Why Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia is unlikely to contribute much to oil’s price decline

President Joe Biden is in the Middle East late this week and the pressure is on for the U.S. to look to Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, for more barrels of oil. Limits to oil productio...

Commodity price declines may shape Fed’s rate-hike path, says economist

A significant downturn in commodity prices could give the Federal Reserve cover to change its aggressive pace of planned interest rate hikes, according to a report from Capital Economics.   The centra...

U.S. oil just tumbled below $100 a barrel — What that says about recession fears and tight crude supplies

Concerns about a recession and a drop in energy demand led to a drop in U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude-oil prices below the $100-a-barrel mark on Tuesday for the first time in months. Th...

Oil prices could go ‘parabolic,’ putting global economy in ‘critical situation,’ says Trafigura chief

“‘We have got a critical situation. I really think we have a problem for the next six months. … [O]nce it gets to these parabolic states, markets can move and they can spike quite a lot.’” — Jeremy We...