{"id":60776,"date":"2026-09-14T21:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-global-trade-and-oil-prices-could-be-hit-by-houthi-advance\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:58:06","slug":"how-global-trade-and-oil-prices-could-be-hit-by-houthi-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-global-trade-and-oil-prices-could-be-hit-by-houthi-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"How global trade and oil prices could be hit by Houthi advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fighters from the Iran-backed Houthi group have seized territory close to the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea &#8211; a key trade gateway that links Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> Houthis have said they pose no threat to international shipping but have reiterated their intention to target vessels from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saudi Arabia has increasingly relied on the Red Sea for oil exports since the US and Israel&#8217;s war effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least 46,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since fighting escalated last week, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Thomas Copeland reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mark Edwards. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cy5z02w1zxxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighters from the Iran-backed Houthi group have seized territory close to the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea &#8211; a key trade gateway that links Asia and Europe. Houthis have said they pose no threat to international shipping but have reiterated their intention to target vessels from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has increasingly relied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[14914,502,129,10863,552,1729,219],"class_list":["post-60776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-advance","tag-global","tag-hit","tag-houthi","tag-oil","tag-prices","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60778,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60776\/revisions\/60778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}