RoboMacro is an AI-powered macroeconomic research platform that provides daily research notes, economic calendars, central bank monitoring, quant strategy tools, and equity screeners. It covers 20+ countries including US, UK, Eurozone, Japan, and China — all 100% automated by AI with no human in the loop.

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RoboMacro was created by Chris Apostolou, a former economist and credit analyst with 9+ years of buy-side and sell-side experience in macroeconomic research and financial markets.

RoboMacro offers free access to most of its research content including daily macro notes, the payrolls dashboard with 100+ charts, economic calendars, and central bank monitoring.

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RoboMacro pulls data from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), OECD, World Bank, BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and other official statistical agencies. Charts update daily or monthly depending on the data release schedule.

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Daily research notes are published every business day. Economic calendar data and central bank hawk/dove scores are updated in real-time. Strategy tools and equity screeners update daily. The payrolls dashboard updates monthly when new BLS data is released.

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Global Energy Observatory

Oil Markets

42 live commodities with 15-minute charts, computed spreads, and real-time news across the global energy complex.

● 42 live prices · Updated 10:17 AM UTC

18 up · 8 down · 16 flat

5603 data points · charts build over time

Key Spreads

Brent–WTI

+6.37

Atlantic Basin premium

Dubai–WTI

-7.92

Asian crude discount

Brent–Dubai

+14.29

East-West spread (EFS)

Urals–Brent

-6.48

Russian sanction discount

TTF–HH

+65.31

EU vs US gas premium

JKM–HH

+18.70

Asia vs US LNG premium

Oman–Brent

-12.79

Middle East premium/discount

Azeri–Brent

+4.62

Caspian light premium

Refinery & Derived

3-2-1 Crack Spread

+62.75

Refinery margin: (2×gasoline + 1×heating oil)/3 − WTI

2-1-1 Crack Spread

+68.00

Refinery margin: (gasoline + ULSD diesel)/2 − WTI

Gasoline Crack

+48.47

Gasoline refinery margin vs WTI crude

Diesel Crack

+87.53

ULSD diesel refinery margin vs WTI crude

Heating Oil Crack

+91.31

Heating oil refinery margin vs WTI crude

Frac Spread

+4.57

NGL margin: propane (MMBtu equiv) − Henry Hub gas

wcs discount

-13.44

Gold/Oil Ratio

+44.40

Barrels of Brent per ounce of gold

oman brent

-12.79

azeri brent

+4.62

Gold/Silver Ratio

+70.10

Ounces of silver per ounce of gold

Pt/Pd Ratio

+1.29

Platinum vs palladium relative value

Singapore Gasoil–Brent

+51.40

Singapore gasoil premium to Brent

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Crude Oil Benchmarks

WTI Crude

LIVE⠿

84.67$/bbl

0.00(0.0%)

5d · 15min

Brent Crude

LIVE⠿

91.04$/bbl

0.00(0.0%)

5d · 15min

Dubai Crude

LIVE⠿

76.75$/bbl

+0.46(+0.6%)

5d · 15min

OPEC Basket

LIVE⠿

89.44$/bbl

+1.05(+1.2%)

5d · 15min

Basrah Medium

LIVE⠿

58.51$/bbl

+2.17(+3.9%)

5d · 15min

Basrah Heavy

LIVE⠿

56.21$/bbl

+2.17(+4.0%)

5d · 15min

Urals Crude

LIVE⠿

84.56$/bbl

+12.66(+17.6%)

5d · 15min

Western Canadian Select

LIVE⠿

71.23$/bbl

0.00(0.0%)

5d · 15min

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Natural Gas & LNG

Henry Hub Gas

LIVE⠿

2.75$/MMBtu

0.00(0.0%)

5d · 15min

Dutch TTF Gas

LIVE⠿

68.06$/MWh

0.00(0.0%)

5d · 15min

JKM LNG (Asia)

LIVE⠿

21.45$/MMBtu

+0.02(+0.1%)

5d · 15min

UK Gas

LIVE⠿

144.3p/therm

+1.59(+1.1%)

5d · 15min

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Refined Products

RBOB Gasoline

LIVE⠿

3.17$/gal

+0.06(+1.9%)

5d · 15min

Heating Oil

LIVE⠿

4.19$/gal

+0.10(+2.4%)

5d · 15min

ULSD Diesel

LIVE⠿

4.10$/gal

5d · 15min

Jet Fuel

LIVE⠿

3.58$/gal

5d · 15min

Propane

LIVE⠿

0.670$/gal

5d · 15min

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Carbon & Coal

EU Carbon

LIVE⠿

81.26€/t CO₂

-0.76(-0.9%)

5d · 15min

UK Carbon

LIVE⠿

58.27£/t CO₂

-0.18(-0.3%)

5d · 15min

Thermal Coal

LIVE⠿

120.1$/mt

-0.15(-0.1%)

5d · 15min

Newcastle Coal

LIVE⠿

130.2$/mt

5d · 15min

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Singapore Benchmarks

Singapore Gasoil

LIVE⠿

142.4$/bbl

-0.20(-0.1%)

5d · 15min

Singapore Mogas 92

LIVE⠿

113.5$/bbl

-2.14(-1.9%)

5d · 15min

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European Benchmarks

Rotterdam Gasoil

LIVE⠿

1316.0$/mt

+28.25(+2.2%)

5d · 15min

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Petrochemicals

Methanol

LIVE⠿

384.3$/mt

+0.08(+0.0%)

5d · 15min

Methanol (CNY)

LIVE⠿

2594.0¥/mt

-29.00(-1.1%)

5d · 15min

Styrene

LIVE⠿

1287.4$/mt

+0.25(+0.0%)

5d · 15min

Naphtha

LIVE⠿

778.4$/mt

-3.86(-0.5%)

5d · 15min

Polyethylene

LIVE⠿

1145.3$/mt

+3.33(+0.3%)

5d · 15min

Polypropylene

LIVE⠿

1227.4$/mt

+3.35(+0.3%)

5d · 15min

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Metals

Gold

LIVE⠿

4042.7$/oz

0.00(0.0%)

5d · 15min

Silver (LBMA)

LIVE⠿

57.66$/oz

0.00(0.0%)

5d · 15min

Platinum

LIVE⠿

1651.5$/oz

+12.00(+0.7%)

5d · 15min

Palladium

LIVE⠿

1279.5$/oz

+3.00(+0.2%)

5d · 15min

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Intelligence

US Rig Count

LIVE⠿

588.0rigs

5d · 15min

Market Intelligence

Spreads & indicators computed by OilPriceAPI. Updates every 5 min.

Crack Spread (3-2-1)

Refining margin proxy

57.30USD/bbl

Crude input$90.12/bbl

Gasoline$133.14/bbl

Diesel$175.98/bbl

Type3-2-1

+4.00 (+7.50%) 1d

Curve Structure

Contango / backwardation

backwardationextreme

Term slope -28.50%

Front (Oct 2026)$91.04

Back (Mar 2027)$80.23

M1–M3 spread$6.64

M1–M12 spread$15.34

Refinery Margins

USGC · Singapore · NWE

USGCextreme

61.88$/bbl

97th pct

+3.86 (+6.65%) 1d

Basis Spreads

Brent-WTI spread

5.45USD/bbl

normal

79th percentile (1y)

BRENT CRUDE$90.12/bbl

WTI$84.67/bbl

Physical Premium

Spot vs futures divergence

1.70USD/bbl

(1.89%)

normal backwardation

Spot$91.82

Futures$90.12

Storage Analytics

Cushing utilization & draw

19.4MMbbl

of 61 MMbbl

very low

Utilization31.8%

Weekly draw-0.67 MMbbl

Annualized-34.84 MMbbl/yr

Fuel Switching

Oil-parity (17.2% rule)

17.7% ratio

vs 100% parity threshold

gas cheap vs oil

Gas price$2.75/MMBtu

Crude price$90.12/bbl

Oil equiv.$15.54/MMBtu

Switch price$15.54/MMBtu

Price Context

Percentiles & anomalies

No data available

Annotations

Anomalies · streaks · records

velocityBRENT_CRUDE_USD surge of 25.2% over 5 days — 4.21 std dev from normal

Data: FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), EIA (US Energy Information Administration), OilPriceAPI (live prices, fuel prices, futures, petrochemicals, metals). News: OilPrice.com, EIA, CNBC, BBC, Reuters. Charts update daily. Inventories update weekly. Live prices update every 5-15 minutes. News refreshes every 5 minutes.