The price of the benchmark international oil contract, Brent North Sea, reached $100 a barrel in trading on July 23 after Yemen's Houthi rebels struck oil tankers in the Red Sea.

Houthi attacks are expanding the Middle East conflict into the Red Sea, forcing tankers to reroute and pushing Brent above $91 amid growing fears of prolonged supply disruptions.

World oil prices soared Wednesday, with main contract Brent North Sea crude surpassing $95 for the first time in nearly six weeks, as the United States and Iran carried out more…

Oil prices hit a six-week high on Wednesday, with Brent crude racing past ninety-five dollars a barrel. The growing tensions between the U.S. and Iran have sparked fears of supply…

Oil prices hit a six-week high on Wednesday, with Brent crude racing past ninety-five dollars a barrel. The growing tensions between the U.S. and Iran have sparked fears of supply…

Oil prices rose to their highest in almost six weeks on Wednesday, with Brent crude surpassing $95 a barrel, on mounting concerns about disruptions to Middle Eastern supply routes…

Oil prices hit six-week highs after Houthi militants targeted Saudi tankers. New all-time high for crude oil by December 31 at 16.5% YES.

NEW YORK -- International benchmark Brent crude rose to the highest level in two months, reaching 100 U.S. dollars per barrel on Thursday morning after two Saudi oil tankers were…

Oil prices rose more than 1.5% to their highest in more than six weeks on Thursday, with the United States launching a new round of strikes on Iran and Yemen’s Houthis targeting…

US attacks on Iranian targets continued for 12th straight night with no sign of let up in the conflict

Brent crude futures rose $2.2 or 2.3 percent, to $96.27

Oil prices climbed for a fifth straight session, with Brent surpassing $98 per barrel as Houthi attacks on Saudi-linked tankers heightened fears of supply disruptions through the…

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as traders fear attacks from Yemen and Iran creating ‘two-chokepoint problem’

The price of main international oil contract, Brent North Sea, soared five percent Thursday after Houthi rebels claimed to have ...

Brent oil nears $100 as prices surge 5% after Houthi attacks on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, raising fears of a widening Middle East conflict

Houthi militia attacked two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in a military operation, the group said on Thursday.

The price of Brent oil rose more than 5% to nearly $99 per barrel on Thursday morning.

Oil closed in on US$100 a barrel after Iran-backed Houthi militants said they attacked two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea. Read more.

Main oil contract Brent North Sea surged toward US$100 a barrel on Thursday (Jul 23) as Tehran-backed Houthi rebels targeted Red Sea shipping, raising fears that the Middle East…

Main oil contract Brent North Sea surged toward $100 a barrel on Thursday as Tehran-backed Houthi rebels targeted Red Sea shipping, raising fears that the Middle East war is…

The Iran-backed rebels said they had targeted two Saudi tankers, the Encelia and the Layla.