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Crude Oil Prices Refuse to Blink

17 Jul 2026

Crude Oil Prices Refuse to Blink

It must be said that there is a lack of urgency in oil circles at present. There have been some quite significant developments without which the experience of the last few months would have crude prices harrying triple digits. ‘Once bitten, twice shy’, as the old adage goes, and because oil supply has shown great resilience in finding its way to places that need it, and the ability for this conflict to be put back into a bottle at moment’s notice, what appears to be escalation, and the threat for more, is falling upon a stoic oil audience. 

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Reaction is Becoming Muted

16 Jul 2026

Reaction is Becoming Muted

Another dawn and another bout of war watch. Hostilities seem to be intensifying as there have been five-straight days of weapons exchange and nothing to suggest by the reported leaders of our duelling couple that hostilities are likely to end very soon. The US President has once again briefed on how Iran wants to “settle so badly, but if not, we will finish it off.” From the Iranian side, and as seen in the New York Times, a top Iranian official said, “we must fear neither war nor negotiations.”

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A Memorandum of War

15 Jul 2026

A Memorandum of War

Markets are looking down the barrel of another period in time of competing headlines which will be fuelled by the turnarounds from one Donald J. Trump. Fortunately, the US President has been talked down from slapping a 20 percent fee on ships aided by the US in negotiating a Hormuz crossing, but his mouthing of trade deals and investments in kind, brings a whole new level of confusion to the miasma created in tariffs and sanctions by this White House.

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