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Published: October 31, 2026 by AJ Tiarsmith
Wright told CNBC the diesel squeeze is a global problem. EIA data back him: U.S. distillate stocks are the lowest for mid-October since weekly records began in 1982, though measured in days of supply, 2022 was a bit tighter.
Published: October 30, 2026 by AJ Tiarsmith
Trump greeted a tanker of Venezuelan crude in Corpus Christi on Oct. 27. EIA data show the cargo equals about 68 minutes of U.S. oil use, and Venezuelan oil was already arriving at 571,000 barrels a day.
In the prices drivers pay, Bianco is right: every fall reading this year beat the old record of $3.91 from 2022. Adjusted for inflation, seven falls since 2004 cost more, led by 2012 and 2008.
Updated: October 27, 2026 by AJ Tiarsmith
Builder moods just cratered to levels not seen since 2012, and the incentives flooding the market look generous until you do the math on who actually benefits from them.
Updated: October 27, 2026 by Joel South
Gasoline costs more than it did a month ago, small business owners are standing still instead of expanding, and nearly a third raised prices in September. Three data sets covering fuel, firms, and household finances each tell a piece of the same story.
Updated: October 28, 2026 by Joel South
A futures trader looked at this year's massive energy rally and rejected the explanation almost everyone accepted. The real driver has nothing to do with AI, data centers, or electricity demand, and it points to a completely different part of the sector.
Brent crude has tumbled from its September peak, yet fuel prices refuse to follow. Energy Aspects founder Amrita Sen says the benchmark price you see quoted is hiding a cost that dwarfs what the crude market itself is doing.
Updated: October 28, 2026 by AJ Tiarsmith
The AI buildout needs electricians and pipefitters by the thousands, and the head of North America's Building Trades Unions says the workforce can scale to meet it. The obstacle is not a shortage of workers but a decision companies have not made yet.
Qatar's prime minister admitted publicly that no one has a master strategy to end the conflict disrupting the strait that carries a significant share of global LNG, and that admission carries a price tag that reaches household energy bills far from the Gulf.
Oil majors once led solar innovation, then walked away. A solar expert's account of what happened next, and who actually controls electricity prices now, cuts against almost everything conventional wisdom assumes.
Updated: October 28, 2026 by Eric Bleeker
Saudi Arabia's oil safety net just took two hits from two different directions at once, and the fallout now reaches from global energy markets all the way to a pharaonic tourism project in the desert that the kingdom is betting its economic future on.
Updated: October 28, 2026 by Andrew Clemente
Fresh U.S. strikes near the Strait of Hormuz just pushed oil above $90, but the number that actually determines where crude goes next has nothing to do with the military headlines. Here is what investors and retirees should be watching instead.
Updated: October 28, 2026 by Mike Barrington
U.S. strikes near the Strait of Hormuz sent crude surging and lifted Chevron and Exxon shares in early trading, but the same headlines that drove oil above $85 could unwind the gains just as fast.
Canadian Solar heads into its Aug. 27 earnings report with shares sitting 40% below where they started the year, and the answer hinges on whether a booming storage business can finally overpower the forces dragging the stock down.
A $1.55 billion financing package failed to stop USA Rare Earth from sliding 5% while smaller, less-funded peers in critical minerals fell even harder. The reasons behind that disconnect matter far more than Monday's closing prices.
The gap between crude oil prices and diesel prices just shattered a record, and it is creating a windfall for a small group of refiners while raising an uncomfortable question about how long that advantage can last.
A multi-year outage at Qatar's LNG facilities is reshaping global energy markets in ways that stretch far beyond a temporary supply scramble, and five U.S. energy stocks stand to gain in very different ways depending on how much risk investors can stomach.
