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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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Iran Turns Back Chinese COSCO Ships at Hormuz as WTI Touches $100
Iran blocked two Chinese COSCO container ships from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on March 27, signaling the blockade is no longer limited to adversary-flag vessels. WTI crude hit an intraday high of $100.04 — the first triple-digit pr…
WTI Nears $100 as Ukraine Cripples Russian Baltic Oil Exports While Hormuz Stays Shut
Two independent supply shocks are now running simultaneously. Ukrainian drone strikes on Primorsk, Ust-Luga, and a major Leningrad refinery have halted an estimated 2.3 million barrels per day of Russian oil exports — the worst disruptio…
WTI Pushes Past $93 as Iran Counters Trump Peace Plan With Hormuz Sovereignty Demand
Iran didn't just reject Trump's 15-point peace proposal — Tehran issued a five-point counterproposal demanding permanent sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and toll rights on all transit. WTI extended gains to $93.5 as the market trea…
WTI Reverses Full De-Escalation Drop After Iran Rejects Trump's 15-Point Peace Plan
WTI crude snapped back over 5% on March 26 after Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi publicly rejected Trump's 15-point ceasefire proposal and denied any direct talks with Washington. The reversal erased the prior day's de-escalation sell-o…
WTI Reclaims $91 as Saudi Arabia and UAE Edge Toward Joining the Iran War
WTI crude snapped back above $91 in under 48 hours, erasing most of the 12% selloff triggered by Trump's since-debunked claims of productive Iran negotiations. The catalyst for the reversal: a Wall Street Journal report that Saudi Arabia…
Crude Drops 12% After Ghalibaf Calls Trump Iran Talks 'Fake News'
WTI crude held near $89 after a 12% single-session selloff as the negotiation picture between Washington and Tehran sharpened on both ends. An Israeli official identified Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as Trump's bac…
WTI Drops 14% as Trump Claims Iran Talks That Tehran Says Don't Exist
WTI crude extended losses below $88 as markets processed contradictory signals from Washington, Tehran, and Swiss mediators. Trump ordered a five-day pause on strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure and claimed productive back-chan…
WTI Dumps 12% After Trump Orders Five-Day Pause on Iran Energy Strikes
WTI crude reversed from above $100 to under $90 in a single session after Trump announced a five-day postponement of all US military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, claiming productive back-channel talks with T…
WTI Reclaims $98 as Physical Tightness Overwhelms Treasury's Iranian Oil Waiver
WTI crude bounced more than 3% to $97.98 after Treasury's General License U released 140 million barrels of sanctioned Iranian crude from tankers and briefly pushed prices toward $93. The reversal reflects a physical oil market in crisis…
WTI Slips Below $96 After Treasury Frees 140 Million Barrels of Iranian Oil at Sea
WTI crude fell to $95.92 after the US Treasury issued General License U on March 20, authorizing the sale of approximately 140 million barrels of Iranian oil already loaded on tankers. The 30-day sanctions waiver, valid through April 19,…
Iraq Declares Force Majeure as Hormuz Blockade Grinds Exports to a Halt
WTI crude pushed back toward $96 after Iraq formally declared force majeure on all foreign-operated oilfields, cutting Basra output from 3.3 million barrels per day to just 900,000 bpd. The declaration — the first by a major OPEC produce…
WTI Crude Jumps as Iran Strikes Energy Facilities Across Four Gulf States
WTI crude ripped above $98 after Iran launched retaliatory strikes on energy infrastructure in Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE on March 19. The attacks were a direct response to Israel's strike on Iran's South Pars gas field the…
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West Texas Intermediate crude oil is the primary US pricing benchmark for global oil markets, and it is now tradeable as a HIP-3 perpetual futures contract on Hyperliquid. With the 2026 Iran war driving WTI through the widest price swing…
WTI Pulls Back as Trump's Hormuz Coalition Finds No Takers
WTI crude fell 8% on March 16 as President Trump called on NATO allies, China, Japan, and the UK to form a military coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with warships. No country has publicly committed. The market is discounting a po…
WTI Rebounds as Fresh Hormuz Attacks Overpower the IEA's Largest-Ever Reserve Release
WTI crude climbed back above $86 on March 11 after three cargo ships were struck by projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. Navy sank 16 Iranian minelayers overnight. The IEA's unanimous decision to release 400 million barrels…
WTI Bounces as Hormuz Diplomacy Triggers Historic $40 Intraday Swing
WTI crude rebounded nearly 10% off session lows near $78, part of one of the widest single-day price ranges in crude oil futures history. The March 10 session saw WTI trade from under $80 to $120 and back as the market whipsawed between …
WTI Sheds Its War Premium After Hormuz Diplomatic Breakthrough
Crude oil gave back weeks of geopolitical gains in a single session after a UN-brokered maritime stability agreement defused the Strait of Hormuz crisis. WTI fell from nearly $120 to under $80 as the war premium that had gripped energy m…
WTI Gives Back War Premium as Trump Floats Sanctions Relief and Quick End to Iran Conflict
WTI crude oil has reversed sharply from its $120 spike, falling more than 12% to $88 as President Trump signaled the Iran war could end very soon and announced plans to waive oil-related sanctions on select countries to boost global supp…
WTI Crude Reverses From $119 After Trump Signals Iran War Ending
West Texas Intermediate crude oil collapsed from a session high near $119.50 to below $85 in a single trading day — the sharpest intraday reversal in years. The catalyst was a rapid shift in war sentiment after President Trump told CBS N…
WTI Sheds Its War Premium in Hours After Trump Signals Iran Conflict Nearing End
West Texas Intermediate crude collapsed from near $120 to the low $80s on March 9 after President Trump told CBS the Iran war was 'very complete' and floated a US takeover of the Strait of Hormuz. The remarks triggered an immediate liqui…
WTI War Premium Evaporates After Trump Floats Strait of Hormuz Takeover
Crude oil collapsed more than 24% from session highs near $120 after President Trump told CBS News the U.S. is considering seizing control of the Strait of Hormuz. The remark triggered an immediate liquidation of the conflict premium tha…
WTI Gives Back Its Entire Iran War Premium in a Single Session
Crude oil's historic 30% spike on the Strait of Hormuz closure reversed almost entirely within 17 hours, with CL dropping from $115 to $87. G7 finance ministers floated a coordinated release of up to 400 million barrels from strategic re…
WTI Crude Breaks $100 as Strait of Hormuz Closure Chokes Global Supply
WTI crude oil ripped past $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022 as the US-Iran war effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which roughly 20% of the world's daily oil supply flows. Gulf producers including…
Israel Hits Iranian Oil Infrastructure as Crude Clears $100
WTI crude ripped 19% after Israel struck 30 Iranian fuel depots overnight, the first direct targeting of oil infrastructure since the US-Israel war on Iran began nine days ago. The move pushed WTI above $100 for the first time since 2022…
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