After the Bell: Strait of Hormuz Trump card hints that humans are driving markets
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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“Brent Crude was well above $100”
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Multiple independent news sources (The Hindu, Supplychaindigital, TASS, Daily Maverick, and EuroNews) all report that Brent crude oil prices exceeded or held near $100 per barrel.
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— Brent Crude is the trading classification for the types of petroleum—sweet crude oil and light crude oil—first extracted from the Brent oilfield in the North Sea in 1976. The term Brent Crude also ide…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Crude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Crude
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— The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (42 U.S. gallons; 159 liters) of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as We…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_oil
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— West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a grade or mix of crude oil; the term is also used to refer to the spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for that oil. In colloquial usage, WTI usually refe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate
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“US President Donald Trump... played an UNO reverse card of blockading the ships that are granted rite of passage through the already choked Strait of Hormuz.”
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Wikipedia and web search results confirm that Donald Trump imposed a counter-blockade of ships using Iranian ports on April 13, 2026, in response to Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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— From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second pres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…
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— Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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— The religious views of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, have been a matter for discussion among observers and the American public. Trump was raised in his Scottish-born …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_religion
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“This caused the oil price to spike”
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Multiple sources link the conflict and blockades to oil price spikes. The Guardian reports oil prices topped $126 a barrel after Trump warned the blockade could last months, and other sources mention soaring oil prices caused by the war and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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— Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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— On 19 March 2026, the United States began an aerial campaign against Iranian targets to reopen the Strait of Hormuz following its closure by Iran in response to the attacks by the United States and Is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_campaign
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— The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
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