Oil prices fall after U.S. says crude exports through Strait of Hormuz near 9 million barrels per day

Oil futures retreated early Wednesday morning after prices rose overnight.

SEE: Ship traffic through Strait of Hormuz drops after US blockade  Dawn

A U.S. military helicopter fired on a merchant vessel trying to traverse the United States’s Strait of Hormuz blockade, the first such instance in weeks. The U.S. fired at the ship’s rudder to disable it after the crew ignored multiple warnings to stop, a U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal. The ship appeared to

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Four commodity vessels, including two empty oil product tankers, entered the waterway, data from Kpler showed on Tuesday as of 0420 GMT.