Oil prices surge amid reported US troop deployments to the Middle East

An October 2 post shared a headline reporting that the US was deploying thousands more troops and Marines to the Middle East as oil prices surged. Another post relayed Macron’s claim that Gulf oil exports through Hormuz and Saudi Arabia’s route to Yanbu had reached 75-plus percent of prewar volumes. That post said refined fuels such as diesel remained more disrupted than crude flows. Nikki Haley urged continued “maximum pressure” on Iran.