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News articleYahoo Finance· April 25, 2026

The Billion-Barrel Hormuz Oil Shock Is About to Crash Demand

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The Billion-Barrel Hormuz Oil Shock Is About to Crash Demand (Bloomberg) -- The Strait of Hormuz oil shock has yet to crash demand as the rich world borrows from its stocks and pays up to secure supply…
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  • The longer Hormuz doesn't reopen, the more consumption must recalibrate lower, either through prices people can't afford or government intervention to force consumption down

    60% confidence

  • A billion barrels of oil supply loss is already all-but guaranteed — more than double the emergency inventories released by governments after the conflict began

    60% confidence

  • Global oil demand is on track to slump the most in five years this month

    60% confidence

  • Demand destruction is happening in non-visible pricing centers and is at a critical inflection point; the adjustment must grow larger and larger if the Hormuz closure continues

    60% confidence

  • Analysts are warning of weakness in consumption of gasoline and diesel following US pump prices reaching $4 per gallon

    60% confidence

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