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54 stories on the Energy beat — every filing on this desk, newest first.
Worried optimism was the prevailing mood Monday at a Dallas Labor Day rally where a few hundred Democrats gathered at Lofty Spaces to assess Senate candidate James Talarico's chances against Republican Ken Paxton. A Senate race, in plain…
The short version: Iran seized an American unmanned submarine, a vessel with no crew operated by remote or automated control, near the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States said the capture was not a serious incident. The two countries…
Oil prices rose on Tuesday after the United States and Iran exchanged strikes over the weekend, pushing Brent crude toward $99 on concern that renewed Middle East hostilities could disrupt regional energy supply. Brent crude is the…
Oil prices rose on Tuesday, continuing a run of gains that followed the United States and Iran trading military strikes over the weekend. Prolonged conflict, for an oil market, is the scenario where hostilities between significant powers…
The prospect of a formal agreement to limit Iran's nuclear activities may be gone. A nuclear deal, in plain terms, is an accord under which a country agrees to constrain its atomic program in return for the easing of international economic…
The push to bring Iran-backed militias under Iraqi state control has hit a public stumbling block. The militias in question are the Popular Mobilization Units, or PMU: state-affiliated arme
An oil deal between the United States and Venezuela places the American government inside a major energy market as a commercial player. State capitalism is the term for that arrangement: a government that participates in markets directly…
American forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers on Saturday near Kharg Island in the Gulf, U.S. Central Command reported. A crude oil carrier is a vessel that moves unrefined petrol
A formal proposal to sharply reduce US Treasury holdings in Norway's $2 trillion oil fund is now before the Ministry of Finance. Treasuries are bonds, meaning debt the US federal government sells to investors to raise money. The fund's…
A diplomatic row at the G20, the forum where the world's twenty largest economies coordinate on trade and financial policy, has become public accusation days before Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected…
Argentina's territorial claim to the Falkland Islands has moved from diplomatic statement to economic threat. President Javier Milei has renewed Argentina's claim to the British overseas territory in the South Atlantic and threatened…
One of baseball's most dominant pitchers just had his worst start of the year, and the debate about his workload is no longer theoretical. A walk rate, the number of free passes a pitcher allows per nine innings pitched, is one way arm…
Oil prices held flat after Iran launched missiles at Kuwait, even as crude had already added more than 7% over the course of the week. "Little changed," in market terms, means a session where the price barely moved in either direction…
Oil prices moved sharply on Wednesday after Iran reportedly struck targets linked to U.S. Gulf allies, following an earlier American attack on Iran. Brent crude, the international benchmark that sets the reference price for oil contracts…
Oil prices climbed to their highest level since July on Tuesday, extending earlier gains after the United States carried out new military strikes against Iran. WTI, short for West Texas Intermediate and the standard benchmark for American…
A data center is a building filled with computer servers that keeps cloud software and artificial intelligence running. Communities across the country have raised alarms over electricity costs, water u
A minority partner holds less than half the ownership stake in a business arrangement. In an oil deal connected to the Trump administration, that position belongs to Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan executive described as controversial…
Organic operational revenue strips out foreign-exchange swings and acquisition effects to show how fast a business is actually growing on its own. For Zoetis Inc. (NYSE: ZTS), that measure turned negative in fiscal Q2 2026, falling 1%…
A cyber attack attributed to Iran-linked hackers knocked a small gas-fired facility offline in the United Kingdom, prompting sec
Crude oil prices pulled back Friday but stayed on course for a second consecutive weekly gain. The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the open ocean through w
Oil has continued to move through the Strait of Hormuz since May, and the U.S. military says it helped make that happen. The strait is a narrow channel of water connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, the passage through which…
Economic pressure means sanctions and financial restrictions designed to cut a government off from international markets and hard currency. Applied to Iran, an oil-producing country, that k
A takeover battle, where multiple buyers compete at the same time to acquire the same company, pushed shares of Spain's Deoleo more than 20% higher on Wednesday morning. Deoleo is the world
A basis point is one-hundredth of one percentage point. On Tuesday, 30-year U.S. Treasury yields added more than one of them, pushing to around 5.322%, just short of the highest reading for that maturity since 2002.
A sell-off in long-term Treasuries is raising borrowing costs, and the pain is landing unevenly. Long-term Treasuries are U.S. government bonds with maturities beyond a decade; when investors sell them, prices fall, yields climb, and those…
America's emergency oil stockpile is being drawn down so fast that it is approaching a point where the underground caverns holding the crude could sustain physical damage. That stockpile is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the federal…
Less than nine months after the United States toppled Caracas's ruling strongman, British energy company BP has been named among the winners of an offshore exploration licence in Venezuela. An offshore licence is government permission to…
Power generated on a customer's own property, before it ever touches a utility company's grid, is being named one of the top energy plays for the remainder of the year. The industry term for this is "behind-the-me
Oil arriving at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Sidi Kerir has more than doubled, and most of it is Saudi crude. Shipping data firm Kpler tracked the change, showing that Saudi Arabia is routing barrels through a pipeline crossing Egyptian…
Global oil prices climbed on Wednesday after deadly attacks on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman amplified concerns about the security of international shipping routes. A shipping route
Reading the market, meaning tracking the collective mood of buyers and sellers across asset classes, sounds like a job for professional analysts with terminal access and hours to spare. CNBC host Jim Cramer says three data points do the…
U.S. crude oil climbed above $83 a barrel after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until its conditions are satisfied. The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway connecting the Persian G
Oil climbed to $80 a barrel for U.S. crude, a move driven by doubt over whether two governments can agree to keep a narrow waterway open. That waterway is the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea and serves…
Oil prices rose as traders parsed competing signals from the United States and Iran over whether a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz is actually taking shape. The strait is the narrow water
The word "direct" is doing heavy lifting in Tehran. Iran's foreign minister said his country is not engaged in direct talks with the United States about the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of…
A natural gas utility's first-half results came in above internal targets, and management is now signaling confidence the year will finish at the higher end of its forecast. Earnings per share, the portion of a company's profit allocated…
Two energy infrastructure funds with nearly identical sector bets have produced meaningfully different long-term returns, and the spread points toward one clear pick. An exchange-traded fun
Nine Republican candidates competed for attention Saturday at a Florence County forum, one of the last public gatherings before South Carolina's Aug. 11 special Senate primary. The seat belo
A Fox News poll now shows Democrat James Talarico holding a slim lead over Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, 51 percent to 48 percent. That gap falls within the margin of error, meaning the poll's statistical uncertainty is…
Oil prices were little changed Tuesday as negotiations continued over how to manage vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage at the mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a large share of the world's seaborne crude…
A shakeout, meaning a period when weaker competitors fail and exit the market, is coming for the American electric-vehicle sector. That is the warning from the new chief executive of Lucid, the EV manufacturer, who argues the United States…
Stock futures climbed Tuesday as oil prices fell, with the move tied to expectations that the United States and Iran are close to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The strait is a narrow shipping channel at the entrance to the Persian…
A $4 billion sale of a biogas operation, the term for a business that captures methane from organic waste and injects it into gas pipelines as a low-carbon alternative to conventional natural gas, signal
Russia is adding ships to what traders call a shadow fleet, a collection of tankers that operate outside Western insurance networks and ownership registries, to keep liquefied natural gas moving after the European Union tightens sanctions…
Democratic senators are pressing five federal agencies for answers about whether the Trump and Lutnick families hold personal financial interests in critical mineral agreements. Critical minerals are raw materials governments classify as…
A crude-oil benchmark is a reference price that markets use to value every barrel traded across the world. Abu Dhabi's state energy company, Adnoc, had spent years trying to build one of its own, anchored to its flagship Murban grade. The…
Oil prices pulled back after traffic through the Strait of Hormuz began recovering in the wake of U.S.-Iran military strikes earlier this week. The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow waterway thr
Oil prices climbed after Iran threatened to respond to the latest United States military strikes, lifting both of the world's major crude benchmarks. Brent crude futures, the contract that sets the international price reference for oil…
Oil prices extended their losses on Monday after a pause in U.S.-Iran hostilities gave markets a reason to price in a calmer near-term outlook. De-escalation, the pulling back from active military confrontation, tends to reduce the risk…
Oil sales, meaning the dollar value of petroleum transactions conducted by whoever holds authority over a country's export pipeline, have crossed $13 billion for the United States since Washington took command of Venezuela's energy…
Texas pulled in more than $5 billion in adjusted gross income from people moving across state lines, according to IRS migration data analyzed by the Tax Foundation. Adjusted gross income, the portion of a taxpayer's earnings that the…
More than 60 commercial ships have been struck in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman since March 1. A commercial vessel is any ship carrying cargo or fuel for profit rather than military purposes. The attacks form…
Oil fell roughly 3% on Friday after reports surfaced that Pakistan is pushing for new diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran, with China providing backing for that effort. The daily decline is a price correction: a partial…
Green energy is pulling in capital that once leaned toward oil. With the war involving Iran continuing to weigh on oil demand and the Middle East conflict showing no clear end