The price of Texas intermediate oil (WTI) It closed this Friday with a rise of 0.5%, to $83.14 a barrel.
However, in the week’s calculation it loses about 3%.
Brent, for its part, gained 0.21% today and stood at $87.29.
On Thursday, crude oil closed with a drop of more than 3% in the absence, until then, of a response from Israel to Iran’s air attack last Saturday.
And although that response came in the form of limited attacks on a facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan on Thursday night, the restraint shown by both countries, Israel and Iran, allays operators’ fears of a broader war in the Middle East. .
«The energy market has been through this before –analyst John Kilduff told CNBC-: It is difficult to gauge how much the tension barrier in the Middle East really is after four days of tension at maximum levels and to see if this will impact the supply of crude oil.. EFE (I)
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