Oil plunges below $90 as Democratic midterm sweep fuels hopes for end to Iran war
Crude fell as much as 10% after Democrats took Congress, with markets betting on political pressure to wind down the US-Iran conflict and restore Gulf flows, a sharp repricing of the war premium that had driven Brent above $100.
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