After 12 months of relative stability, oil prices were largely expected to plod along at $65 dollars a barrel and even lower in 2020.
But all that may have changed now that the spectre of war looms large following a US assassination of a top Iranian commander that has stoked tensions in the Middle East, pushing Brent crude oil prices past $70 a barrel on Monday...
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