{"id":610751,"date":"2026-09-09T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610751\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:08:09","slug":"brent-crude-surpasses-100-a-barrel-as-iran-us-escalate-attacks-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610751\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent crude surpasses $100 a barrel as Iran, US escalate attacks | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investors eye inflation and central bank tightening as oil breaches the symbolic threshold once again.<\/p>\n

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Published On 9 Sep 20269 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

Global stocks have come under pressure and Brent crude oil surpassed $100 a barrel as escalating fighting across the Middle East stokes fears of energy-driven inflation.<\/p>\n

The benchmark crude contract rose to $100.19 on Wednesday, its highest level since July 24, when a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran was in place, and its price was on the downswing.<\/p>\n

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The US military attacked five Iranian crude oil carriers<\/a> overnight, with Iran retaliating with missile attacks on US forces in Jordan and attacks on shipping.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would keep hitting Iranian oil tankers in response to attempted attacks on US warships.<\/p>\n

Wall Street\u2019s three main stock indexes \u2013 the S&P, Dow and Nasdaq \u2013 each saw small losses. European stocks dropped to one-week lows, with industrial and banking stocks hit the worst. Canada\u2019s blue-chip stock futures also inched down.<\/p>\n

Asian markets fluctuated, although technology shares continued to climb back from a July low, driven by the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n

Ipek Ozkardeskaya, a senior analyst at Swissquote, told Reuters that risk appetite remained weak due to rising oil prices from the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer was full of hope that a peace agreement could be achieved,\u201d he said. \u201cThis optimism is fading as we enter September.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manish Kabra, a multi-asset strategist at Societe Generale, said $100 was a \u201cpsychological threshold\u201d rather than an economic one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think crude needs to hit $150 to create a major drawback in demand cycle,\u201d he said. Rising diesel prices could feed into inflation and services, he added.<\/p>\n

The surge in oil prices has added to concerns that higher inflation will lead central banks to adopt more restrained monetary policies.<\/p>\n

The European Central Bank is expected to hike interest rates on Thursday, and next week the US Federal Reserve will meet to determine whether they will do the same.<\/p>\n

Bond markets are feeling the strain as well. Inflation concerns have raised yields in recent weeks as traders anticipate central bank tightening.<\/p>\n

Since the US and Iran resumed attacks on each other at the end of August, benchmark bonds in the US, Japan and some European countries have seen multidecade-high yields, raising concerns over government borrowing costs and the health of global financial institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investors eye inflation and central bank tightening as oil breaches the symbolic threshold once again. Published On 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[245,1153,1435,1685,9835,42,932,87,47,43,16755,40,38,41,39,1032,162198],"class_list":["post-610751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-conflict","tag-energy","tag-european-union","tag-financial-markets","tag-headlines","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}