Wall Street Journal | Oil Prices Jump as Fundamentals Outweigh Saudi Reshuffle Wall Street Journal Oil prices were higher on Monday, boosted by strong crude imports from China and wildfires in Canada, amid market uncertainty generated by the removal of Saudi Arabia's long-serving oil minister Ali al-Naimi. The global cocktail of factors helped push ... Al-Naimi exit was about Saudi reform, not its oil policy: Analysts Saudi Minister Has Task of Easing Dependence on Oil We could be in for an even wilder ride on oil prices now that a millennial Saudi prince is in charge |