Oil Price Falls Further After Vance Tweet on Midterms and Iran

Dow Jones11-05 00:45

Crude oil prices fell sharply Wednesday as investors took the Democrats' wins in elections as a sign the Iran war might end sooner rather than later.

A long social-media post by Vice President JD Vance this morning blaming Republican losses on the Middle East war added to crude's decline. The most-active Brent crude contract, lost nearly 8%, to trade at $95.70 a barrel. The U.S. benchmark also declined.

 

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