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- Brent crude$108.36 −1.37% on the day
- Gold$4,188.70 +0.18% on the day
- Natural gas$3.16 +1.48% on the day
- US crude stocks-8,557.0 mln bbl on the week
All numbers in one table
The day change is from the previous session close; for crypto, over 24 hours.
| Asset | Price | Day | 7d | 30d | 1y | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brent | $108.36 | −1.37% | +1.60% | +4.32% | +76.80% | Yahoo Finance · |
| WTI | $98.11 | −0.92% | +4.66% | −2.18% | +70.51% | Yahoo Finance · |
| Gold | $4,188.70 | +0.18% | −0.05% | −5.34% | −0.58% | Yahoo Finance · |
| Silver | $57.75 | +0.77% | −3.98% | −13.24% | +15.80% | Yahoo Finance · |
| NatGas | $3.16 | +1.48% | −0.16% | +8.59% | +5.12% | Yahoo Finance · |
| Copper | $6.58 | +0.08% | −1.79% | −0.55% | +33.40% | Yahoo Finance · |
Commodities
Oil route map
The chokepoints oil flows through. When the news mentions one, the point lights up.
The main seaborne oil paths out of the Persian Gulf and through Suez, Panama and Malacca.Chokepoints: if one closes, oil has to go around and the price rises.No chokepoint is in fresh headlines right now.
In 2024 an average of 20 million barrels per day of oil and products moved through the strait. Saudi and UAE pipelines could bypass about 2.6 million b/d of it.
The Red Sea's Indian Ocean entrance. Attacks on ships here force tankers around Africa, adding 10–14 days to the route.
The canal and the parallel SUMED pipeline link the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
The shortest sea route between the Middle East and China, Japan and Korea.
The Bosporus and Dardanelles: the route for Black Sea oil, including Russian and Kazakh barrels.
Links the Atlantic and the Pacific. Droughts limit transits.
A schematic for orientation: not real coordinates or tanker positions (we have no AIS data). "In the news" means the place appears in fresh headlines, not that supply is confirmed disrupted.
Brent futures curve
US crude inventories
Commercial stocks
−8.6M on the week · Oct 9
Source: EIA
Gold's main enemy: the real yield
10-year real yield
Oct 15prev 2.84% · −0.06 pp
The yield after expected inflation. Gold's main enemy.
FRED · DFII10 · Federal Reserve (H.15)
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