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Insight

Energising Malaysia

By LEE SOOK YEE

OIL has been the barometer of fear this year.

When the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway that carries roughly a fifth of the world’s oil, was effectively closed in late February 2026, Brent crude spiked sharply.

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