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the global oil market has ever suffered. But so much has supply increased in recent years that, as a share of global output, four earlier upheavals were more serious. All were in the Middle East, of which the most acute was the Iranian revolution in 1978-79, which cut off 8.8% of global oil. This time, Aramco, the Saudi state-owned giant, lost 60% of the kingdom’s output, but just 5.7% of the world’s.
Turmoil also broke out elsewhere in the financial markets, as America's overnight “repo” rate suddenly shot up. That is what American banks pay to raise cash overnight, against high-quality securities such as Treasury bonds. A sudden surge in the rate forced the Fed to inject cash into the system.
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