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Oil prices sink after Israel's strikes on Iran

Oil is trading down 5.33 percent on Monday at $71.58 per barrel.

The plunge in oil prices is a market reflection of Israel's limited strikes on Iran and Tehran's muted response to the attack. 

Israel followed the Biden administration's requests not to bomb Iranian oil facilities, which some analysts worried could provoke an oil war in the Middle East.