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Crude Oil Price

West Texas Intermediate crude oil spot price, $ per barrel

$99.97 in Oct 2026+$29.68 since Sep 2024
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5-year rangeThe highest and lowest readings of the last five years, as a band. One-series charts only.High and lowMarks the highest and lowest readings in the window shown.
Current·Data to Oct 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

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The U.S. benchmark oil price, averaged by month. It sets the base cost for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

What this chart reads

Sources

WTI Crude Oil. Source: Palanor pulls this series from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. The underlying series is DCOILWTICO.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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