Brent crude Brent
Yahoo Finance, delayed · updated
The global oil price benchmark, a futures contract on ICE. The site shows the front-month future (NYMEX Brent Last Day quote via Yahoo Finance).
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Brent crude is down 1.37% over the day, now $108.36. Over 30 days +4.3%.
Tilt: bullish. Price is above its long-term average: the long trend points up. The dollar is strengthening, which usually weighs on this asset.
Fed rate decision, Oct 28 (market prices: hold 84%).
Price history
Daily closes · Yahoo Finance
What is behind the price
Curve
Contract prices by delivery month
Near contracts trade above far ones: backwardation. The market pays more for oil now than later, usually a sign of tight supply.
Source: CME/NYMEX/COMEX via Yahoo Finance · updated
Logistics
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.
Inventories
US commercial crude stocks
−8.6M on the week · week to Oct 9
Source: EIA · next report · updated
Key numbers
- Price
- $108.36
- Previous close
- $109.86
- 7 days
- +1.60%
- 30 days
- +4.32%
- 1 year
- +76.80%
- 52-week high
- $126.10
- 52-week low
- $58.72
- 200-day average
- $90.15
- Quote time
- Oct 19, 11:53 UTC
- Source
- Yahoo Finance (delayed)
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What is Brent crude?
The global oil price benchmark, a futures contract on ICE. The site shows the front-month future (NYMEX Brent Last Day quote via Yahoo Finance).
What moves the price of Brent?
OPEC+ decisions, US inventories, shipping risks in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, Chinese demand, the dollar.
Where do the numbers on this page come from and how often do they update?
Delayed Yahoo Finance quotes refreshed every few hours. Macro from FRED (St. Louis Fed), company filings from SEC EDGAR. Each block names its source.
How do I trade Brent?
Through a broker as a CFD: a contract on the price difference, not buying the asset itself. Leveraged CFDs are very risky and most retail accounts lose money on them.
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