US crude dips 7 cents, settling at $75.23, near 4-year high as Iran sanctions loom

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Oil prices dipped on Tuesday but remained close to four-year highs on worries that global supplies will drop due to Washington's sanctions on Iran.

"This is the market catching its breath," said Gene McGillian, director of market research at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut. The market steadied after rallying in three consecutive sessions.

Still, oil prices drew support from worries that Iranian production will drop sharply after U.S. sanctions go into effect on Nov. 4. Also, global demand has remained strong in the face of trade tensions.

International benchmark Brent crude oil fell 32 cents to $84.66 per barrel by 2:24 p.m. ET after reaching a new four-year high of $85.45 in the previous session.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures ended Tuesday's session down 7 cents at $75.23 a barrel, having hit a nearly four-year high of $75.91 earlier in the session.

Brent and WTI have roughly tripled compared with lows seen in January 2016, which prompted OPEC and allies led by Russia to curb oil supplies to rebalance an oversupplied market starting in January 2017.

Sentiment was lifted by a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada, rescuing a $1.2 trillion a year open-trade zone that had been about to collapse.

More fundamentally, oil markets have been pushed up by looming U.S. sanctions against Iran's oil industry, which at its most recent peak this year supplied nearly 3 percent of the world's almost 100 million barrels of daily consumption.

A Reuters survey of OPEC production found Iranian output in September fell by 100,000 barrels per day, while production from the group as a whole rose by 90,000 bpd compared with August.

"Oil prices continue to climb, supported by the nearing Iran embargo and related supply concerns," said Norbert Ruecker, head of commodity research at Swiss bank Julius Baer.

HSBC said in its fourth-quarter Global Economics outlook that "our oil analysts believe there is now a growing risk it (crude) could touch $100 per barrel."

The Trump administration set a deadline of Nov. 4 for oil buyers to stop purchasing Iranian crude. Many analysts say OPEC will struggle to cover a decline in exports from Iran.

"The general impression out there currently seems to be that there is either an outright inability or at least a certain unwillingness ... to compensate for the expected continuation of declining Iranian export flows," Vienna-based consultancy JBC Energy said.

Britain's Barclays bank, however, said "OPEC has ample spare capacity."

For now, soaring crude prices and weak emerging market currencies, including India's rupee and Indonesia's rupiah, may erode economic growth.

"Softening demand growth and new supply should cool the bullish sentiment and push prices lower by the end of the year," Barclays said.

Industry group the American Petroleum Institute (API) reports its U.S. inventory data Tuesday afternoon, and the U.S. government reports its data on Wednesday morning.

Five analysts polled by Reuters forecast that U.S. crude stockpiles rose about 1.1 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 28.

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US crude dips 7 cents, settling at $75.23, near 4-year high as Iran sanctions loom

Oil prices remain near their highest since November 2014 as markets brace for tighter supply once U.S. sanctions against Iran come into full force next month. HSBC sees "a growing risk" that

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