The widening differential between the prices of Brent crude and the traditional US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), is increasingly hard to justify in terms of the fundamentals of the oil market. This may well be another example of how speculative pressures and investment flows can drive commodity prices away from sustainable levels for surprisingly long periods of time.
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