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WTI at $90.68 (+10.3% in a week) and 10Y yields at 4.80% (+3% in a week) are hitting simultaneously. The consensus buys XLE broadly. The real trade is long financially-disciplined US mid-cap E&P companies with unhedged barrels and net-cash balance sheets — they capture the full oil upside while rising rates don't hurt them and may actually accelerate cash returns to shareholders.

Tanker attacks push Brent toward $100, but the real beneficiary isn't integrated majors or refiners — it's US onshore mid-cap E&Ps. Their costs are fixed, their output is geopolitically insulated, and WTI is already up 11% on the week. Long US mid-cap shale E&P into sustained Middle East tension.