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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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CL Rips to $90.69 as Tehran Skips Islamabad and Trump Reverses on the Ceasefire
CL pushed 5.38% higher to $90.69 in 24 hours after Iran refused to attend the Islamabad peace talks and Trump reversed his morning position to extend the ceasefire indefinitely. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the U.S. naval blockad…
CL Bids $89 as API Prints a 4.4M Barrel Draw and 2,000 Ships Sit Idle in the Gulf
WTI crude on Hyperliquid tagged $89.04 after the American Petroleum Institute reported a 4.4 million barrel U.S. crude inventory draw for the week ending April 17, more than four times the consensus decline. The print lands on top of a H…
CL Bids $90.32 as Trump Tells CNBC the Pentagon Is 'Raring to Go' and Only Three Ships Cross Hormuz in 24 Hours
WTI perps added 5.09% over 24 hours to $90.32 after President Trump told CNBC the US military is 'raring to go' if Iran does not produce a unified ceasefire proposal this week. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz stayed at a trickle, w…
CL Holds $89 as Vance Stays in DC and Iran's Silence Pushes the Ceasefire Toward Collapse
WTI crude is up 3.87 percent over 15 hours to $89.35 after Vice President JD Vance's trip to Islamabad for US-Iran talks was put on hold when Tehran failed to respond to American negotiating positions. The two-week ceasefire expires Wedn…
CL Pushes to $91.73 as Tehran Stays Silent and the Ceasefire Clock Runs Down
WTI ripped another 6.70% on Hyperliquid's HIP-3 CL perp over 14 hours, tagging $91.73 as Vice President Vance's Islamabad trip stayed grounded and Iran still refused to confirm attendance at the last-ditch peace talks. Trump told CNBC he…
CL Climbs to $88.53 as Vance's Islamabad Trip Stalls and Iran Calls the Blockade an Act of War
CL is up 2.98% over 14 hours into a ceasefire that expires tonight, after VP JD Vance's second-round trip to Islamabad was put on hold because Iran never responded to the US negotiating positions. Iran's foreign minister publicly labeled…
CL Rips 4.60% Into the Ceasefire Cliff as Trump Says Military Is 'Raring to Go'
The two-week US-Iran ceasefire runs out tonight and Trump went on CNBC saying the military is raring to go if talks fail. VP Vance is flying into Islamabad for a second round, but Iranian officials are publicly denying a Tehran delegatio…
CL Reclaims $87 as Qalibaf Rebuffs Trump's 'Surrender' Framing
CL is back to $87.13 after Iran's chief negotiator publicly rejected Trump's framing as 'negotiations under the shadow of threats,' puncturing the diplomacy bid that faded crude from $90 yesterday. VP Vance's delegation is en route to Is…
CL Fades From $90 as Islamabad Round Two Gets Scheduled
CL printed near $90 in Asia hours on weekend vessel attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and a US Navy seizure of an Iranian tanker. The war premium faded to $87.12 during the NY session after the White House confirmed Vice President Vance is…
CL's Hormuz Bid Holds 48 Hours Before the Ceasefire Expires
CL is at $88.06, up 3.61% on the window that captured the Sanmar Herald shooting and only about $2 off Friday's $90.29 peak. With the US-Iran ceasefire expiring Tuesday and no public framework on the table, the tape is refusing to fade t…
CL Rebuilds the War Premium After IRGC Fires on the VLCC Sanmar Herald
WTI round-tripped Friday's 11 percent Hormuz-open flush back above $90 after Iran's IRGC fired on the Indian VLCC Sanmar Herald mid-transit and parliament's National Security Commission put the strait back under armed-forces control. Wit…
CL Rebids the Hormuz Premium as Tuesday Ceasefire Deadline Creeps Closer
Crude has round-tripped from Friday's $83.85 washout back through $88, with the US-Iran ceasefire set to expire Tuesday April 21 and no headline progress out of the weekend talks Trump floated. The Strait of Hormuz is still shut. The San…
CL Fades the Hormuz Bid as Trump Floats Weekend Iran Talks Before Tuesday Deadline
WTI is giving back a chunk of Saturday's gunboats-on-tanker pop, trading $85.86 into a weekend where Washington and Tehran are positioning for a second round of Islamabad talks. The U.S.-Iran ceasefire expires Tuesday April 21, and the m…
CL Reclaims Hormuz Risk Premium as Iran's 'Status Quo' Returns
WTI is climbing again on Hyperliquid as the geopolitical bid Friday's 'completely open' line from Tehran torched keeps rebuilding. Iran's parliament National Security Commission chair Ebrahim Azizi reframed the Strait of Hormuz as 'retur…
CL Climbs 6% as Iranian Gunboats Fire on Tanker, Hormuz Restrictions Restored
Iran's parliament National Security Commission formally restored Strait of Hormuz transit restrictions on April 18, hours after Iranian gunboats opened fire on a commercial tanker. The move fully invalidates Foreign Minister Araghchi's '…
CL Rips 9% as Iran's Hormuz Reopening Gets Retracted Within Hours
WTI is up 9.05% to $86.54 on Hyperliquid, fully retracing Friday's capitulation flush to $83.20. Iran's foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz completely open on April 17 and crashed oil more than 10% in a session. His own parlia…
CL Climbs 6.5% as CENTCOM Confirms 21 Ships Turned Back From Hormuz
Iran's foreign minister said the Strait of Hormuz was completely open. Trump said the US naval blockade stays until a full deal is signed. Iran's own parliament speaker then sided with Trump and walked the opening back. CENTCOM now says …
CL Rips 7% as Iran's Hormuz Walk-Back Collides With the Tuesday Ceasefire Deadline
WTI crude on Hyperliquid has climbed 7.22% in 22 hours to $85.80, clawing back a chunk of Friday's 11% crash. The reversal came after Iran's parliament speaker publicly overrode his own foreign minister and said the Strait of Hormuz stay…
CL Rebounds 4.5% as Iran's Parliament Speaker Walks Back the Hormuz Opening
WTI crude clawed back part of Friday's 11% crash after Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf publicly contradicted Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, saying the Strait of Hormuz stays closed while the US naval blockade continu…
CL Drops Under $84 as Iran Declares Strait of Hormuz Open to Commercial Shipping
WTI crude sold off hard after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Strait of Hormuz is completely open to commercial vessels for the remainder of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, and President Trump confirmed the same on Truth S…
CL Reclaims $90 on Surprise 913K-Barrel EIA Crude Draw
WTI bounced back above $90 after the EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report surprised with a 913,000-barrel crude draw for the week ending April 10, versus consensus for a 154,000-barrel build. Gasoline stockpiles fell a much larger 6.3 mi…
WTI Breaks Below $90 as IEA Projects First Global Demand Decline Since 2020
WTI crude dipped below $90 for the first time since the Strait of Hormuz blockade began, as the IEA's April Oil Market Report projected global oil demand will contract this year for the first time since the pandemic. The selloff has now …
WTI Breaks Goldman's Q2 Floor as Trump Signals Iran Talks Could Restart
WTI crude fell below Goldman Sachs' $87 Q2 target on Monday after President Trump indicated US-Iran negotiations could resume within 48 hours in Pakistan. The move extends a reversal of over $30 from last week's $117 Hormuz spike, as the…
WTI Sheds $16 in Three Sessions as War Premium Meets a 14M-Barrel Inventory Wall
WTI crude has fallen from $105 to $88.64 since the US announced a Strait of Hormuz blockade on April 13, erasing the war premium in under a week. The White House confirmed a second round of US-Iran talks is under discussion, while four c…
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