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Crude steadied at $92 after the late-September unwind, but the distillate crack near $98 a barrel shows refinery tightness never left the product barrel.
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Gold tests its 20-day average near $4,426 as the conflict premium fades into a higher-for-longer rates repricing; structural demand still underpins.
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Ukraine's General Staff reported strikes on the Kuibyshev and Bashneft-UNPZ refineries. The tracker now holds 26 entries, with cumulative confirmed capacity near 2,177-4,485 kb/d.
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WTI handed back about $12 from the 17 September close on de-escalation headlines, yet the ULSD distillate crack holds at $96.5 a barrel, down from roughly $104 to $106 last week and against roughly $30 a year earlier, and Russian refinery runs sit about 30 percent below year-ago levels. Inside the strike tracker, the two scenarios that decide the next move, and the level that matters.
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Gold defends $4,333 support as Treasury yields near 5%, silver outperforms to $66.86, and copper rests at the month high. Here are the levels to watch.
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EU gas storage sits 15.84 points below the five-year average heading into winter. TTF near EUR 76 against a EUR 100 refill threshold tells the story.
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Confirmed strikes on Russian refineries since July have put a cumulative 2.0 to 4.3 million barrels a day of capacity offline, and Russia's export bans keep diesel, jet and gasoline cracks at records while Brent holds near $104.
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Brent faded from $103.87 while the US ULSD crack held near a record $104. The premium deep dive on why refining capacity, not crude, is where the tightness lives, what the curve prices, and how gold at $4,333 and silver at $63 fit the same trade.
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A Danube bridge strike trims Ukrainian grain exports a third; wheat firms to $725 and corn to $533.75 from Friday's settle. What it means for food prices.
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CREA puts Russia's Hormuz-era oil windfall near EUR 31 billion in six months. The refinery campaign carves a product hole in it, and September 24's Trump-Xi meeting is the test.
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Crude eases near $98 as Middle East barrels return, but the ULSD crack holds near $106 as the refining squeeze, not crude supply, binds the market.
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Gold holds near $4,380 with the US 10-year at 5.00% and silver near $66.6. Why the metals bid has stopped being a rates trade, and the levels that decide it.
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Russian seaborne diesel and gasoil loadings are running about 81% below their five-year average, and the ULSD crack sits near a record $106 a barrel versus roughly $30 a year earlier. The barrel eased and the refined product did not: refining margins are the transmission channel between the supply shock and what you pay at the pump. Inside, the loading numbers, the strike tracker, and both sides of the trade.
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While the headlines chase crude, Ukrainian long-range drones have cut Russian refinery runs to a 20-year low, about 30% below a year ago. Diesel cracks have more than tripled to $104 a barrel and US pump diesel is at an all-time high. Same story, one cause. Inside: the strike-by-strike tracker, the spreads, and what to watch next.
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Gold futures settled Thursday at $4,399.70, up 0.6% on the week from Monday's open, after falling to $4,273.30 before the Fed's hike. Central banks bought a record 288.9 tonnes in Q2.
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December silver futures settled Thursday at $66.10, up 3.1% on the week, while gold held near $4,400 even after the Fed's first hike since 2023. The through-line across metals is supply, not demand.
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Gold slid under $4,300 after the Fed's first hike in three years, but a record 289t of sovereign buying in Q2 is the structural floor keeping the medium-term thesis alive.
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Gold holds $4,330 into the FOMC as Kalshi prices a 62% hike and CME FedWatch 92.5%. A record central-bank bid collides with the first hike since 2023.
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WTI falls to $104.81 as crude hands back the Hormuz spike. Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline stays shut, with the Yanbu storage clock the key watch.
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Gold holds the $4,330 floor into a Fed decision priced at 78-90% for a hike. Record central-bank buying and historic ETF inflows argue the bid is structural, not momentum.
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Silver closed at $63.67, 6% below its September 9 high, in a paper-driven pullback ahead of the Fed decision. Support at $63.51 is the line that matters.
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WTI holds near $102.83 and Brent near $107.41 as Saudi Arabia's Hormuz-bypass pipeline stays shut and Iran-Gulf talks stall. Crude is up 18.2% in a month.
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WTI broke above $102 and Brent neared $107 as Saudi strikes and Hormuz attacks reopened the oil risk premium. Here is what to watch in Oman this week.
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Record Q2 central-bank gold buying of 289 tonnes and the second-largest August ETF inflows on record, with levels to watch ahead of the September 16 FOMC.
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