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Oil Traders Rediscover That Geography Has Pricing Power
· New York time
Oil prices climbed as traders assessed Middle East developments. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said naval mines had prevented three tankers from passing through the Strait of Hormuz. That claim puts a major energy transport route at the center of market attention. For US readers, the relevance is the connection between international shipping conditions and the wider oil market. The movement is not a forecast of what comes next. It is a reminder that an energy market with global ambitions still depends on ships getting through particular stretches of water. Geography keeps declining requests to become optional.
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