Oil Tanker Attacks

Oil prices surged more than two per cent on the news, which raised new supply concerns with tensions still high after last month's attacks on two Saudi crude facilities

"The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tanker can move," says official

About 5.7 million barrels per day of output has been suspended, says Saudi Aramco in a statement.

Stating that Iran should meet diplomacy with diplomacy, not with terror, bloodshed, and extortion, Pompeo asserted that the US will defend its forces, interests and stand with our partners