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It's Friday, March 13th.
I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
The U.S.
is easing sanctions on Russian oil.
In a move that's designed to boost supply and ease price pressures,
countries will be allowed to purchase Russian oil that's already at sea until April 11th.
I asked Journal correspondent Thomas Grove what to make of the policy shift.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said in a post on X that the sanctions exemption is a narrowly tailored short term measure.
And he says that it shouldn't provide a lot of economic benefit to Russia in the long term.
This certainly shows us that the priority in Washington is to make sure that there's enough oil on the market to keep prices low.