Oil with a pop higher

The only news of note in the past few minutes is that the Israeli cabinet has approved the hostages deal with Hamas - Preime Minister's office says.

Which might be viewed as a slight easing of tensions.

Earlier we had this though:

• US military has carried out strikes against two Iran-backed facilities in Iraq

Oil has been steady to rising ever since the inventory build data earlier:

• Private oil survey data shows MUCH larger headline crude build than was expected

More:

• 50 hostages to be released
• woman and children
• over the next 4 days
• fighting will pause during this time