WTI Crude Oil Price in July 2026 prediction

Crude is sitting near ninety-three dollars right now. Getting to sixty means a collapse of over thirty-five dollars in the remaining weeks of July. That is not a correction — that is a full market breakdown, the kind that only happens when demand falls off a cliff and supply floods in simultaneously. The bearish story is real. Iran talks are progressing, Hormuz is calming, OPEC+ is signaling more barrels, and the war premium is leaking out fast. But here is the thing — the market already knew all of that. Most of that downside was priced in during the slide from earlier highs. There is no fresh shock sitting in the pipeline. To actually tag sixty, you would need a demand collapse on top of a supply surge on top of a forced liquidation event — a perfect storm that July simply has no ingredients for. Support around seventy and sixty-five will act as a floor unless something genuinely unprecedented happens overnight. The bears have teeth but not that many teeth. Sell the drama, hold the line — I would back No here because the distance between where oil is and where it needs to go is just too far for the time left on the clock.