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Brent Crude Has Decoupled From Reality, Says Wall Street Veteran Currie

Wall Street veteran Jeff Currie said Brent crude has become little more than a “sentiment contract,” weakening its usefulness as a tool for managing price volatility. “Everything energy-related is rallying except Brent,” said Currie, founder and CEO of investment firm Real Macro, adding that the benchmark has “decoupled from the real world.” He said Brent’s roughly $106 a barrel does not reflect supply threats stretching from the Strait of Hormuz to the Black Sea.

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The critique matters less as a price call than as a benchmark-integrity question: if the world's most-watched crude marker tracks sentiment rather than physical supply risk, hedging and risk-transfer across energy and related RWA markets get noisier. That affects anyone using Brent as a reference point — producers, refiners, and the growing set of tokenized commodity products that lean on it. The open question is whether this is a temporary dislocation or a lasting shift in how the benchmark behaves.

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