Commodities

The powerful young prince overseeing Saudi Arabia's economy unveiled ambitious plans on Monday aimed at ending the kingdom's "addiction" to oil and transforming it into a global investment power.

The average price of gasoline has jumped by 8 cents over the past three weeks to $2.18 a gallon for regular grade.

Oil prices rose on Friday and notched their third straight week of gains as market sentiment turned more upbeat amid signs a persistent global supply glut may be easing.

With first-quarter earnings season well underway, Scott Martin, United Advisors chief market strategist, said investors should exercise caution when looking for opportunities to get into the market.

Oil prices slid on Thursday, reversing early gains as a rebounding dollar weighed on commodities denominated in the U.S. currency.

A prolonged slump in global oil prices has forced booming U.S. drillers to take a step back, but production in the Gulf of Mexico continues to climb.

Precious metals have been surging this year, with the markets focused on the rise in gold as the U.S. dollar depreciates and market volatility sent traders to the safe-haven.

A meeting among some of the world's biggest oil producers failed to end with an agreement to freeze production, as many analysts expected. Yet, oil prices saw only moderate declines Monday. What gives?

Stocks closed higher despite disappointment from Doha on Sunday, with the Dow crossing the 18000 mark for the first time since last summer.

Following a scheduled meeting in the deserts of Doha, Qatar on Sunday, global oil markets will have more clarity about where some of the world’s biggest producers stand on their willingness to help ease the global supply glut that’s plagued the market for nearly two years.

Oil futures pared some of their losses after data from Baker Hughes showed that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for crude fell by 3 to 351 as of Friday.

CME Group Inc will shutter its New York trading floor at year's end due to low volume, closing options pits for metals and oil a year after most futures pits met their end.

The bankruptcy of Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private coal producer, puts an exclamation point on the industry’s struggles and their ripple effect.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest privately owned coal producer, filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in the wake of a sharp fall in coal prices that left it unable to service a recent debt-fueled expansion into Australia.

China's exports in March returned to growth for the first time in nine months, adding to further signs of stabilization in the world's second-largest economy that cheered regional investors.

Oil prices jumped on Tuesday, but some in the market say there could be a downside risk to a possible production freeze on the horizon.

No. 3 U.S. railroad CSX Corp said on Tuesday that lower freight, in particular a 31 percent drop in coal volumes, had hurt its first-quarter profit and still expected coal to weigh on earnings throughout 2016.

A woman alleging gender bias at a prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified that she couldn't turn back the advances of a male co-worker with whom she'd later have an affair because of her injuries from an accident on a trip to Germany.

Jurors in a sex discrimination trial against one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms will hear a second day of testimony from the woman behind the high-profile gender bias lawsuit.

The Federal Reserve is slated to release minutes of last month's meeting today, clarifying the central bank's decision to stand pat on interest rates.