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Oil Market Increasingly Pricing in Diplomatic Deadlock Risk Premium - WSJ

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The Strait of Hormuz has been shut for three weeks, global oil inventories are draining at 3 million barrels per day, and WTI is down 19% from its high. When the market prices a "diplomatic deadlock risk premium" into a commodity that's getting physically scarcer by the hour, the premium is too low.

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The Indian crude basket hit $123.29 per barrel last week, approaching levels recorded in March 2012, and adding 86% to the price Indian oil marketing companies pay, local media have reported, also noting the effect of a cheaper rupee. Since Indian companies pay for the oil they buy from abroad in U.

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