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And we meet the 97 year old former Fighter Pilot taking to the skies to mark battle of britain day. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, and 1am in london. Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. With me is bob mcnally, president of Rapidan Energy group in washington. He served in the Bush Administration as its top energy advisor. Hejoins me now. Thank you so much forjoining us. Firstly, the us says that this was an unprecedented attack and indeed there has been a very significant market movement. How significant is this, in your view . Well, it is justified. Crude oil now in asia is trading 10 or more. That is justified. The folks who atta
Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. My colleague mariko oi is in singapore. Bring us up to date on what the cost of crude is doing. There was a huge spike when oil began trading on the global markets. That is right, we saw brent crude prices jumping global markets. That is right, we saw brent crude pricesjumping by almost 20 when they opened and still currently we are seeing the jump still currently we are seeing the jump of10 12 . Still currently we are seeing the jump of 10 12 . A double digitjump that we have really not seen before. The easing of the jump was somewhat because of the us President Donald Trump moving to ease the jump
To mark battle of britain day. Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. Our Asia Business correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in singapore. What the attack says about the vulnerability what are oil prices doing in asia right now . They have come off some of those big is that we saw in the early minutes of asian trade, when traders out here reactive, as many had expected them to, by pushing up the price of crude oil by some 19 in the onset of asian trade. They have come off those prices now. We are seeing them stabilise at about a 10 bump in the price of oil. That is pretty significant and i think underlines the fact that people here are very
Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. Our Asia Business correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in singapore. As you can see from the screens, the cost of crude oil is up about 10 for light crude and 11. 3 for brent crude. There was a surge of oil prices at the onset of asian trade, and one viewpoint pointed out a surge at the onset of trade, but now i think that traders are ingesting the information about when we might see a resumption in that shortage of oil supplies coming in from saudi arabia. Remember, asia is particularly exposed to this, given that it particularly exposed to this, given thatitis particularly exposed to this, given that