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CNBC's Bertha Coombs discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. After the dollar slipped, oil and gasoline futures climbed a bit. Nat gas was down on a bigger-than-expected build. A mixed picture in the metals markets, as well.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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Shafik Gabr, ARTOC Group chairman & managing director, discusses whether now is the time to invest in the Middle East.
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For a variety of reasons there still exist many untapped oil fields in the world. Those reasons may be political, technological, geological, or economical; but as time goes on they are being resolved to the extent that some huge fields are now becoming available for exploration and production.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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China’s $15.1 billion bid to acquire Canada’s Nexen oil company threatens to turn China into an owner rather just a major buyer of Canadian oil, and prompts a surge in nationalist rhetoric that is attempting, misguidedly, to bring up the question of sovereignty.
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CNBC's Bertha Coombs discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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Oil prices staged a rally on Wednesday partly due to the escalating turmoil in the Middle East, and analysts who expect the strife to worsen are recommending oil stocks as “a great place to be.”
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CNBC's Courtney Reagan discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks ahead to where oil and precious metals are likely headed next week.
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The cost of generating electricity by wind and solar is falling rapidly, ,and however hard Big Oil and Big Gas try to suppress government funding and tax breaks for renewables, they are doomed to lose, and in only about 4 years.
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A new 590-foot yacht under construction in Germany will be the world's largest. But the owner's identity remains a mystery.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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"We say that common sense does not dictate that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz as long as it makes use of it," says one high-ranking Iranian naval officer.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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"If you've got a real scramble for the dollar, we could hit a very thin and vulnerable market," says Art Cashin, UBS, weighing in on the factors impacting today's trading action.
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Argentina is making few friends in the fossil fuels industry these days. Sam Logan, owner of Southern Pulse, speaks to Oilprice.com about the politics of populism behind Argentina’s energy aggression.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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"Rebel forces in Syria are a lot stronger than they used to be they are a critical threat to the regime for the first time I would say in the whole conflict, but Assad is still not gone yet and his forces still have strength in Damascus, Aleppo and the North, this isn't the end of the story but the regimes pillars are fracturing," Ayham Kamel, Middle East analyst at Eurasia Group, told CNBC.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks ahead to where oil and precious metals are likely headed next week.
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Dan Yergin, IHS Vice chairman, discusses the outlook on oil, amid rising tensions in the Middle East; growing demand from China; and increased production levels from the U.S.