Oil prices hit highest in years as markets adjust to looming sanctions on Iran | Reuters

Oil prices hit highest in years as markets adjust to looming sanctions on Iran | Reuters:

"Oil prices clocked up more multi-year highs on Thursday as traders adjusted to the prospects of renewed U.S. sanctions against major crude exporter Iran amid an already tightening market.

The United States plans to impose new sanctions against Iran, which produces around 4 percent of global oil supplies, after abandoning an agreement reached in late 2015 which limited Tehran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for removing U.S.-Europe sanctions.

 Oil prices rose sharply in response to the announced measures.

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