Iran's "warship incident" caused controversy
16, the "chaos" in the Middle East is heating up again. The war of words between Israel and Iran over the "warship traffic incident" has become the focus of global investors' attention.
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At the same time, in other countries in the Middle East, protests are still fermenting. It also includes members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries like Libya. 16, Bahraini people protested for the third day. According to foreign media reports, the conflict in Yemen has caused casualties.
London crude oil breakthrough 104 USD.
JPMorgan Chase's latest report points out that the unstable situation in oil-producing areas such as the Middle East has brought high risks to the oil market, and this risk is increasing.
Take the Suez Canal as an example. At present, it is the main international shipping channel connecting Europe, Asia and Africa, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, and it is an important oil transportation hub in the world. Once the Suez Canal is not running smoothly, it will greatly increase the transportation cost of crude oil and push up the oil price.
Some analysts pointed out that although Bahrain and other countries are not major crude oil producers themselves, they are closely related to oil producers such as Saudi Arabia. Once the situation in these countries deteriorates further, it will not rule out the adverse impact on neighboring oil-producing countries.
Stimulated by the situation in the Middle East and other factors, international oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday, with London oil prices hitting a new high again. London session 17, Brent crude oil futures hovered above 104 USD in April. The day before London closed, the contract rose by $ 2. 14 to $ 103.78, the highest closing level since the end of September 2008. New york WTI crude oil futures, which recently received a large discount, also rose 0.8% to a two-week high of $84.99 on Wednesday.
However, later 17, oil prices fell. Earlier, some local media quoted anonymous sources as saying that the Suez Canal operator had been told that the plan of two Iranian warships passing through the canal had been cancelled.
The price of gold rose for four consecutive days.
Gold is also affected by the situation in the Middle East. The international gold price rose for the third consecutive day, reaching $65,438 +0.375. The price of gold continued to rise on Thursday, once reaching $65,438 +0.380.
At the same time, the situation in the Middle East has also affected regional and even global financial markets. Worried about the conflict between Iran and Israel, the US stock market 16 once fell rapidly at noon, only to rise again driven by more favorable data. In the Middle East, the Egyptian financial market, which was dragged into chaos by politics, continued to shut down this week.