Brent crude fell 0.91% to $76.38 as Strait of Hormuz reopening eased supply fears and Trump ordered a DOJ probe into gasoline pricing.
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Oil prices extended their slide in Asian trading Wednesday as the Strait of Hormuz reopening eased supply fears and President Donald Trump ordered a Department of Justice investigation into gasoline pricing.
Brent crude for August fell 0.91% to $76.38 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate for August dropped 0.94% to $72.52.
Trump accused oil companies of keeping pump prices high despite the recent crude selloff. "The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil," he wrote on Truth Social. "I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I'm seeing!"
Karen Young, a senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, called the post "political theater." She told CNBC that state and local taxes layer onto gasoline prices at the station level, and that crude price declines take weeks to pass through the refinery and distribution chain to consumers.
Investors also tracked signs that maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could normalize. The International Maritime Organization said more than 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Persian Gulf will begin exiting after safety guarantees were secured. IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said the operation would proceed "in close cooperation with Iran, Oman, all other coastal States in the region, the United States and the maritime industry."
DHL Global Forwarding Greater China CEO Aditi Rasquinha said supply chain pressures from longer transit times and disrupted air freight capacity should ease with the Strait reopening, though normalization will take time.
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For context on the broader commodity move, see crude oil profile and Gold slips to two-week low as Fed rate-hike bets buoy dollar.
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