Daily Brent and WTI Crude Oil Prices with Historical Trends

Daily historical prices for Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil benchmarks span from 1986 to 2026. The dataset captures long-term market trends for these key global oil price references. Author and organization details are not provided.

Use Cases

• Forecast future daily Brent or WTI prices using historical price series and long-term trend features.
• Analyze volatility and correlation between the Brent and WTI price series over different market periods.
• Model structural breaks or regime shifts in oil markets using the 40-year time range.
• Backtest trading strategies that involve spread trading between the two crude oil benchmarks.

Strengths

• Covers a 40-year time range from 1986 to 2026.
• Includes daily frequency data for two major global oil benchmarks.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and data completeness for the forecast period (2026) are unknown.
• Lack of metadata on price calculation (e.g., settlement price) and potential adjustments limits reproducibility.

Provenance

Time Range

1986–2026

Geography

Global (Brent - North Sea, WTI - North America)