Oil Market Long Numb to War Risk Confronts Weekend of Worry
The barrage of headlines has revived memories of the political upheavals and prices spikes of the 1970s — and yet even when oil prices have jumped, it inevitably proved short-lived. As Iran and Israel traded volleys of missiles in April last year and again in October, Middle Eastern oil continued to flow to the global market unaffected.
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