WTI Crude Oil Stock Forecast: Why $84 May Hold Over the Next 2-3 Quarters
If WTI crude oil is trading closer to $90 per barrel over the next 2-3 quarters, what must be true today is that the current $84 per barrel level, rec…
Strait of Hormuz
Tanker Insurance Won’t Lie to You
On April 7, ceasefire rhetoric between Washington and Tehran began circulating through diplomatic channels. WTI crude, which had climbed to $119/bbl e…
$115 Oil Has One Enemy Nobody’s Deployed Yet
WTI crude settled at $115.3 on April’s close — up 106% from $56.0 three months ago — and the move has been so clean, so relentless, that the market ha…
What Does $114 Not Yet Know?
What happens to global energy markets when the price of oil is right but the cost of moving it is being quietly weaponized?
Brent sits at $114, WTI a…
Duration Is the Only Number That Matters Now
Traders are not afraid of $112. They are afraid of not knowing what comes after it. A specific, unresolved dread about the shape of the next six month…
What Happens If the Strait Never Fully Reopens?
What happens if the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t fully reopen — not in weeks, but in months?
The market hasn’t cleanly answered that yet. WTI settled at …
The Market Isn’t Pricing War. It’s Pricing the Strait.
There’s a specific kind of market mood that doesn’t look like fear and doesn’t look like greed. It looks like calculation. That’s what’s running throu…
WTI at $98 and the Energy Complex Is Lying to You — Read the Fine Print
The real story in oil markets as of March 22, 2026 is not that WTI crude touched $98.23 per barrel. It’s that natural gas fell nearly 22% on the same day. That one divergence — crude sprinting toward $100 while gas collapsed from $3.965 to $3.095 — tells you almost everything about what this market actually believes. It’s more nuanced than the headline panic suggests. WTI has surged approximately 69% from its December 2025 close of roughly $58 per barrel. The immediate catalyst is Iraq’s declaration of force majeure on foreign-operated oilfields, tied specifically to Hormuz disruption stemming from the escalating Iran-linked conflict — confirmed by a Reuters exclusive on … Read more