{"id":70892,"date":"2026-04-05T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/its-all-fear-and-headlines-energy-traders-race-to-keep-pace-with-volatile-oil-markets\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:59:08","slug":"its-all-fear-and-headlines-energy-traders-race-to-keep-pace-with-volatile-oil-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/its-all-fear-and-headlines-energy-traders-race-to-keep-pace-with-volatile-oil-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s all fear and headlines\u2019: energy traders race to keep pace with volatile oil markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Market volatility caused by Middle East conflict exposes energy traders to heavy losses and rumours of insider trading at the highest level<\/p>\n<p>On the weekend that US-Israeli drones first began to rain down on Tehran, energy traders across the world\u2019s major financial centres began to redraw their strategies.<\/p>\n<p>When they returned to their trading desks on that March Monday morning, they found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/02\/oil-prices-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-shipping\">oil and gas prices spiking<\/a> amid a market nightmare made real: the unprecedented shutdown of the vital trade route through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/strait-of-hormuz\">strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/05\/its-all-fear-and-headlines-energy-traders-race-to-keep-pace-with-volatile-oil-markets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market volatility caused by Middle East conflict exposes energy traders to heavy losses and rumours of insider trading at the highest level On the weekend that US-Israeli drones first began to rain down on Tehran, energy traders across the world\u2019s major financial centres began to redraw their strategies. When they returned to their trading desks &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s all fear and headlines\u2019: energy traders race to keep pace with volatile oil markets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/its-all-fear-and-headlines-energy-traders-race-to-keep-pace-with-volatile-oil-markets\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s all fear and headlines\u2019: energy traders race to keep pace with volatile oil markets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}