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Oil rises as US orders diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia amid escalating tensions
Oil prices rose on Thursday as more attacks by the Houthis in Saudi Arabia prompted the United States to order some diplomats and family members to leave its missions in the Kingdom. Two killed after drone intercepted near Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield; injured includes one Pakistani Brent crude futures rose $1.29, or 1.2%, to $110.11 a barrel at 00:34 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude gained 97 cents, or 1%, to $98.12. Brent had settled largely unchanged on Wednesday, while WTI had eased 67 cents. The US State Department plans to withdraw family members from a number of other U...
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