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Oil prices jump as Middle East violence roils markets

October 9, 2023By Reuters
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BEIJING, Oct 9 – Oil prices jumped more than USD 3 a barrel in early Asian trade on Monday, as dramatic military clashes between Israeli and Hamas forces over the weekend deepened political uncertainty across the Middle East.

Brent crude LCOc1 rose USD 3.34, or 3.95%, to USD 87.92 a barrel by 2320 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 was at USD 86.23 a barrel, up USD 3.44, or 4.16%.

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Saturday launched the largest military assault on Israel in decades, killing hundreds of Israelis and triggering a wave of retaliatory Israeli air strikes on Gaza that continued through Sunday.

The eruption of violence threatens to derail U.S. efforts to broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, in which the kingdom would normalise ties with Israel in return for a defence deal between Washington and Riyadh.

A normalisation of Saudi-Israeli relations would likely freeze recent moves toward detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

“Increasing geopolitical risk in the Middle East should support oil prices… higher volatility can be expected” analysts from ANZ Bank said in a client note.

The attacks drew condemnation from Western nations but were openly praised by Iran and by Hezbollah, Iran’s allies in Lebanon.

Market attention has turned to the possibility of Iranian involvement in the attacks, which Israeli authorities have already alleged.

“For this conflict to have a lasting and meaningful impact on oil markets, there must be a sustained reduction in oil supply or transport,” Vivek Dhar, an analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said in a note.

“If Western countries officially link Iranian intelligence to the Hamas attack, then Iran’s oil supply and exports face imminent downside risks,” Dhar said.

(Reporting by Andrew Hayley; Editing by Jamie Freed)

This article originally appeared on reuters.com

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