Oil Surges: WTI Up 2.0% to $98.42, Brent Tops $107

A two-percent-plus move in both benchmarks in a single session points to a broad, macro-driven repricing rather than a contract-specific story, since WTI and Brent moved in lockstep. That matters most for tokenized commodity and RWA holders whose valuations track these benchmarks, and for crypto risk appetite more generally, given how closely energy-led inflation reads feed into rate expectations. Whether this proves a one-day spike or the start of a sustained shift in the crude complex is the open question worth watching.