CITYAM.COM WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2026 | OPINION | 13 WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR VIEWS E: opinion@cityam.com COMMENT AT: cityam.com/opinion LETTERS There’ll be no return to normal for oil [RE: Oil price falls but Trump and Iran clash on negotiations claim, 03 Aug] Oil analysts and traders are still waiting for the apparently inevitable ‘return to normal’. One of the key lessons from this whole episode in the Straits of Hormuz is that there is no longer a ‘normal’ to return to.