PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN
Continued skirmishes around the Arabian Peninsula lent support to oil prices in the past week
Monday 15th July '19
A risk we have highlighted in “40 Years of fraught US-Iran tension in the Persian Gulf plays on” is now being crystallised with the flow of oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz – the world’s most important transit choke-point – being hampered. Added to that, tropical storm Barry is shuttering production in the US Gulf Coast, temporarily tightening US supply of oil. Despite fears of oil demand slowing amid little progress with US-China trade talks, constrained supply is continuing to support oil prices.