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Oil price plunges over 5% on Trump tariffs

TDT | Manama

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Oil prices tumbled Thursday, with the main US crude contract WTI shedding 5.2 percent, as investors eyed weaker demand following President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.

West Texas Intermediate slumped to $68.02 per barrel and European benchmark, Brent North Sea crude, retreated 4.8 percent to $71.37.