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Oil, gas prices rapidly rise as war shows no signs of letting up
Financial Express Chandigarh
|March 08, 2026
@ SURPASSES $90 A BARREL
THE PRICE OF oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the US and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East.
The conflict, in which nearly every country in the Middle East has sustained damage from missiles or drone strikes, has left ships that carry roughly 20 million barrels of oil a day stranded in the Persian Gulf, unable to safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Gulf that is bordered on its north side by Iran.
This story is from the March 08, 2026 edition of Financial Express Chandigarh.
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