Topic
Topic covering disruptions to Gulf crude supply and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and their effect on oil, diesel and jet fuel prices.
Traffic through the strait is down about 85% to fewer than 20 ships a day, and the American and Iranian accounts of what is moving differ by roughly 2.4 times, which leaves the war-risk premium as the only unedited price.
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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.
Perspective Coverage
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Jet fuel is 83% above its pre-war price and Avelo's chief executive says carriers will have to pass that on. A Q4 travel line sized on last autumn's $290 average domestic seat is now short by about a third.
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The International Energy Agency expects a demand shock this year comparable to the pandemic's, and traders are pricing supply anyway, because the missing barrels show up in inventories while the missing demand shows up only in forecasts.
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GasBuddy has California's diesel average at $7.91 a gallon and the national average past $6 for the first time. The extra $700m a day Americans are paying for fuel works out near $255bn over a year.
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Iranian officials are now saying on the record that the economy cannot take another round. What that concession changes for energy and EM books is not what the headlines imply.
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