Crude oil just keeps climbing! WTI crude and Brent crude both surged at today’s opening, breaking above $100 per barrel. Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Khamenei, officially succeeded as the new Supreme Leader, marking the beginning of Iran's Avenger era. With the Middle East in chaos, U.S. inflation pressures will intensify—forget rate cuts, we might even see rate hikes instead. $BTC really has a tough fate, such a struggle.