Crude Oil

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has officially dismissed speculation that the U.S. government will short oil futures to suppress surging energy prices, opting instead for a temporary easing of sanctions on stranded Russian crude to combat the supply shock stemming from the Iran-U.S. conflict....

Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are poised to break below their 200-day moving averages for the first time since March 2025. Meanwhile, the Brent-WTI crude spread blew out to $17 per barrel early Thursday — the widest since April 2020 when WTI went negative — as Israel’s strike on Iran...

Ed Yardeni is downplaying the threat of the current energy spike, arguing that structural shifts and efficiency gains have rendered the U.S. economy resilient against oil-driven recessions. Decoupling Growth From Energy Yardeni contends that the correlation between oil spikes and economic downturns...

Since the start of the war in Iran, investors have focused almost exclusively on crude oil benchmarks. Yet the most important shock in energy markets may be happening elsewhere — in refined fuels like diesel, where prices and refining margins are now rising far faster than crude. The national...

Leading cryptocurrencies rallied alongside stocks on Monday amid escalating geopolitical tensions over Strait of Hormuz oil shipments. Cryptocurrency 24-Hour Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 9:35 p.m. ET) Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) +4.71% $75,983.09 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)    ...

Oil prices remained elevated on Monday as President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran’s crude export facilities on Kharg Island and the war heads toward its third week, with the Strait of Hormuz still closed. The Kalshi prediction market crowd has one blunt question on the table: Does...

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has slammed the President Donald Trump administration as gasoline prices across the U.S. continue to surge. ‘Thanks To President Trump,’ Says Gavin Newsom In a post on the social media platform X on Sunday, Newsom's official press office handle...

Amid escalating tensions in the global oil market due to the ongoing Iran war, recent estimates from JPMorgan show that the strategic oil reserve release will only make a small dent in the crude oil supply shock. Strategic Reserves Not Enough The ongoing oil crisis cannot be alleviated by strategic...

As Brent crude prices surpass $100 per barrel due to the ongoing Iran war, The Future Fund LLC's Managing Partner, Gary Black, laid out the math about the potential impact on Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) sales and stock. Will Tesla Benefit From Rising Crude Oil Prices? Black explained in a post on X...

The Donald Trump administration has issued a temporary authorization for countries to purchase Russian oil currently “stranded at sea,” a move designed to stabilize global energy markets as tensions from the Iran-U.S. war push Brent crude prices past $100 per barrel. Strategic Waiver...

The Iran war is likely to reshuffle the earnings landscape for Corporate America in 2026. While Nvidia dominated 2024 and Micron Technology was among the leading performers of 2025, a sustained military conflict in the Middle East could trigger a windfall of an entirely different kind: a historic...

President Donald Trump offered a strikingly optimistic read on soaring crude prices — framing higher oil as a revenue source for the United States. But with equity markets tumbling, the VIX spiking above 26, and Goldman Sachs warning of $110 Brent in a disruption scenario, financial markets...

The U.S.-Iran war has delivered what Goldman Sachs now sees as the largest oil supply shock on record. Persian Gulf exports, as tracked by vessel count data, have fallen to roughly 3% of normal levels at the Strait of Hormuz — a disruption that dwarfs even the 1973 OPEC embargo and the 1990 Gulf...

BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) CEO Larry Fink expressed his belief that the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict will not have lasting economic consequences, even as oil prices continue to rise. During his appearance on Fox News’ “Special Report” on Wednesday, Fink dismissed...

The Iran-U.S. war has likely triggered the conditions for a full refiner earnings supercycle. After Wednesday’s International Energy Agency announcement that its 32 member nations would release 400 million barrels of emergency strategic reserves — the largest coordinated release in the IEA...