WTI Crude Falls 1.5% Intraday to $99.16 a Barrel

The retreat below $100 matters less for the headline move than for what it says about momentum in a market that has spent recent sessions oscillating around that threshold. For crypto and RWA desks, oil's direction has become a rough proxy for the broader risk appetite that tends to spill into digital assets, so a softer crude print can feed into the same macro conversation. Whether the move holds into the close or reverses intraday is the open question worth tracking.