Saudi oil attack
Fitch downgrades Saudi credit ratings over military tentions
The agency said in a statement it had lowered Saudi Arabia's long-term foreign-currency issuer rating from A+ to A, with a stable outlook.
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Petrol price predicted to increase after Saudi attacks
The Automobile Association is warning that the price of petrol may rise again next week.
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Saudi crown prince hosts Iraq PM for talks on oil attacks
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi for talks on Wednesday focused on attacks on the kingdom's oil infrastructure, which Washington has blamed on Iran.
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Rouhani says Iran resists sanctions, drives US 'desperate'
The United States on Friday imposed another round of sanctions on Iran, including on its central bank which was already blacklisted.
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UK believes Iran was behind Saudi oil attacks - Johnson
The United States and Saudi Arabia have already blamed Iran for the 14 September strikes that initially halved Saudi oil output. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has claimed responsibility.
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Pompeo says US mission is to avoid war with Iran but measures in place to deter
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have further escalated after an attack last weekend on Saudi oil facilities that initially disrupted half of the oil production from the kingdom, the world’s largest oil exporter, and was blamed on Tehran by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
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Real crunch from Saudi Arabia's oil outage has yet to be felt
While it carries out repairs, the world’s biggest oil exporter has promised to keep the physical crude market supplied from its inventories held in the kingdom and abroad, estimated to have been about 180 million barrels in July.
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Trump sees many options short of war with Iran after attacks on Saudis
Trump said on Twitter that he had ordered the US Treasury to “substantially increase sanctions” on Iran, which denies carrying out the attacks, and told reporters the unspecified, punitive economic measures would be unveiled within 48 hours.
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Saudi to announce oil attacks findings as US weighs retaliation
Riyadh, which is bogged down in a five-year war against Tehran-aligned rebels in neighbouring Yemen, has said that the weapons used were Iranian-made, but has not directly blamed its arch rival.
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Pompeo heads to Saudi Arabia after US blames Iran
Vice President Mike Pence announced that Pompeo was on his way to the kingdom to 'discuss our response.'
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French President Macron calls Saudi crown prince on Aramco attacks - press
The French president stressed that it is necessary for the world not to show weakness toward these attacks.
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Oil steps back on Saudi supply reassurance, focus shifts to Fed
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.13 % while Japan’s Nikkei was flat.
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US singles out Iran, readies response to Saudi oil attacks
Trump said he was ready to help key ally Saudi Arabia after the weekend drone attacks, which triggered a record leap in global oil prices, but would await a 'definitive' determination on who was responsible.
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Explainer: Attack on Saudi leaves world without spare oil capacity
The attack on Saudi oil facilities on Saturday not only knocked out over half of the country’s production, it also removed almost all the spare capacity available to compensate for any major disruption in oil supplies worldwide.
