The Next Oil Shock Is Never the Last
energy_supply_shockMiddle EastOilPrice14 Sept, 19:00 UTC
Context
Here we go again. The Houthis have seized the Yemeni Red Sea coast, the port of Mokha and Perim Island, which divides the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait into two channels. The group now occupies positions from which it can monitor or threaten one of the world’s most important shipping routes. Normally, that would be alarming enough. But the Strait of Hormuz on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula is already severely disrupted. Saudi Arabia consequently relied more heavily on its East–West pipeline to move crude from the Gulf to Red…
What it means
Causal chain
No clear market signal
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- Severity
- the event's market impact, 1–5
- Direction
- ↑ / ↓ likely price move for the asset
- Exp. move
- the size of the abnormal move we'd expect if the call plays out — not a claim a move will happen:Most flagged events don't move beyond noise; those count against us (see the track record).Ssmall<1%Mmoderate1–5%Llarge>5%
- Timeframe
- the window we measure over:1dshort5dmedium21dlong
- Conviction
- how well-established the directional call is (textbook → speculative) — not a guaranteed outcome:lowaveragestrong
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