WTI Crude Falls 2.0% Intraday to $99.67 a Barrel

The symbolic break below $100 matters more than the exact move, since round-number thresholds tend to draw attention from macro traders who treat crude as a proxy for risk appetite. With no stated catalyst in the report, the move reads as sentiment-driven rather than tied to a specific supply or demand event, which makes its durability hard to assess. The open question is whether this dip holds or reverses, and whether it starts showing up in broader risk-asset correlations.