oil

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Also since 1979, Saudi Arabia—the cradle of Islam—had used oil money to spread its own Sunni ultra-conservative version of the faith around the world.

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It possesses the world’s fourth-largest crude reserves and second-largest reserves of natural gas but is prevented from exporting most of it because of a U.S. oil embargo.

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Potential supply disruptions from persistent monsoon rains and the upcoming low production season could help limit the downside of palm oil prices, Kenanga Futures says in a research note.

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Energy stocks also added momentum as oil held firm and investors rotated back into Canadian resource names.

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Sable Offshore surged 23% after a federal court denied environmental groups’ request to halt the restart of the company’s oil pipeline in central California.

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