WTI's climb from the low $70s in early July to above $80 this week tracks the Hormuz escalation timeline closely, culminating Thursday morning when US forces disabled a tanker near Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal. Gold has moved in the opposite direction since the July 13 flare-up, a split traders are linking to a widening Government of Canada five-year yield spread and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's continued refusal to signal rate cuts, rather than to the conflict itself.
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