Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, reporter Alex Longley takes a look at the success of several Persian Gulf nations in shipping their oil to the global market even as the US and Iran continue to fight over the region’s key energy chokepoint. The clandestine shuttle trade through the Strait of Hormuz is getting increasingly hard to keep under wraps.