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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.
Brent crude rose above $109 a barrel on Friday and WTI reached $100, its first time there since September, NBC News reported. Diesel has risen faster than gasoline in recent months, and operators carry that exposure into this quarter.
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Brent crude was $108.51 a barrel at 7:45 a.m. Eastern on 16 October, up $1.84 in a day and about $47 above a year ago, Fortune reported. Its price page adds that pump prices often lag crude on the way down, so relief reaches fuel bills late.
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South Korea held its gasoline price cap at 1,784 won a liter for a fourth straight period, with Brent at $105.90. Industry estimates put refiners' losses at 7 trillion to 8 trillion won, above the 5.6497 trillion won budgeted.
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Brent crude traded at $106.67 a barrel on October 15, about $44 above its price a year earlier, Fortune reported. That is roughly 70% higher. The page measures price only; margins and spending are left out.
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Economists expect Wednesday's September CPI to show a 0.6% monthly rise as Iran-war energy costs push Brent to about $105. RSM warns forecasts may undershoot, and the Fed's October hike depends on the core reading.
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Brent crude traded at $108.70 a barrel at 7:15 a.m. Eastern on October 14, roughly $46 above the same morning last year, according to Fortune. Against an implied $62.70 a year ago that is a rise of about 73%, a gap any fuel budget set on last year's costs has to fund.
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Bullish dollar positions rose to about $36 billion in the week to October 7 from $8.4 billion three weeks earlier, weekly US regulator data shows. Wednesday's US inflation report is the next test for a dollar trading near 18-month highs.
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Brent crude fell 11 cents to $104.61 a barrel on Monday as Trump announced Russian diesel supply and an energy ceasefire that Russia has not commented on. The diesel is small against global demand and the truce is unverified, so the relief looks shallow.
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Asian shares opened cautiously on Monday, with Brent down 1.1% at $103.50 a barrel, ahead of major US bank earnings on Tuesday. US inflation data due this week may weigh on tech valuations as much as the results do.
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Trump ruled out US strikes on Iran before the November 3 midterms and kept the naval blockade in force. Brent still traded near $103 a barrel on Friday, and a pledge that lapses on election day returns no Iranian oil to the market.
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Brent crude rose 3.7% to $103.91 a barrel on Thursday as data showed Iran stepping up tanker attacks in Hormuz and reports of new US strikes spread. With the 10-year Treasury at 5.32%, the oil move hit equities as inflation risk and European indexes opened 0.64% to 1.06% lower.
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The euro was on course for a fifth straight weekly drop on Friday, after worry over France's record debt sent it to a 17-month low of $1.1161 on Monday. The dollar index has also risen four weeks running, so the Fed's rate path now looks like a bigger driver than French budget politics.
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Hurricane Isaias shut in almost two-thirds of U.S. Gulf oil output by Thursday night, Heatmap reported, up from about a quarter that morning in NBC's count. For fuel buyers the storm's refinery risk runs for days, inside a refining shortage GasBuddy's Patrick De Haan puts at three to six months.
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Brent crude settled at $104.28 a barrel on Oct. 8, up 4%, after Axios reported the Pentagon had ordered preparations for renewed strikes on Iran. Trump said the same day he would not attack before the Nov. 3 midterms, a promise that stops at the vote while energy and freight budgets run well past it.
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Trump signed an order Monday letting anyone buy tax-exempt red-dye diesel and said it would save truckers more than $100 per fill-up. How much fleets actually save depends on four federal departments expanding access and on states choosing to suspend their own diesel taxes.
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Brent crude rose more than 5% to over $105 a barrel Thursday as President Trump weighed renewed large-scale strikes on Iran. For operators, the decision sets how far costs climb from here, since diesel and freight had been rising for months before it.
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Brent rose to $101.80 on Wednesday after a Gulf storm curtailed 185,120 barrels a day of US offshore crude and Houthi strikes damaged two Saudi airports. That loss is small beside Middle East shut-ins, so the bigger fourth-quarter cost risk runs through Gulf refineries into diesel.
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US stock futures slid from record highs on Wednesday and Thursday as oil rose and the 10-year Treasury yield sat between 5.28% and 5.33%. With FactSet expecting 29.5% third-quarter earnings growth, how far the rally runs now depends on whether oil keeps pushing bond yields up.
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Bitcoin fell below $83,000 as Brent crude reached $102 a barrel and US Treasury yields climbed to their highest since 2002. Oil set the timing, but the fall landed on a futures market that had shed $2.8 billion of open interest since September 22, CryptoQuant data show.
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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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