Brent: Range-bound swings with Middle East risk – Rabobank

Rabobank’s RaboResearch Global Economics & Markets team notes that Brent Oil has fallen 5% again despite ongoing Middle East tensions, underscoring a pattern of repeated price pullbacks. The report highlights how Iran’s leverage via Hormuz and sanctions relief proposals could reshape Oil flows and global economic risks, while stressing that actual energy supply from the region has not yet changed materially.

Oil reacts to shifting Iran dynamics

"It’s been another long, tiring tweet-by-tweet hike through Middle East geopolitics since Friday; yet we end up this morning where we were even as spot Brent oil, for the nth time in this crisis, is down 5%. For people paid to spot patterns, that looks suspiciously like one."

"‘Oil for oil’ first. The US will remove sanctions on Iranian oil and its blockade if Iran removes the mines it placed in Hormuz and its own blockade on the strait."

"Crucially, in doing this, Iran gains revenue but loses its chokehold on the world economy, which is its most effective leverage."

"So, a deal is there for the taking – if this is about compromise and reason. But is it?"

"The amount of energy flowing from the Middle East hasn’t changed yet even if oil is again cheaper on your screen."

(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)