JPMorgan is throwing up its hands and conceding that it simply doesn’t know what comes next for oil prices due to the Iran War.
“For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view,” JPMorgan’s head of commodities strategy Natasha Kaneva said in a Sept. 17 note to clients. “We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
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JPMorgan’s reluctance to provide a possible benchmark for oil prices underscores the difficulty of predicting the fallout of a conflict that has no end in sight. The investment bank forecasted in mid-July that Brent crude would average $86 per barrel in the third quarter of 2026. There would be no “long-lasting damage to energy market production,” JPMorgan said at the time.
In the most recent note, JPMorgan said it had three “economic redlines” that it didn’t believe the Trump administration would cross. Among them: $100 for a barrel of crude, gasoline hovering near a national average of $5 per gallon and a 10-year Treasury yield near 5%. The latter signals that investors are demanding higher interest to be swayed into buying Treasury bonds.
‘Those lines have been crossed’
As of Monday afternoon, oil traded at $95 per barrel of Brent crude, the international oil benchmark. It’s a slight drop considering oil prices hovered around $100 for much of the summer due to the scarce supplies reaching energy markets. Gas prices continue climbing upward with the national average standing at $4.48 per gallon, according to AAA. Ten-year Treasury yields are about to breach the 5% threshold for the first time under Trump.
“Six months later, many of those lines have been crossed, yet the exit strategy is less clear, not more,” Kaneva wrote alongside analysts Lyuba Savinova and Artem Fakhretdinov. The trio conceded that there were scarce signs of Iran and the U.S. publicly pursuing a diplomatic off-ramp that would quell pricing unrest in energy markets.
“With no clear signals from either the U.S. or Iran that they are prepared to de-escalate — and absent a diplomatic breakthrough on Sept. 24, when President Trump and President Xi are set to meet in DC — the assumption that the disruption is temporary is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain,” the JPMorgan analysts said.
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