Global oil stocks plunge by nearly 270 million barrels amid US-Israel war

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Global oil reserves are depleting at an unprecedented pace as the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts flows from the Gulf, eroding a key buffer against supply shocks, Al Jazeera reports citing Bloomberg.

Morgan Stanley estimates that global stockpiles fell by nearly 270 million barrels between March 1 and April 25.

The sharp drawdown means that governments and industries lose room to absorb the impact of more than a billion barrels of disrupted oil supply since the US-Israeli war on Iran started on February 28.

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