barrel
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Airlines canceled thousands of flights because of a winter storm barreling up the East Coast, but that’s not the only thing spreading chaos across the air travel industry.
From Barron's
Airport travelers on the East Coast were already facing a difficult Sunday with a blizzard barreling toward New York and much of the Northeast.
There are around 300 million barrels of Russian and Iranian oil at sea, according to ship tracker Vortexa.
Still, Brent crude futures rose 5.9% for the week to $71.76 a barrel, with investors bracing for a potential U.S. strike in Iran.
U.S. inventory data added support to prices, with the EIA reporting an unexpected 9 million barrel crude stock draw for last week.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.