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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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Brent-WTI Spread Hits $21 as Saudi Pipeline Bypass Splits the Oil Market
WTI crude has shed nearly $10 in two sessions to $89.19 while Brent pushed past $110, opening an extraordinary $21 transatlantic spread. Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, now running at 7 million barrels per day to Red Sea terminals at …
WTI Breaks $90 as the Market Front-Runs an Iran Deal That Doesn't Exist Yet
WTI crude fell through $90 to $89.32, extending a selloff that has now erased the entire blockade premium from last weekend. The market is pricing in a US-Iran agreement before any deal has been signed, with Goldman Sachs' $87 Q2 target …
WTI's Blockade Premium Erased in 48 Hours as US and Iran Signal New Talks
Trump's naval blockade on Iranian ports couldn't hold oil prices for a single full session. WTI dropped back to $92.60, fully reversing the weekend spike after CENTCOM scoped the blockade to Iranian ports only and both sides signaled wil…
WTI Slides Through $92 as Half the War Premium Evaporates in a Week
West Texas Intermediate crude fell through $92 on Sunday as the cumulative weight of CENTCOM's narrowed Hormuz blockade scope and OPEC's 500,000 barrel-per-day demand cut overwhelmed the supply-shock bid that had pushed prices above $105…
OPEC's 500k-Barrel Demand Cut Accelerates WTI's War Premium Unwind
OPEC slashed its Q2 global oil demand forecast by 500,000 barrels per day on April 13, citing economic damage from the Middle East conflict. The demand cut landed alongside CENTCOM's clarification that its new Hormuz blockade targets onl…
WTI Gives Back the Hormuz Blockade Spike in Thin Sunday Perp Trading
WTI crude on Hyperliquid dropped to $94.05, fully unwinding the initial spike triggered by Trump's Hormuz blockade order and falling below Friday's CME close of $96.57. CENTCOM's clarification that the blockade targets only Iranian port …
WTI Drifts Below $98 in Weekend Lull as CENTCOM Blockade Enforcement Looms
WTI crude slipped below $98 on Hyperliquid's 24/7 perp market during weekend trading, giving back the initial spike from Saturday's Islamabad talks collapse. Traditional oil futures were closed, leaving the perp to price the blockade new…
WTI Snaps Back Above $98 After Islamabad Talks Collapse and Trump Orders Hormuz Blockade
WTI crude reversed a week of ceasefire-driven selling after 21-hour peace talks between Vice President Vance and Iran's delegation fell apart in Islamabad on April 12. Trump immediately announced a US naval blockade of the Strait of Horm…
WTI Pushes Past $97 as US Navy Begins Mine-Clearing in Hormuz
WTI crude extended above $97 after US Navy destroyers entered the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the Iran war began, launching mine-clearing operations that Tehran called a ceasefire violation. The move comes hours after Islam…
WTI Rips 8% After Trump Orders Naval Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
WTI crude ripped 8% off its weekly low after Trump ordered a US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, escalating the standoff hours after 21-hour peace talks in Islamabad collapsed without a deal. Markets spent the week pricing in a pe…
WTI Bounces Off Weekly Lows After Islamabad Talks End Without a Deal
WTI crude bounced over 5% from lows near $89 as the first round of US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad concluded without an agreement after 14 hours. Iran's demand for full sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz proved irreconcilable with th…
WTI Longs Liquidate Into the Islamabad Weekend as Traders Price Peace
WTI crude dropped to $91.75 as traders aggressively unwound long positions ahead of US-Iran peace negotiations in Islamabad. The move extends a 22% weekly decline from the $117 highs, the steepest weekly selloff in six years, driven by t…
WTI Gives Back Post-Ceasefire Rebound as Israel-Lebanon Negotiations Cap Risk Premium
WTI crude slid back below $95 after briefly touching $102.64 during Wednesday's session. The reversal came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel would engage in direct negotiations with Lebanon, removing a key …
WTI Holds $95 as Iran Maps Hormuz Mines and Ceasefire Fractures
WTI crude reclaimed $95 as the US-Iran ceasefire continued to unravel less than 48 hours after it was announced. Iran's Revolutionary Guards published mine-avoidance route maps for the Strait of Hormuz, confirming the main shipping chann…
WTI Recovers as Hormuz Reopens in Name Only
WTI bounced 3% off session lows near $94 after the ceasefire-driven crash from $113, as the gap between the diplomatic headline and physical reality becomes clear. Iran committed to safe passage under the two-week truce, but only 11 ship…
Oil Finds a Floor as the Ceasefire Unravels and Hormuz Stays Shut
WTI crude clawed back over 4% from session lows near $91 after the market realized Trump's two-week ceasefire with Iran changed nothing on the water. Iran halted tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz within hours of the deal, citin…
Crude Crashed on a Ceasefire, but Hormuz Is Still Barely Open
WTI dropped over 15% after Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, but only four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday versus 135 a day pre-blockade. With roughly 1,000 vessels queued, Iran imposing an unprecedented per…
$950 Million in Oil Shorts Landed Hours Before the Iran Ceasefire
WTI crude crashed 15% to $95 after President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, conditional on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The move erased roughly $22 per barrel of war premium in a single session — the steepest one-day …
WTI's $14 War Premium Evaporates in 24 Hours After Trump-Iran Ceasefire
WTI crude dropped from a $117 session high to $94.60 as the geopolitical risk premium built during the Strait of Hormuz crisis collapsed following a conditional two-week ceasefire. The deal came less than two hours before Trump's deadlin…
WTI Extends to 21% Loss as Hormuz Ceasefire Fails to Restart Shipping
WTI crude has now fallen 21% from its $118 session high to $91.40, blowing through the trendline support that held the post-war uptrend. The Trump-Iran ceasefire compressed the war risk premium from $14 per barrel to under $5 in a single…
WTI Posts Largest Single-Day Drop Since 1991 Gulf War as Iran Ceasefire Pulls War Premium
WTI crude fell from a $117 session high to below $95, marking the largest single-session oil price decline since the 1991 Gulf War. The trigger was Trump's confirmation of a two-week ceasefire with Iran, brokered by Pakistan, conditional…
WTI Crashes Below $96 After Trump and Iran Confirm Two-Week Ceasefire
West Texas Intermediate plunged from a $117 session high to below $96 after President Trump and Iran's foreign minister both confirmed a two-week ceasefire with immediate Strait of Hormuz reopening. The move erased weeks of war premium i…
WTI Extends Selloff Below $108 as Pakistan's Two-Week Ceasefire Bid Gains Traction
WTI crude fell to $107.20, extending its slide from session highs above $117 as diplomatic momentum built ahead of Trump's 8 PM Hormuz deadline. Pakistan's PM formally asked for a two-week extension and urged Iran to reopen the Strait as…
WTI Gives Back 5% From Session Highs as Islamabad Accord Ceasefire Framework Circulates
WTI crude dropped from $115.48 intraday highs to $109.90 after reports of a Pakistan-brokered two-phase ceasefire proposal between the U.S. and Iran began circulating. The Islamabad Accord framework — an immediate cessation of hostilitie…
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