221; At 09:00 local time (13:00 GMT), WTI futures contracts for the month of August, the benchmark in the United States, were up 2.32 dollars from Friday&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":515119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44394,44395],"class_list":["post-515118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-hormuz","tag-texas-oil"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2a0m","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/images-4-2.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Economy"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/images-4-2.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}