crude oil

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Front-month WTI crude oil futures are 3.1% higher at $98.37 per barrel; front-month Brent crude oil futures are 3.2% higher at $104.50 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Brent crude oil started the year at $62 a barrel, went for $124 at the end of April, and was recently hovering just over $100.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

While traders are waiting for Iran’s response to the U.S. proposal, investors are “seemingly confident that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen soon one way or another, for otherwise crude oil would not have fallen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Supply of distillates, which are products refined from crude oil and include diesel, has reached a roughly 20-year low at 102.3 million barrels in Wednesday’s EIA report, Yawger said.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

This time I've sprayed my white-blond strands a deep black, as if I'd dipped them in crude oil.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu