WTI crude's 25.72% monthly rally is pricing a live Iran escalation risk that the rates market is not reflecting; the 2-year Treasury yield's 100th-percentile stretch is a fiscal supply story, not a war-risk repricing, and the two will not stay decoupled indefinitely.

What would prove it wrong

If the 2-year Treasury yield falls meaningfully below 4.31% in the sessions following the 27-28 July Treasury auctions even as WTI crude holds its gains, the fiscal-supply framing for the front end fails and a flight-to-quality bid becomes the better explanation.

Stated probability the thesis holds

60% · 8d horizon

Status

Standing

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