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Oil on track for record monthly surge as Iran war disrupts markets

The Guardian · · 666 words · By Graeme Wearden
Energy Markets Geopolitical Conflict
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“The Brent crude oil price is on track for its biggest monthly gain on record in March after the Iran war caused mayhem in the markets.”
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The evidence references a 2026 Iran war (Wikipedia) conflicting with the claim's 2023 timeframe. No historical data supports March 2023 price spikes from this conflict.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Crude
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Iran war, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has led to what the International Energy Agency has characterized as the "largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_2026_Ir…
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“Brent crude, the international benchmark, has climbed by 51% since the start of March, LSEG data shows, beating the previous monthly record of 46% in September 1990 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, leading to the first Gulf war.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usu…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939) is an American sportscaster, currently the lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network (VSiN). With CBS Sports from 1973 until…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Brent field was an oil and gas field operated by Shell UK Limited. It was located in 140 metres (470 ft) of water, in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, 186 kilometres (116 mi) north-east o…
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“Brent closed at $112.57 a barrel on Friday, up from $72.48 a barrel on 27 February, the day before the US-Israeli war on Iran began.”
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Wikipedia entries about Brent Crews (racing driver) and unrelated topics provide no oil price data. No corroborating sources found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent Crews (born March 30, 2008) is an American professional dirt track, sports car and stock car racing driver and owner. He competes part-time in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, driving the …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usu…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jeremiah Brent (born Jeremy Clevenger Johnson; November 24, 1984) is an American interior designer and television personality. He founded his design firm Jeremiah Brent Design (JBD) in 2011, a full-se…
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“Brent traded as high as $119.50 a barrel during March, its highest level since June 2022, after Iran all but closed the strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil and gas would normally pass.”
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“US crude prices also rose during March; West Texas Intermediate has gained 48%, on track for its strongest month since May 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was disrupting the world economy.”
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“Oil prices climbed through the month despite the coordinated release of 400m barrels of oil from emergency reserves announced on 11 March.”
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“Analysts at BloombergNEF estimate that 9m barrels of oil per day have been knocked off global oil supply by the Middle East conflict.”
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“Gold failed to live up to its reputation as a safe haven against inflation. The spot price of gold has fallen by almost 15% since the start of March, on track for its worst month since 2008, and the fifth-biggest monthly fall in the past 50 years.”
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“Losses on Wall Street during March pulled the Dow Jones industrial average into a correction at the end of last week, more than 10% below its record high.”
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“Britain’s stock market had a poor month too, with the FTSE 100 index falling more than 8% – on track for its worst month since March 2020, when Covid-19 rocked financial markets.”
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“UK government bonds weakened through March too, as traders ripped up forecasts for the Bank of England to cut interest rates this year. As bond prices fell, the yield (or interest rate) on 10-year UK bonds rose by 17% to nearly 5%, which would be the biggest monthly percentage rise in borrowing costs since September 2022 when Liz Truss’s mini-budget sparked a bond sell-off.”
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“Other European government bonds were also hit; Italian two-year debt was heading for its worst month since May 2018.”
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“Modupe Adegbembo, an economist at Jefferies, said European governments were operating from a much weaker fiscal starting point than in 2022, the last energy price shock, meaning they had less scope for large‑scale fiscal intervention.”
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