Brent crude oil is the most frequent co-covered peer, appearing in 2 of the 2 tracked stories. Source depth averages 7.5 original sources per story, versus 2.4 across the same-window beat baseline. Across a 13-day span, the pace is roughly 1.1 stories per week.
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What the coverage shows about US crude oil (WTI)
Brent crude oil is the most frequent co-covered peer, appearing in 2 of the 2 tracked stories. Source depth averages 7.5 original sources per story, versus 2.4 across the same-window beat baseline. Across a 13-day span, the pace is roughly 1.1 stories per week. The clearest coverage concentration is fed: 1 of 2 stories, with the rest divided among 1 other category. At 6, the average consequence score sits above the same-window beat average of 5.8. We currently track 2 Finance stories that mention US crude oil (WTI), published between July 29, 2026 and August 10, 2026.
Stories tracked
2
Per week
1.1
Sources per story
7.5
Computed from the 2 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 311 Finance stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Appears alongside
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering US crude oil (WTI). Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
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