US Crude Edges Toward $70 as Traders Brace for Iran Decision
The greenback was well up against most other high-yielding currencies with the South Korean won off 0.5 percent, Malaysian ringgit down 0.1 percent and Indonesian rupiah 0.2 percent lower.
Traders are wrestling with headlines reporting ahead of Trump's decision on Iranian sanctions.
Within five days, U.S. President Donald Trump must choose whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose restrictions on oil shipments from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' third-largest producer. Asian shares picked up, helped by technology stocks as generally upbeat earnings overcame weakness in the global smartphone market and concerns about more regulation.
Over the three years of record global surplus of oil and refined products and rock-bottom prices, Iran has learned to do more with less. A longtime critic of the 2015 deal, Trump has said he'll withdraw the USA from it if other partners - mainly Britain, France, and Germany - don't "fix" its perceived flaws.
But just how much is already baked into fuel prices today is uncertain - and risks abound. "Now we have to see what the reactions are".
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 39 points at 24,313, a fall of 0.2%, at last check.
The euro fell 0.55 percent against the dollar to $1.1854, the lowest since December.
"There is good reason to think that the normalisation of monetary policy in advanced economies should continue to prove manageable for (emerging market economies), he told a conference in Zurich on Tuesday".
The S&P 500 fell 5 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,667.
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Money says this could affect as many as one million barrels per day of crude supply.
Hours before Trump's announcement, Democratic lawmakers warned that gas prices, which have risen nearly 50 cents a gallon in the last 12 months, were poised to climb higher with Trump's withdrawal.
The resumption of what Trump called the "highest level of economic sanctions" against Iran will take place over the next several months. The deal, which called for the curbing of Iran's nuclear programme, paved the way for the lifting of global sanctions against the country.
The price of oil ended 2.4 percent lower Tuesday, paring some of its earlier losses.
But renewed USA sanctions on Iran may possibly get a larger implication than petroleum distribution and petroleum rates, presented Tehran's expanding influence from the Middle East and its particular role in regional crises like Syria and Yemen, famous Fox.
United States oil prices rose above 70 dollars a barrel for the first time since November 2014.
USA crude futures last traded at US$69.97 per barrel, down 1.1% from Monday's settlement price.
Energy stocks mostly reversed an early tumble.
"Although re-imposed United States sanctions on Iran will not have the same reach as the multilateral sanctions that were put in place to get Iran to come to an agreement in 2015 in the first place, this decision by Trump is still significant in terms of the potential broader regional impact of worsening relations between Washington and Tehran", Kiernan said.
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