Saudi Arabia Becomes the Oil Market’s Biggest Wild Card
energy_supply_shockMiddle EastOilPrice13 Oct, 15:00 UTC
Context
Houthi attacks threaten Saudi oil infrastructure and Gulf shipping as Brent hovers near $105 per barrel. Trump’s Fuel-Price Problem Is Becoming a Political One - The Trump administration’s Russia diesel deal has failed to bring about substantial change in US fuel prices, triggering a 3-4% decline in heating oil futures, raising the risks of a midterm election debacle for the White House. - Whilst neither diesel nor heating oil have surpassed the levels seen in October 2022 (the month before President Biden’s mid-term elections)…
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
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