A handout image shows the oil tanker Layla in Rotterdam, Netherlands, October 25, 2020. (Peter Heiden/Handout via REUTERS)

Oil markets are on edge again

For a few weeks this summer you could look at the oil price and forget the Iran war had ever happened. In June America signed a deal with Iran, waiving sanctions on its enemy’s oil exports in exchange for ships’ safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. As tankers rushed to exit the Gulf, a…

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