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West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil / CL
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WTIOIL references the USD price of 1 barrel of WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil. WTI serves as a primary global benchmark for oil prices due to its high quality (low density, low sulfur).
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CL Hits a Five-Week High as the Red Sea Threat Closes Saudi's Hormuz Bypass
WTI's Hyperliquid perp is at $86.01, up 4.98% over 24 hours and posting a third straight session of gains to a five-week high. The move isn't a new catalyst so much as an old one doubling its surface area: US strikes on Iran continue, a Kuwaiti tanker was struck in the Strait of Hormuz, and Houthi threats against Saudi shipping in the Red Sea just forced two Saudi crude tankers to turn back. That Red Sea route was the workaround for a choked Hormuz, so both of the kingdom's export exits now carry a war premium at once. OPEC+ keeps nominally adding barrels and ceasefire chatter keeps capping the top, which is why this stays a two-way trade.
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WTI Slides to a Two-Month Low as Iran's 14-Point Draft Dangles a Hormuz Reopening
West Texas Intermediate fell another 4.58% to $85.20, its lowest in nearly two months, after Iranian state media outlined a 14-point draft deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days and lift U.S. oil sanctions. Trump says…
Crude Hits a Two-Month Low as Trump Cancels Iran Strikes and Dangles a Hormuz Deal
WTI crude broke to its lowest level since April after President Trump cancelled planned strikes on Iran and said Tehran had approved a draft framework to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and open 60 days of nuclear talks. The headline drained…
Oil Fades Toward $89 as Rising Hormuz Flows Drain the War Premium
WTI is back to $88.73, down 2.40% over 18 hours, giving back the spike that followed Trump's overnight threat to strike Iran. The bid won't hold because the strikes keep sparing Iran's energy infrastructure while the one structural prop …
Oil Bounces ~3% Back Toward $90 as Strikes Refire the War Premium
WTI is up 2.95% over nine hours to $89.20, clawing back most of a 3%-plus down session as fresh strike headlines re-firm the Middle East war premium. The structural bid underneath crude is the Strait of Hormuz, effectively shut for more …
Oil Rebuilds the War Premium on Fresh US Strikes, Then Stalls Below $90
West Texas Intermediate is up 4.52% over the past 24 hours to $89.70, clawing back the war premium it shed earlier in the week after US forces hit Iranian air defenses and President Trump warned Tehran would 'pay the price.' The structur…
Crude Rebuilds the War Premium as Iran's Truce Cracks and Trump Threatens Strikes
Crude spent June 9 unwinding its war premium on news that Iran had halted strikes — then spent June 10 putting it right back on. The reversal came after President Trump said Iran had delayed negotiations and would have to pay the price, …
Crude Round-Trips to $90 as Iran's Stand-Down Drains the War Premium
WTI gave back its weekend war premium on June 8, round-tripping from above $95 intraday to roughly $90 after Iran said it had ended its strikes on Israel. The de-escalation drained the geopolitical bid about as fast as it priced in, leav…
Crude Fades the Iran Missile Spike to $90 as OPEC+ Hikes Quotas It Can't Fill
WTI round-tripped a geopolitical spike on June 8, sliding about 4.4% to roughly $90 after Iran said it had ended the missile barrage on Israel that had pushed crude into the mid-$90s hours earlier. With the risk bid draining out, traders…
CL Bounces to $91 Into a High-Stakes OPEC+ Meeting, Not a Fresh Bid
WTI is up 1.9% to $91.48, but this is a positioning bounce, not news. Friday's session sold off roughly 3% to near $90 on stalled US-Iran talks and a ten-year low in Chinese crude imports. The whole tape is now coiled into Sunday's OPEC+…
CL Drops to $93 as an Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Bleeds the Hormuz Premium Out of Crude
WTI fell about 3% on June 4 after Israel and Lebanon agreed to renew their ceasefire, the latest de-escalation step pricing the Strait of Hormuz war risk out of oil. Crude is now roughly 20% off its 2026 peak even as US inventories post …
CL Reclaims $101 After Trump Says China Will Buy U.S. Crude and Help Unblock Hormuz
WTIOIL on Hyperliquid is back above $100 after Trump told reporters out of his Beijing summit that Xi committed to buying U.S. crude and to helping reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Chinese officials have not confirmed either pledge, but WTI …
CL Eases to $97 as Trump Lands in Beijing With Iran's Oil Lifeline on the Table
WTI gives back part of this week's rally as Trump arrives in Beijing for his first state visit to Xi Jinping since 2017, with Iran's oil exports and the Hormuz blockade headlining the agenda. NYMEX June WTI slipped $1.41 to $100.77 after…
CL Presses $98 as Treasury Sanctions the Iran-China Oil Network
CL on Hyperliquid is bid 3.38% higher over 18 hours to $97.97 after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned twelve individuals and entities — three Iranians and nine front companies in Hong Kong and the UAE — for routing Iranian crude to China. The…
CL Grinds Back to $96.52 as Trump Calls Iran's Counter 'Garbage'
The HIP-3 WTI perp ticked up 1.64% over 15 hours to $96.52, closing some of the discount it opened to NYMEX after Monday's spike to $98. Front-month WTI is at $99.09 and Brent above $105 after Trump dismissed Tehran's latest peace counte…
CL Perp Fades the Iran Spike to $95.92 as NYMEX WTI Closes +3.95%
CL on Hyperliquid has retraced to $95.92, down 2.21% over 15 hours, even as front-month NYMEX WTI closed up 3.95% at $99.19 on Trump's rejection of Iran's nuclear counteroffer. The HIP-3 perp unwound most of the geopolitical premium that…
CL Pushes $98 as Iran Refuses to Dismantle Nuclear Sites, Hardening Trump's 'Unacceptable' Standoff
WTI on Hyperliquid extended yesterday's bid, adding 6.02% over 15 hours to $98.17 as the contours of Iran's rejected counteroffer leaked. The Wall Street Journal reports Tehran will ship some highly enriched uranium abroad but refuses to…
CL Reclaims $96 as Trump Calls Iran's MOU Response 'Totally Unacceptable'
WTIOIL (CL) ripped 4.42% over six hours to $96.61 on Hyperliquid after Trump blasted Iran's counter to the one-page Hormuz memo as totally unacceptable, killing the deal that had drained the war premium all week. Energy Secretary Chris W…
CL Bleeds to $93 as Trump's 'Love Tap' Defangs the Hormuz Risk Premium
WTI on Hyperliquid traded down 3.24% over 24h to $93.06 as the war premium continued to drain out of crude. The catalyst is not a fresh data print but a sentiment shift: President Trump publicly dismissed Thursday's US-Iran fire exchange…
CL Holds $94 as Rezaei's Reparations Line Tests Tehran's MOU Window
WTI tagged $93.93 on Hyperliquid this morning, a 3.62% bleed over 21 hours that has nothing to do with fresh news and everything to do with the market grinding the Iran war premium out of the curve while Tehran's response to the US-broke…
CL Fades to $94.21 as the Hormuz MOU Erases the War Premium
WTI crude is bleeding the Iran war premium as a US-brokered framework to gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz works its way through Pakistani intermediaries to Tehran. CL's $1.0B HIP-3 perp on Hyperliquid is down 3.65% over 19 hours to …
CL Reclaims $93.93 as Hormuz MOU Cracks and EIA Draws Tighten
WTIOIL on Hyperliquid is up 4.44% to $93.93 over the last 24 hours as a fragile US-Iran ceasefire frays again in the Strait of Hormuz. Two days after Saudi media floated a 14-point MOU to reopen the strait and crude lost 6.3% in a single…
CL Reverses to $93.84 After Three US Destroyers Exchange Fire With Iran in Hormuz
WTI's HIP-3 perp ripped 4.34% to $93.84 after US Central Command said three Navy destroyers — USS Truxtun, USS Rafael Peralta and USS Mason — fended off Iranian drones, missiles and small boats while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The …
CL Fades to $93 as Iran's Hormuz MOU Response Runs Past Schedule
WTI crude is down another 4.12% to $93.45 on Hyperliquid's CL perp over the last nine hours, extending a multi-day unwind of the war premium that pushed the contract above $126 in late April. The catalyst is the absence of one: Iran's re…
CL Bleeds Another 6% to $94 as Iran Weighs Hormuz Memo Through Pakistan
WTI on Hyperliquid shed another 6.33% over the past 24 hours to $94.28 as the geopolitical risk premium that pushed crude to a $126 wartime high keeps draining. Trump paused Project Freedom citing diplomatic progress, Iran's Revolutionar…
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