IEA Says Iran War Causing Biggest-Ever Supply Disruption

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  Oil rallies yet again as Iran strikes several tankers in the Persian Gulf.

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  Plus, President Trump returns to the tariff drawing board, targeting a number of big exporters.

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  And a new study finds that AI isn't lightening workloads.

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  Quite the opposite.

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  And so basically the conclusion was that AI doesn't necessarily create as much efficiency as many had hoped.

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  What it instead does is replaces that with even more work and different kinds of work,

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  but more work nonetheless.

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  It's Thursday, March 12th.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  The war in the Middle East is causing the biggest disruption to oil markets ever seen,

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  according to the International Energy Agency.

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  The IEA this morning slashed its forecasts for oil supplies,

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  saying it now expects supply to grow by just 1.1 million barrels a day this year,

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  a dramatic cut from the 2.4 million daily barrels expected previously.

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  All supply growth is now expected to come from outside of the OPEC Plus alliance,

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  with the conflict forcing major Gulf producers to curb output and effectively shutting the Strait of Hormuz.

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  Overnight,

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  crude prices topped $100 a barrel after Iran attacked three cargo ships trying to transit the waterway and hit two oil tankers in Iraqi waters with projectiles.

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  And the threat to international shipping isn't confined to the Persian Gulf any longer.

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