Futures & Commodities

Oil and gas prices gained Thursday as the slow-moving Hurricane Sally neared the Mississippi coastline.

Banning natural gas and oil development on public lands and waters would cost Americans approximately 1 million jobs by 2022 and force the U.S. to import significantly more foreign oil, a top oil and natural gas industry group claimed in a new analysis on Wednesday.

Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have been very clear – for years -- on their policy positions when it comes to energy.

Oil prices were sharply lower Tuesday as traders priced in the upcoming drop in demand.

TOKYO  - U.S. stock futures and Asian shares regained some footing on Tuesday following a small bounce in European shares as investors looked to whether high-flying U.S. tech shares could recover from their recent rout.

Oil and gas prices were lower after Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm.

The 2020 gold rush in markets is starting to unnerve even some longtime fans of precious metals.

CME Group raised margin requirements for gold and silver after their sharpest one-day selloff in five months.

A Biden win in the 2020 election and the impending push for clean energy would boost silver prices, according to Bank of America.

Brent crude is a global benchmark for oil prices.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil is a global benchmark for oil prices.

Gold prices will put in a top near $2,000 an ounce, according to J.P. Morgan.

Safe-haven assets typically perform well when riskier assets don't.

The less-valuable metal climbed 20 percent over the past week to $23 an ounce, a gain of more than 94 percent from its bottom below $12 in March

Gold prices surged to record highs on Thursday as worries the unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus dished out in the wake of COVID-19 will cause inflation.

Gold prices, which topped $1,800 an ounce on Wednesday morning, haven't closed above that level in almost nine years.

Quadruple witching is a market event that could bring increased volume and volatility.

“Fears about a resurgence of the coronavirus are taking a backseat to continued signs of rapidly improving demand,” says Phil Flynn, a Chicago-based senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil topped $40 per barrel for the first time since March after OPEC and its allies extended historic production cuts through July.

The 23-member OPEC and its partners, led by Russia, are expected to approve an extension Saturday of the historic production cuts reached in April.