Oil prices rocketed 2% today as concerns about further tensions in the Middle East and their impact on supplies emerged from the wreckage of the bomb blasts in Saudi Arabia.
The London benchmark price of Brent crude oil rose 50 cents to 25.39 US dollars a barrel as the terrorist attacks in which killed 10 Americans overnight dampened market confidence.
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