Oil price hits record high

In Europe, the prices of US light, sweet crude rose to $87.97 per barrel, while the price of Brent crude increased to $83.99. The surge in prices followed reports of Turkish forces attacking an Iraqi border village, claiming the area was harbouring 3,500 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (KWP) rebels. The KWP wants to see an independent Kurdish state created in the Middle East. The Turkish government is preparing a motions to make a military incursion into northern Iraq, which has raised fears that oil supplies might be disrupted. However, the price of oil is below the inflation-adjusted figure ...