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WTI slipped to $88.48 (-0.23%), giving back overnight gains as Hormuz ceasefire optimism overcame US-strike concerns. Tight range as traders waited for the next Iran headline.

Oil is trading the binary — every Iran news cycle whipsaws the tape. The underlying physical market remains tight (OPEC+ disciplined), but headline risk dominates positioning until resolution.

Any Hormuz deal confirmation pushes to $85; failure or fresh escalation reopens $95. Weekly EIA inventories Wednesday remain in the background. $90 is the headline-driven pivot.

Meta closed unchanged at $635.29 as Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp subscription chatter went sideways. Anthropic $1T valuation headlines redirected AI-capex attention away from in-house Meta spend.

META is in a holding pattern — fundamentals are fine, but the marginal AI capex narrative is rotating to pure-plays (Anthropic, Micron) over hyperscalers. Subscription monetization story is too early to price.

Any concrete subscription pricing detail; Reality Labs Q2 read-through. $640 caps; support $625. PCE Friday matters less for META than for rate-sensitive peers.