Oil prices fell about four per cent ‌on Tuesday after Iran and Israel said they had halted attacks on each other following an appeal from US President Donald Trump.

Brent futures fell $3.40, or 3.6%, to $90.85 a barrel at 10:28 a.m. EDT (1428 GMT), while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude slid $3.71, or 4.1%, to $87.59.

That ​put Brent on track for its lowest close since April 17 and WTI on track for its ​lowest close since May 29.

Israel and Iran halted direct attacks on each other on ⁠Monday after an appeal by Trump for them to stop, but Tehran said it would resume hostilities if ​Israel continued to attack its ally, the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

Iran, however, has so far held back from attacking ​even after Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least eight people.

“The oil market is drifting lower … as the latest shooting match between Israel and Iran was diffused in favour of a ceasefire and as Trump ​continues to talk the market lower by suggesting that an end of the war with Iran could be reached ​in 2-3 days with negotiations in their final stages,” analysts at energy advisory firm Ritterbusch and Associates said in a note.

Iran ‌has continued ⁠to block most shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which, before the war, carried a fifth of the world’s crude oil and liquefied natural gas. Washington has imposed its own blockade of Iranian ports.

Elsewhere around the world, China’s May crude imports slumped 29% to their lowest levels in eight years, extending a sharp decline in the world’s ​largest oil importer that is ​helping keep a lid ⁠on global oil prices.

WORLD SUPPLY, DEMAND AND INVENTORIES

The oil market awaited global oil supply and demand data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday and weekly storage ​reports from the American Petroleum Institute (API) trade group later on Tuesday.

Analysts estimated energy firms ​pulled 3.4 ⁠million barrels of crude from US storage during the week ended June 5.

If correct, that would be the first time energy firms pulled crude out of storage for seven weeks in a row since January 2025. It compares with a ⁠decrease ​of 3.6 million barrels in the same week last year and an ​average decline of 0.7 million barrels over the past five years (2021 to 2025).