Oil rises on intensifying US-Iran hostilities, threat of Red Sea closure

Oil prices rose on Friday (July 17) after the U.S. and Iran stepped up attacks across the Gulf, with their broken truce limiting oil flows out of the Strait of Hormuz and with Tehran asking the Houthi political and military organisation to stand ready to shut the Red Sea export route.

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