Oil prices reversed part of Wednesday’s surge Thursday, with Brent near $102 and WTI near $91 in Reuters Asian wraps that cited diplomacy hopes and resumed Saudi pipeline flows.

The prior session’s jump had been fueled by harder Iranian language on Hormuz conditions. Diesel cracks and export-ban debates in Washington remain part of the inflation story households feel at the pump.

Accounts agree the immediate risk premium cooled; they diverge on medium-term barrels if talks fail.

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Officials and independent outlets continue updating confirmed details as they become available. NewsHabit’s card sticks to multi-outlet confirmation for this edition and notes where accounts still diverge, without projecting outcomes that the published record does not yet support.

Readers should treat timed deadlines, hearings, launch windows, and vote tallies as live until a second independent outlet confirms a change. Where administrations, campaigns, or corporate spokespeople dispute characterizations, those disputes are preserved in the agreement and conflict fields rather than collapsed into a single narrative voice.

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