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Brent crude is again approaching the psychologically important $100 area, putting higher oil targets back into focus after a year of rapid hard asset repricing. Market participants are watching $100, $120, $126 and $130 as key levels while Hormuz disruption, falling inventories and shrinking emergency buffers keep upside risks alive.

Gold, copper, Brent crude and agricultural markets are increasingly moving as part of a broader hard-asset rotation rather than isolated rallies. FXCOINZ examines why fiscal stress, supply constraints, energy security and food-market pressure are drawing traders back to commodities.

Investors sought liquidity from both U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs and private credit funds in the second quarter, underscoring a broader defensive turn across risk assets. Private credit redemption requests reached $15.6 billion, while spot bitcoin ETF outflows neared $5 billion as BTC logged another quarterly decline.