The United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) has been the most consequential commodity trade of 2026, and the next 12 months will decide whether that trade survives or unwinds. USO trades near $131…
If you bought the United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) to bet on rising crude prices, the fund is living up to its reputation. USO is up 114% year to date as WTI…
West Texas Intermediate crude started 2026 at $57 a barrel and now trades near $112, a near-doubling driven by Iran-related tensions around the Strait of Hormuz and a sustained geopolitical risk premium…
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve posted back-to-back record drawdowns in mid-May, with 9.92 million barrels released in the week ending May 15 and 8.6 million the week before. Those twin releases brought the…
Joel South If you’ve ever stared at a ticker yielding north of 30% and wondered what the catch was, Credit Suisse X-Links Crude Oil Shares Covered Call ETN (NASDAQ:USOI) is the catch made visible.…
Bloomberg’s Stuart Livingstone-Wallace delivered a line worth pausing on this week. Responding to a question about whether a U.S. naval posture was choking off Iranian crude flows, he told viewers: “We’ve had…
Crude oil cleared $100 a barrel multiple times in April 2026, and the move was not subtle. WTI peaked at nearly $115 in early April; Brent reached about $138 in the same…
In just a few weeks, the Iran War has triggered enormous volatility into the oil markets. With oil futures prices ranging this year between the mid $50s per barrel to over $112,…
Three supertankers slipped through the Strait of Hormuz last Saturday, each carrying up to two million barrels of oil. That trickle is all that passed during the ceasefire window. Before the war…
Credit Suisse X-Links Crude Oil Shares Covered Call ETN (NASDAQ:USOI) gained ~30% year-to-date, while oil surged sharply higher. The gap between those returns is the entire story of what USOI is, what…
Oil has surged 70% in just 26 trading days since the war in Iran began, marking a faster pace than the 2022 Russia/Ukraine energy shock. WTI crude, the U.S. benchmark, has climbed…
Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV | LUV Price Prediction) entered 2026 with its most sweeping operational overhaul in the carrier’s history, only to see shares slide 22% over the past month as a surge…
Oil surged from around $71 to nearly $98 per barrel in under two weeks in early March 2026 as geopolitical tensions in the Persian Gulf tightened supply fears. That kind of move…
Starting on March 4, 2026, Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed and began attacking ships attempting to transit oil and other commodities. The consequences for global oil supply have been immediate…
S&P 500 futures are pointing +0.37% higher ahead of Friday’s open, a modest recovery attempt after the index shed 1.52% on Thursday flirts with $100 a barrel pricing. The session’s tentative optimism…
