3 Investing Lessons From a Year of Declining Oil PricesMotley FoolYou may not have noticed it, but it's now been a little more than a year since oil prices started their decline from more than $100 per barrel to the $40-$50 range, where oil is trading …

UPDATE 1-Russian finance ministry proposes move to raise tax on oil extraction ...ReutersRIA said the oil tax proposal would involve changing the method used to calculate a so-called cut-off price of $15 per barrel that determines what proportion of oil co …

Wall Street JournalOil Majors' Downstream Outlook Lacks RefinementWall Street JournalBrent crude is hovering around $50 a barrel. But in other ways for Europe's oil and gas majors, this is probably as good as it gets. Refining margins have soared i …

CNBCOil Futures Fall In European TradeWall Street JournalA global oversupply of the commodity, coupled with tepid demand, has driven oil down more than 50% since last summer. In January alone, Nymex WTI lost 9.4% and has been down for seven consecutive mon …

European shares knocked as oil slide hits earningsMoneyweb.co.zaWeak corporate updates pegged back European shares on Thursday, as the effects of a rout in oil prices knocked back heavyweight energy firms. Some traders said the Federal Reserve's statem …

CNNMoneyWhat Saudi King Abdullah's death could mean for oil pricesVoxThe key question on everyone's mind is whether Saudi Arabia might alter its controversial policy of maintaining oil output even as the rest of the world is oversupplied with crude …

Wall Street JournalOil Slides on ECB's Easing, Storage BuildWall Street JournalU.S. oil for March delivery recently fell 47 cents, or 1%, to $47.31 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down from about $48.50 a barrel from before the announceme …

Wall Street JournalOil Prices Slide as Supplies GrowWall Street JournalU.S. crude oil for March delivery fell $1.30, or 2.7%, to $46.48 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent, the global benchmark, fell 67 cents, or 1.4%, to $48.36 a barrel on …

MarketWatchOil fluctuates ahead of ECB meeting, inventory dataMarketWatchIn the short term, a decision by the ECB to move ahead with its bond-purchase program, known as quantitative easing or QE, will further weaken the euro and make dollar-denominated com …

Wall Street JournalOil Rallies Ahead of ECB Meeting, Oil DataWall Street JournalThe Frankfurt-based ECB is expected to launch its own quantitative easing program in an effort to revive the eurozone economy which could increase demand for commodities. The U …