News sentiment
Tone of coverage- Media mood
- 100/100 prev. day 65
- News volume
- 110% of 90-day avg.
- Buzz
- 31/100
WTI Crude Oil · Energy · live quote updated every 5 seconds
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WTI crude oil (XTI/USD) is West Texas Intermediate, the light, sweet crude that serves as the US oil benchmark. Its futures trade on NYMEX with delivery at Cushing, Oklahoma, and the XTI/USD price here is a spot quote that tracks them. Oil is one of the most traded commodities in the world, and WTI moves on OPEC+ supply decisions, US shale output, refinery demand and the summer driving season, as well as on geopolitical risk in the Middle East and Russia, Chinese demand and the strength of the US dollar. The biggest scheduled events are the weekly US inventory reports: the American Petroleum Institute figures on Tuesday afternoon and the official EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report on Wednesday at 10:30 New York time. Moves of 2 percent or more in a day are common, far more than on the major currency pairs. On ForexR you can follow the live WTI price, use daily pivot points to frame support and resistance, size stops with ATR and confirm trend on the multi-timeframe chart. When you are ready, KCM Trade provides regulated access.
OPEC+ production decisions, US shale output and inventories, refinery demand, supply risks in the Middle East and Russia, Chinese demand, growth expectations and the US dollar, since oil is priced in dollars.
The EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report comes out on Wednesdays at 10:30 New York time, a day later in weeks with a US federal holiday. The American Petroleum Institute publishes its own estimate on Tuesdays at 16:30 New York time. Both can move WTI sharply.
WTI trades almost around the clock from Sunday evening to Friday, with a short daily break. Liquidity and volatility peak in New York hours, especially from 9:00 to 14:30 New York time, when US futures volume is heaviest and inventory data is released.
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