Concerns about war-drumming with the latest shake-up in the Trump administration send the price of crude oil higher in early Friday trading. Geopolitical risk emerged Friday to drive oil prices higher for another day as the U.S. president named a hawkish John Bolton as his national security adviser. U.S. Gen. H.R. McMaster resigned Thursday as President Donald Trump ‘s national security adviser, a position the White House said will be filled by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Serving as a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Bolton in a February article in the Wall Street Journal said it was “perfectly legitimate” for the United States to launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea. On Iran, he made it clear where he stood in a January piece in the same newspaper. “The Iran agreement rests on inadequate […]