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Here’s How Oil Could Climb to $120 a Barrel, Strategists Say
Almost a third of the global seaborne oil trade moves through the Strait of Hormuz. Any interruption could send crude prices ...
Oil-Price Surge Could Complicate U.S. Inflation Fight
A sustained surge in oil prices is likely to complicate the U.S. fight against inflation. A $10-a-barrel increase would boost ...
What’s Fueling Oil Prices? Geopolitics, Not Growth
Rather, it is geopolitical factors—specifically, escalating tensions in the Middle East—that are unsettling markets and ...
Oil prices leap 7% and US stocks slump more than 1% on worries about the crude market
Oil prices leaped, and stocks slumped on worries that escalating violence following Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and ...
Oil prices leap 7% and Dow drops 1.8% on worries about what will happen to the crude market
Oil prices leapt, and stocks fell on worries that escalating violence following Israel's attack on Iranian nuclear and ...
Traders pile into $80 US oil bets as tensions rise in Middle East
Traders on Friday exchanged the most $80 West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil call options since January, expecting more ...
What Israel’s Attack Means for Oil Markets
Oil prices are surging after Israel’s attacks against Iran, with Brent crude futures jumping as high as $78.50 a barrel—their ...
Analysis-OPEC+ Would Struggle to Cover Major Iranian Oil Supply Disruption
Iran has in the past threatened to disrupt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz if it is attacked. The Strait is the exit ...
Oil Market Long Numb to War Risk Confronts Weekend of Worry
The past two years of escalating tensions in the Middle East have taught oil traders to be sanguine about the risk of ...