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The strikes further hampered the outlook for global energy supplies as the war enters its third week, with a near-complete halt of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz starting to impact consumers, especially in Asia. Oil has risen more than 40% since the war started, but prices fell for the first time in four sessions on Monday as the US prepared to release the first tranche of emergency crude reserves.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a push and a pull constantly dragging the market higher and lower each day, based on the sheer amount of headlines,\u201d Rebecca Babin, a senior energy trader at CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, said on Bloomberg Television. \u201cThis is a market with about 100 stories running at once that\u2019s frantically trying to determine how much supply is off the market and for how long.\u201d<\/p>\n
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When asked in the Oval Office if the war could end this week, President Donald Trump says \u201cI don\u2019t think so, but it\u2019ll be soon.\u201d <\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump threatened to expand strikes on Kharg Island to target oil infrastructure after last weekend sparing energy assets on the key Iranian export hub. He also said Washington is \u201chammering\u201d Tehran\u2019s capacity to threaten commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and reiterated his appeals for help from other nations to secure passage.<\/p>\n
Washington is allowing Iran to continue shipping crude via the waterway, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC.<\/p>\n
In the Middle East, the UAE and Kuwait both reduced oil output further. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are racing to boost exports through alternative routes that bypass Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Transit through the strait is likely to become \u201cincreasingly conditional,\u201d with Iran permitting passage for some vessels depending on their political affiliation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts including Natasha Kaneva said in a note.<\/p>\n
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The number of Iranian ships crossing the waterway jumped to a wartime high on Monday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That included an oil tanker headed for China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) — Oil rose after its first decline in almost a week, as Iran stepped up attacks on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[1824,4503,38,34,1634,39,101,1149],"class_list":["post-22707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-bloomberg","tag-bloomberg-television","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-oil-field","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-west-texas-intermediate"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116242305667436619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}