{"id":437548,"date":"2026-09-04T22:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/oil-climbs-on-reports-of-iran-ballistic-missile-launches-437548\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:01:15","slug":"oil-climbs-on-reports-of-iran-ballistic-missile-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/oil-climbs-on-reports-of-iran-ballistic-missile-launches-437548\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil climbs on reports of Iran ballistic missile launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WTI crude oil futures have reversed higher today on reports of Iranian ballistic missile launches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Iran said it was moving to a pre-emptive doctrine and now we&#8217;re seeing increasing signs of it as they struggle to disrupt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug 26, WTI was as low as $79 but now it&#8217;s back over $90.<\/p>\n<p>In other war news, some of the weight on oil earlier was on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-09-04\/witkoff-and-kushner-to-visit-moscow-kyiv-sept-5-6-tass-says?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=share&amp;utm_campaign=twitter\" rel=\"follow\">report <\/a>that Kushner and Witkoff will visit Moscow and Kyiv this weekend in a renewed push for peace negotiations. They have visited Russia multiple times but\u00a0it would be their first visit to Kyiv since the start of Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha also told reporters on Thursday that he saw a \u201cnew dynamic\u201d coming in peace efforts<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTI crude oil futures have reversed higher today on reports of Iranian ballistic missile launches. Iran said it was moving to a pre-emptive doctrine and now we&#8217;re seeing increasing signs of it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}