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shortage.life · session_log · 2026-05-17 14:32 UTCPID 47023 · ttyS0 · uptime 312d

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shortage.life
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$ shortage commodity get OIL.BRT
> spot: $84.27
> stress_index: 0.62 WATCH
> updated 14:31 UTC

// readout · live

BRENT     $84.27 ▲
TTF       €31.50 ▼
OPEC_SP   3.8 mb/d ●
SPR_US    372.4 Mb
FAO_FFPI  121.4 ▲
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BRENT$84.27▲0.50%WTI$80.15▲0.39%TTF€31.50▼3.67%NBP72.4p▼1.50%HH$2.84▲1.43%SPR_US372.4 Mb18.7dEU_GAS78.3%▲0.4ppOPEC_SPARE3.8 mb/d▼0.3FAO_FFPI121.4▲0.8WHT.SRW$6.42/bu▲1.84%RIC.THAI$612/t▲0.32%UREA$378/t▲2.71%LITH$13,820/t▼0.84%COBL$31,400/tCU$9,820/t▲0.65%NI$17,420/t▼1.10%BRENT$84.27▲0.50%WTI$80.15▲0.39%TTF€31.50▼3.67%NBP72.4p▼1.50%HH$2.84▲1.43%SPR_US372.4 Mb18.7dEU_GAS78.3%▲0.4ppOPEC_SPARE3.8 mb/d▼0.3FAO_FFPI121.4▲0.8WHT.SRW$6.42/bu▲1.84%RIC.THAI$612/t▲0.32%UREA$378/t▲2.71%LITH$13,820/t▼0.84%COBL$31,400/tCU$9,820/t▲0.65%NI$17,420/t▼1.10%
~/commodities/oil·category: energycite · /api/v1/commodities/OIL.BRT

Brent Crude / OIL.BRT

energy$/bblupdated: 14:31 UTC
WATCH
SPOT · $/bbl$84.27
Δ24H▲0.50%
Δ7D▲1.42%
Δ30D▼2.47%
STRESS · v3.20.62
READ MODE// long-form zoneEDITORIAL · commodity analysisdesk: Markets·last revision 14:31 UTC
Commodity analysis · OIL.BRT · v3.2

Brent Crude, and what the reading means.

The global crude benchmark. Watched for spare-capacity tightness and Persian Gulf transit risk.

Desk Markets·EN · FR · ES, DE pending·sources: EIA, OPEC, IEA, FAO, USDA

The global crude benchmark. Watched for spare-capacity tightness and Persian Gulf transit risk. At the latest reading, Brent Crude prints a spot of $84.27 — a move of ▲0.50% over the past twenty-four hours and ▼2.47% across the trailing thirty days.

The v3.2 stress index places OIL.BRT at 0.62 — a watch reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.

For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Brent Crude compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry OIL.BRT as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.

[ 01 ]  $_SCENARIOS · with OIL.BRT exposure

// HORMUZ-2026 · ELEVATED

Persian Gulf 5-day tanker disruption.

prob 0.34 · severity 4.2 / 58 countries affected · oil + wheat + insurance + lithium
open scenario →
// SANCTIONS-Q3 · WATCH

Q3 secondary sanctions on Iranian petrochem.

prob 0.58 · severity 3.0 / 52 countries primary · 12 cascade exposure
open scenario →
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