Crude Oil is trading today in the European session above the $78 level.
Oil prices rose, extending gains from the previous session, after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing in Tehran of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh which rose the threat of a wider Middle East conflict and concern over its impact on oil. The US government report yesterday showed a decrease in crude oil inventories of 3.43M.