Financial TimesUS crude oil price hits highest level in 7 monthsFinancial TimesUS crude oil bounced to the highest level in seven months on Tuesday, as traders foresaw a decline in bloated inventories in the world's biggest petroleum consumer. Nymex Ju …

FortuneWells Fargo Cuts Its Oil RiskWall Street Journal (blog)That is when, twice a year, banks rethink the lines of credit that they have extended to oil drillers, weighing factors like the value of collateral. So far this spring, Wells has reduced the cr …

Wall Street JournalCanada's Banks Continue to Face Oil-Price FalloutWall Street JournalCanada's biggest banks begin reporting their fiscal second-quarter earnings this week and lower oil prices are expected to pressure results. Although oil prices …

CNBCUS oil closes lower at $38.28; Iran unlikely to freeze outputCNBCOil prices fell on Tuesday, reflecting growing concerns that a two-month rally may be fading, as supply looked set to keep rising and there appeared to be little immediate prospect of dem …

CNBCOil prices fall; Iran unlikely to freeze outputCNBC"Verbal intervention, which has obviously helped the market greatly over the past two months, combined with a production slowdown in the U.S., has probably taken (oil) as far as it can. Now the ma …

New York TimesFalling Oil Prices Bring End to Rally for the MarketNew York TimesThe Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, a broad measure of the stock market, stayed in the red. Oil prices fell. Trading was relatively quiet ahead of the Easter holiday …

OilPrice.comChina And India Rewrite The Rules Of The Oil And Gas GameOilPrice.comAs the current oil price crisis leads to some game-changing upheavals in the global energy market, Asia's two powerhouses, China and India, are taking advantage of the sup …

Wall Street Journal (subscription) (blog)Oil Mystery Solved? Interest-Rate Effect Upends Usual Growth BenefitWall Street Journal (subscription) (blog)One of the economy's big puzzles is why lower oil prices have done so little to help economic growth. …

Wall Street Journal (subscription)Coming to the Oil Patch: Bad Loans to Outnumber the GoodWall Street Journal (subscription)Bad loans are likely to outnumber good ones soon in the U.S. oil patch, an indication of the pressure on energy companies and their …

FuelFix (blog)Oil Prices Continue To Tumble As Supply Glut Fears ReturnOilPrice.comAll the while, long positions (blue) have not done a great deal. Short positions have been slashed in the last month, encouraging oil prices to rally a euphoric 50 percent. …