Oil posts its first weekly close above $100 since May despite a Friday pullback on Hormuz-talks hopes
WTI settled at $100.05 (-2.4%) and Brent at $104.61 (-2.8%) on Friday as profit-taking and tentative optimism over Iran-Gulf shipping talks eased prices, but both benchmarks gained about 9% on the week — the first weekly close above $100 since May. The IEA said more than 10M bpd of Gulf output is shut in, deferring a supply recovery to 2027.
Limited coverage: only 2 of 3+ perspectives covered this story in the last 72h.
Read the 2 perspectives
A Friday dip masks a big weekly gain driven by the Hormuz crisis.
CNBC and Yahoo Finance reported oil falling Friday on profit-taking and talk of possible Iran-Gulf negotiations, yet posting sharp weekly gains to close above $100 for the first time since May.
The IEA frames the shock as a structural supply loss, not a spike, with recovery pushed to 2027.
The IEA's September report said more than 10 mb/d of Gulf output is shut in and global supply is set to fall in 2026, with Gulf diesel exports at roughly a quarter of pre-war levels and a recovery deferred to 2027.