Finance & Banking — Iran War Triggers Global Financial Ripples: Oil Routes Shift, Bond Markets Strain, and Dollar Dominance Faces Test

Finance & Banking · 2026-03-29

The escalating Iran conflict is catalyzing profound shifts in global financial architecture, with three critical developments emerging simultaneously: Saudi Arabia's successful activation of Hormuz-bypass oil infrastructure, unprecedented pressure on U.S. Treasury markets as war spending increases, and early signs of dollar-dominance erosion in global oil trade. The Saudi pipeline achievement (7M…