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The unwind is sharp because the market had priced continued escalation; the pause reframes Iran's near-term export trajectory and pulls geopolitical risk premium out of energy.
A round-number breach of $100 Brent is a macro signal traders can't ignore: energy-driven inflation expectations re-price higher, and rate-cut bets for the year get pushed back.
A roughly 15% of seaborne oil transits the strait; any sustained disruption is a direct supply shock for Brent, diesel, and jet fuel, with knock-on risk-off across equities and crypto.
The framing recasts a US military guarantee over the world's busiest oil chokepoint as a paid service, a posture that rattles Gulf allies and adds a new risk premium to crude.
The closure of the narrowest chokepoint in global oil supply, contested in real time by the US Navy, is a textbook risk-off catalyst for crude, gold, and BTC.
The IEA's 2026 demand decline forecast, its first outside the pandemic shock, lands as Middle East supply disruptions and a structural EV shift pull consumption in opposite directions.
Treasury's general license lets existing Iranian crude reach buyers for two months, a stopgap aimed at capping prices without easing the broader sanctions regime.
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