Crude Spread

What a barrel of Brent fetches over a barrel of WTI — and the benchmarks behind it.

Last observation —

EIA via FRED · daily spot

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Brent − WTI

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Five-year range

Brent − WTI spread

Wide spreads pull US crude onto export tankers; narrow ones keep it home.

Crude benchmarks

WTI Cushing and Brent Europe, dollars per barrel — one scale, same units.

Henry Hub

Natural gas spot, $/MMBtu.

Retail gasoline

US regular, all formulations, $/gal, weekly.

Observations

The rows behind every chart above.

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retrieved via Federal Reserve Economic Data. Crude and gas series are daily spot, published with a lag of several business days; gasoline is a weekly Monday survey. Percentiles and realized volatility are computed from the series shown. Not investment advice.