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Brent tops $116 a barrel as markets reopen; Asian stocks fall more than 4 percent

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Brent crude rose more than 3 percent on 30 March to top $116 a barrel, its highest since it briefly touched $119 on 19 March, Al Jazeera reported; prices were up nearly 60 percent since the war began. Japan's Nikkei and South Korea's KOSPI fell more than 4 percent. Windward counted seven non-Iranian vessels through Hormuz on 26 March, against a pre-war average of 120 daily transits.

When
30 March 2026
Where
Strait of Hormuz, No single country
What
market
Attribution
Not attributed. Market movement.
In the record
Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 1 · backfilled

Sources

  1. Evidence Al Jazeera Media · Government of Qatar origin: oil and equity market data; Windward transit data · published 2026-03-30 00:00 UTC

History

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