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Brent Crude is a major global benchmark for pricing crude oil, derived from North Sea production and used to price roughly two-thirds of traded oil.
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Poten & Partners puts a Middle East-to-Asia supertanker charter above $1.2 million a day, up from about $30,000 in January. Freight and lost refining capacity help hold Brent above $100 while Hormuz flows sit near 80% of pre-war levels.
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US 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.34% on 1 October, their highest in 24 years, while oil traded back above $100 a barrel. Rates and oil both reversed within days, so teams planning Q4 headcount, infrastructure or fundraising should budget both as ranges.
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UK diesel averaged a record 200.01p a litre on Friday, the RAC said, up 40.5% since the Iran war began in late February. Because the shortage sits in damaged refineries in the Middle East and Russia, fleet operators setting next quarter's fuel budget have weak grounds to plan on a quick fall.
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Brent traded at $102.56 a barrel on Sept. 30, up $2.37 in a day and $35.87 above a year earlier, a rise of about 54%. Any plan that counts on oil staying above $100 depends on a $2.56 margin, and a drop the size of the latest gain would nearly wipe it out.
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Brent fell $2.56 to $100.19 a barrel on Sept. 29, still $32.86 above a year earlier, according to Fortune. Anyone buying fuel is still paying about 49% more per barrel than last autumn, and the day's drop narrows that gap only slightly.
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Brent crude sold for $104.46 a barrel on Sept. 28, up $37.13 over the past year, according to Fortune. Fuel budgets built on last year's barrel need resetting, even though the data confirms only two sessions above $100.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,000, down about 1.8% in 24 hours, after Trump rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire plan and Brent crude climbed back above $100 a barrel. Futures now price a 64% chance of an October 28 Fed hike, a rough setup for a non-yielding asset.
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Crude opened Monday higher after President Trump rejected Iran's Hormuz proposal, with December Brent at $98.69 and November WTI at $93.78. Brent has won back 87% of last week's drop and WTI only 44%, held back by talk of a U.S. diesel export ban.
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US crude fell 7.9% this week to $92.41 amid US-Iran talks on Hormuz while Brent ended roughly flat at $104.32. Tehran's reopening offer rests on a June deal that already collapsed over transit rights, and Brent has fallen on it for just one session.
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The Treasury secretary wants G20 partners to cut Iran ties, shrink their current account surpluses and believe that yields are heading down. Follow the flows and those three asks pull against each other.
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Washington said it would trade strikes for sanctions. Days later it went back to shooting. For anyone pricing a Gulf voyage, mine risk in the strait was paused last week, not eliminated, and the freight and insurance numbers will keep saying so.
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Crude had a reserve to tap and refined product does not, which is why taking roughly 3% of global diesel supply out of the market has pushed the US pump average to an all-time high with the squeeze still building.
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Brent above $95 is about 32% over its prewar level. The only independently counted numbers put Strait of Hormuz throughput near a quarter of normal, a wider gap than the White House's escort totals admit.
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Brent topped $105 and the 10-year touched 4.902 per cent in the same session. The cash operation blamed for the yield move would cover about 1.5 basis points of annual interest on the debt it was meant to steady.
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Philip Lane's September projections have euro-area inflation averaging 3.0% in 2026 and peaking at 3.6% in the fourth quarter, above the 2.50% policy rate the ECB set on the same day it upgraded growth.
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US existing-home sales fell 2 per cent in August to a 3.98 million annual pace while listings rose to 1.62 million homes, the most since November 2019, and the ratio of the two is about 4.9 months of supply.
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International oil prices have passed $100 while the US Navy narrows its Hormuz escort windows to two a day, and the overland pipeline that was the alternative to the strait is offline after a drone attack.
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Brent near $108 and futures pricing a 92.3% chance of a Fed hike took the 10-year to 5.014% intraday. Capital Economics says the United States is not in a fiscal crisis yet because nominal growth still beats debt service.
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Bond traders price about 100bp of further Fed hikes by next summer, with the 10-year Treasury yield up 121bp to 5.18% since the attack on Iran. Borrowers who planned around cuts are now betting against a Fed that voted unanimously to hike eight days ago.
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WTI has not fallen five days in a row since February. What set the run off was a three-hour meeting in New York plus Iran's conditional offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Pump prices are still at record highs.
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