crude oil prices

crude oil prices Articles

CIA World FactbookThe stock market may have tanked on Wednesday, but geopolitical risk from Yemen was one of the excuses that was used for the rally in oil on this day. It may simply have been an...
U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 8.17 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory of 466.7 million barrels.
Common sense would say that short sellers have made huge bets and boatloads of money as the stocks and commodities around the oil patch have suffered.
Famed activist investor Carl Icahn increased his stake in Chesapeake Energy to 11% after the company announced more cuts to its 2015 capital spending budget.
Due to falling energy prices, one of the hoped-for trends in the sector has been mergers and acquisitions. The hope had been that Whiting Petroleum would be the first serious buyout.
In the months after everyone jumped ship on the energy sector due to falling oil prices, independent research firm Argus thinks it might be time to get back on board.
The forecasts of a further collapse of oil prices, so loud in February, have returned. The problem with oil price predictions is that they may include scores of factors.
In the week ended March 20, the number of rigs drilling for oil in the United States totaled 825, compared with 866 in the prior week and 1,473 a year ago.
When the world’s largest offshore driller sneezes, the entire industry gets a cold. That is what happened Thursday.
The of Nordic American Tankers suggested in an open letter to shareholders that the company's dividend is likely to rise.
Willbros Group shares plunged after it announced that will be filing its 2014 annual report late.
U.S. commercial crude inventory was at its 10th consecutive week of a higher total than at any time in at least 80 years.
With the dollar rallying and with economic numbers slowing, what are the odds that gold takes a dive like oil did? Also, how correlated should the two assets be today versus in the past?
Argentina has had its share of financial issues, but now we have seen a serious sentiment change for Argentina out of the team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The EIA has noted for nine weeks running that inventories have reached an 80-year high. But are the tanks full?