Oil

West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, gained 32 percent to $15.29 a barrel after having fallen to an overnight low of $10.26.

CME Group switched its options pricing and valuation model to accommodate negative oil prices.

While some U.S. states have announced plans to begin reopening, others have extended “stay-at-home” orders until at least the middle of May, keeping demand at significantly depressed levels -- and prices low.

Chevron is the last major U.S. oil company to do business in crisis-wracked Venezuela

Oil's collapse is now on the Treasury Dept.'s radar.

Monday's plunge in May-delivery prices was prompted partly by a selloff among traders speculating on oil prices who needed to dump their holdings before the contract's expiration required them to take delivery of the crude.