BRENT CLEARS $100. GULF WAR PUSHES THE TAPE.

Brent has cleared a hundred dollars. That is no longer a warning. Reuters, Singapore, 9 September: benchmark Brent crude futures rose past $100 a barrel on Wednesday, the first time since 24 July. The print on that wrap: $100.07 a barrel by 07:21 GMT, up $2.15, or 2.2 percent. U.S. West Texas Intermediate was at $94.73, up $1.70, or 1.83 percent. Those four numbers are the file. This Extra does not invent a session high above $100.07. It does not round $100.07 down to a slogan and leave the cents off the tape.

This is a FILE UPDATED of the Extra that sat at /money/brent-leans-on-99 when the tape was still $99.33 and $99.49. The slug does not change. The old hed said Brent leans on $99. The new hed is the Reuters breach: BRENT CLEARS $100. GULF WAR PUSHES THE TAPE. A hundred is now on the tape because Reuters put it there at 07:21 GMT. It was not on the tape at 02:12 GMT, when Reuters had $99.33. Both prints were real. Only the later one cleared the round number.

Reuters $100.07 at 07:21 GMT. First through $100 since 24 July. No invented peak.

CONFIRMED — attribution: Reuters, 9 September 2026. Brent $100.07 by 07:21 GMT. Plus $2.15. Plus 2.2 percent. First clear of $100 since 24 July. WTI $94.73. Plus $1.70. Plus 1.83 percent. This Extra will not add a fifth print. It will not write $101. It will not write an all-time high. July 24 is the last-clear date Reuters named. That is the comparison, not a peak table.

Reuters said Brent has risen by a quarter since early last month as hopes fade for a permanent resolution of the six-month-old U.S.–Iran conflict. That 25 percent is their run-up line, not a new dollar print. Keep it attributed. Do not turn it into a $125 forecast.

Why the tape ran, as Reuters framed it: intensifying conflict in the Middle East, concern about oil flows. This week, attacks by Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi energy facilities set oil installations ablaze. That Houthi/Saudi fire file is already a separate Extra on this desk. This money Extra does not reprint casualty counts from Jazan. It notes, as Reuters did, that those hits threaten a wider supply scare, including crude on the Red Sea as an alternative to Hormuz.

Hormuz is already tight. Reuters carried Rystad Energy’s Claudio Galimberti: in the week before fighting resumed on 30 August, roughly 8 million to 9 million barrels per day had flowed through Hormuz; more recently it had fallen below 2 million bpd. That is Rystad via Reuters, not a strait-closed claim from this desk. A growing number of banks — Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, HSBC — have raised crude-price forecasts in recent days, Reuters said. Raised forecasts are not a print. They are not $100.07.

What this correction will not do: keep the old line “this Extra does not print $100” now that Reuters has printed $100.07. Invent a peak of $100.19 or any other cent not on the 07:21 wrap used here. Call a central-bank hike. Tell a driver the pump tomorrow. AAA’s Labor Day U.S. regular near $4.15 a gallon stays a separate money-strip fact, not a Brent print.

Nailed down, 9 September 2026, 07:21 GMT. CONFIRMED: Brent $100.07 (+$2.15 / +2.2%); first through $100 since 24 July; WTI $94.73 (+$1.70 / +1.83%). Earlier same-day Reuters $99.33 at 02:12 GMT is history on this slug, not a rival. Source: Reuters oil wrap, 9 September 2026. Path unchanged: /money/brent-leans-on-99. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent peaks.

FILE_UPDATED. Slug kept: /money/brent-leans-on-99. Reuters, 9 September 2026: Brent $100.07 by 07:21 GMT, +$2.15 / +2.2%; first clear of $100 since 24 July; WTI $94.73. www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-jumps-1-early-trade-after-iran-launches-missiles-jordan-2026-09-09/ and Reuters Singapore wrap as carried (Nikkei/MarketScreener). Graphic retained: NTH MERIDIAN DESK. No invented peaks. No X post.