# Crude jumps after Iranian strike on Kuwait Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/squawk-box-europe-express-990161/crude-jumps-after-iranian-strike-on-kuwait Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/squawk-box-europe-express-990161/crude-jumps-after-iranian-strike-on-kuwait.md Podcast: [Squawk Box Europe Express](https://stenobird.com/podcast/squawk-box-europe-express-990161) Published: 2026-05-27T23:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/rss.art19.com/episodes/38bfee20-f436-446d-bd2c-1e4ce25f7cd0.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/rss.art19.com/episodes/38bfee20-f436-446d-bd2c-1e4ce25f7cd0.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/squawk-box-europe-express-990161/episodes/crude-jumps-after-iranian-strike-on-kuwait Duration seconds: 1655 ## Resource Oil prices whipsaw with Brent up almost 3 per cent following an Iranian missile and drone attack on a U.S. air base in Kuwait. The strikes were followed by the U.S. targeting of a ground control station in Bandar-e-Abbas just hours after optimistic peace talks comments from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had pushed crude lower. Federal Reserve governors Neel Kashkari and Austan Goolsbee warn CNBC rising inflation and price pressures are not easing. Global equity markets fall into the red again following yesterday's record session on Wall Street. The EU is reportedly looking to decrease its dependency on American technology and champion European companies. Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch tells CNBC he welcomes the bloc’s direction. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/squawk-box-europe-express-990161/episodes/crude-jumps-after-iranian-strike-on-kuwait/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/squawk-box-europe-express-990161/crude-jumps-after-iranian-strike-on-kuwait.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.