At 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $112.42 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a gain of 73 cents compared with yesterday morning and around $34 higher than the price one year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of…
President Trump’s meandering speech on the Iran war late Wednesday — in which he paired promises of a swift exit with new threats of escalated bombing and denied responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz — did little to assuage U.S. allies and world markets concerned about the conflict’s ongoing disruptions to the global oil supply….
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As of 8:15 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil is trading at $102.47 per barrel, based on the Brent benchmark we’ll explain in a bit. That’s $1.03 above yesterday morning’s level and $29.44 higher than where it stood a year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $101.44 +1.01% Price of oil…
Wall Street is bracing for a Monday deadline that President Donald Trump set for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while the global economy reels from an energy crisis that shows little signs of abating. Futures tied to the Dow Jones industrial average fell 78 points, or 0.17%. S&P 500 futures were down 0.25%, and Nasdaq futures lost…
In 2020, Covid shut down global supply chains and sent inflation surging. In 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a global energy and food price shock. U.S. tariff policies in 2025 disrupted global trade and helped to stall a long-awaited retreat in domestic inflation. Now, in 2026, we have war in the Persian Gulf. Commerce…
At 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $107.40 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a drop of $6.31 compared with yesterday morning and around $35 higher than the price one year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil…
Iranian attacks on oil and gas facilities around the Persian Gulf on Thursday posed new threats to global energy supplies, as President Trump rebuked Israel for striking a key Iranian gas field, and other nations voiced growing fears that the conflict was escalating. Saudi Arabia said it might respond with force if Iran continues to…
MEXICO CITY — For more than six decades, communist Cuba thwarted every destabilizing measure Washington aimed its way — assassination plots, a trade embargo, sabotage, travel bans and, most notoriously, the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, when Fidel Castro’s revolution was still young and the Cold War raging. Now, many are wondering: Is the death knell…
Iran is signaling that the Strait of Hormuz isn’t totally closed and that it wields the power to choose who may pass, as the U.S. military has yet to re-establish free navigation through the narrow waterway. Oil prices have soared as Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf have created a de facto blockade…