FTSE 100 Live: Blue-chip index climbs as oil price rises but bonds ease

But she notes that Trump's messaging is also complex, if not confusing; threatening escalation on one hand, positioning to seize the strategically important Kharg Island, on the other he is claiming a deal is close to being done."While last week his boast that significant progress had been made in talks saw a sharp reversal in oil prices, today it’s a different story. Brent crude is staying stubbornly elevated, at the painful level of above $115 a barrel, as traders assess an increasingly complex and intrac ...