This latest iteration of the Middle East crisis is both familiar and unfamiliar. We’re all back obsessing about the oil price, yet we also know from the last few years that that same oil price has appeared somewhat impervious — oblivious?

NEW YORK (AP) — Some calm is returning to Wall Street, and U.S. stocks are rising on Monday, while oil prices are giving back some of their initial spurts following Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets at the end of last week.

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Oil prices leaped, and stocks slumped on worries that escalating violence following Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets could damage the flow of crude around the world, along with the global economy.

Although the U.S. is a net oil exporter, higher oil prices could increase inflation and lower economic growth.

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