Tag: Strait of Hormuz

Oil markets opened the week still simmering from the weekend's dramatic escalation in the Gulf, with crude prices hovering near six-week highs after a fresh round of tit-for-tat strikes on ...

Oil prices retreated on Thursday, pulling back from a volatile session a day earlier, as traders tried to gauge how far the latest flare-up between the United States and Iran ...

Oil prices closed flat on Wednesday after briefly hitting one-month highs, as traders weighed fears of supply disruption from overnight U.S.-Iran strikes against signs that crude was still flowing steadily ...

Oil markets jolted higher on Tuesday after Washington and Tehran traded direct fire for the first time in more than a month, reviving anxiety that the world's most important oil ...

Crude oil surged Monday after a US strike on an Iranian position in the Strait of Hormuz drew Iranian retaliation against US forces in Jordan, deepening a six-month-old war and ...

Oil prices extended their slide for a fourth straight session on Thursday, with traders betting that renewed diplomacy between Tehran and Doha could finally pry open the Strait of Hormuz ...

Crude oil hit a two-week low on Wednesday, as fresh Iran-Oman talks over the Strait of Hormuz raised hopes that traffic through one of the world's key oil chokepoints could ...

Oil markets pushed further into positive territory on Thursday, marking a fifth consecutive session of gains as traders grew increasingly convinced that the stalemate over Iran shows no sign of ...

Oil prices surged to their highest levels in three weeks on Wednesday, as persistent uncertainty over the safety of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz combined with wider supply disruptions ...

Iran's parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf issued his toughest warning yet on Tuesday, saying the Strait of Hormuz, a carrier of roughly a fifth of the world's ...