G7 to release up to 100m barrels of emergency oil and diesel reserves

Leaders agree a coordinated drawdown after surge in prices and Donald Trump’s threat to cut off US supplies Leaders of G7 nations are to release up to 100m barrels of their emergency diesel and crude oil stockpiles after Donald Trump threatened to cut off supplies of US diesel.

The French President, Emmanuel Macron, said ministers from some of world’s largest economies had agreed to release stocks from their…