Oil prices briefly hit wartime high as Trump weighs new strikes on Iran

Fuente: New York Post

Oil prices surged to their highest level since the beginning of the US-Iran war early Thursday before retreating on the strength of fresh reports that President Trump could soon resume attacking the Islamic Republic. The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the international benchmark, topped $126 per barrel shortly after midnight ET, hours after Trump indicated that he preferred to keep in place a weeks-long blockade on Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz. 3 Trump meets with NASA official and Artemis II astronauts in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC on Wednesday, April 29, 2026.