Oil prices fall more than 5% as Middle East tensions ebb on diplomatic efforts

Oil prices tumbled more than five percent on Monday, CNBC reports, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he had called off a planned strike on Iran. The sharp drop reflects investors stepping back from the heightened geopolitical risk premiums they'd built into the market.

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