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Brent settled at $88.52 on Friday after a week of tanker attacks and no diplomatic movement. Washington's plan is to wait Tehran out —...
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The world isn't short of oil — it's short of refineries, and two wars are why cheap crude won't mean cheap gas anytime soon.
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A European intelligence report seen by Reuters warns Russia faces an 'explosive' banking crisis that one ambitious sanctions package could trigger — as the...
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Commercial transits through the Strait of Hormuz have fallen to near-zero since fighting resumed — from roughly 140 ships daily before the war to...
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Is it time to tax oil windfalls?: The year’s numerous oil price spikes, mostly related to the stop-and-start war in Iran, have put a...
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Trump declared America 'The Guardian of the Hormuz Strait' and demanded a 20 percent charge on cargo — then reversed within a day, shifting...
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Despite Trump declaring the Strait of Hormuz open and safe, shipping companies are refusing the U.S. military's guided-transit escorts and delaying voyages, seven maritime...
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Dr. Andrew Latham argues the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — down 99 million barrels to a 1983 low, worth about sixteen days of prewar Hormuz...
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Trump's 20% Hormuz toll survived barely a day before being swapped for Gulf investment deals — a reversal the piece likens to his tariff...
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Ukraine's strike on Omsk — Russia's largest refinery, 400,000 barrels a day, once thought too deep to reach — caps a deliberate strategy: hit...