Oil Prices Strike $100 a Barrel Amid Escalating Middle East Warfare
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By John Towfighi, CNN World oil prices were back at US$ 100 per barrel, their highest level since July, because fighting in the Middle East raised concerns about possible prolonged interruptions in supply.Brent crude, the world's benchmark, rose by 2.3% early on Wednesday,
Oil prices strike $100 a barrel amid escalating Middle East warfare
Fears of extended petroleum supply interruptions stemming from Middle Eastern hostilities have pushed global crude values back to $100 a barrel. The recent price spike follows military clashes in the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea, as reported by [XXXXX]. Soaring energy costs are now putting renewed pressure on consumers and central banks alike. The post Oil prices strike $100 a barrel amid escalating Middle East warfare appeared first on www.isra…
Seven weeks later, the price of the Brent oil barrel (the benchmark in Europe) has once again exceeded the $100 barrier, a new milestone that brings even closer the possibility that the world will end up facing an inflationary spiral equivalent to that of 2022 (when prices rose double-digit in a year in Spain) and will give more arguments to central banks around the world to tighten their monetary policy. Tomorrow, it is the turn of the European…
Around 07:30 GMT, the price of the Brent barrel of the North Sea, for delivery in November, was 2.02% at $99.90, after having briefly received a higher price at $100.19.
Brent reacted this Wednesday on high to sharpen the conflict in the Strait of Ormuz and got traded, for a few moments, to $100.19 per barrel, a level that had been reached for the last time at the end of May.
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