Entries by Arctic Leaf

Oil futures gain, snap five-day losing streak

Crude-oil futures rose Monday, recouping some of their steep losses last week and notching their largest one-day percentage increase in nearly two weeks. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in September CLU4 -0.91%   ended at $98.29 a barrel, up 41 cents, or 0.4%. That broke a five-session losing streak.

Winston, what would you do concerning natural gas?

Where is Churchill when we need him? How many psychobabble articles and cable commentary about Putin and Russia could we have done without by just remembering good old Winnie’s marvelous, insightful quote in 1939? It’s as near perfection as we are going to get in trying to understand Mr. Putin and Russia. Both are “riddle[s] […]