August 14, 2026

Ziemba: Oil Market Overlooks Buffers Amid Long Conflict

Oil held a decline as tankers laden with crude continued to exit the Persian Gulf, despite persistent threats and limited progress on a deal between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Rachel Ziemba, Founder of Ziemba Insights and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, spoke to Bloomberg’s Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East & Africa about the war in the region which began in late February.

Watch the full interview on Bloomberg.

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