Oil price weakness proves demand destruction, not supply glut
Crude falls while Hormuz chokes because consumption is collapsing faster than Iran can interdict supply.
OECD oil demand decline year-over-year through June
Brent prices dropping despite eight tankers U-turning at Hormuz and Sunday traffic falling to a trickle demonstrates that demand destruction overrides physical chokepoint risk.
One pattern. Trace it.
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A pattern worth naming
(2) ECB July meeting minutes (late July) and eurozone flash PMIs (July 24) — these will confirm or break Moulin's 'good position' narrative. A PMI below 46 reopens the cut debate.
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For the first time since 2020, oil prices fall during an active Hormuz disruption instead of spiking
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Central banks now cite falling energy costs as justification to hold rates rather than cut them
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Prediction markets absorbed $2B in June volume that would have flowed to options desks two years ago
“Are we pricing euro loans assuming no ECB cut through Q3, or are we still embedding a September cut that Moulin just took off the table?”
Ask your treasurer whether Q3 hedging books model demand collapse scenarios, not just supply-shock and glut cases.
By Joseph Lancaster, Editor — with research from Pine Needle's intelligence layer.
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