Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery...
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose $1.22 to $81.80 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for September delivery rose 57 cents to $85.56 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline for August delivery fell 3 cents $2.93 a gallon. August heating oilrose 3 cents to $2.99 a gallon. September natural gas fell 1 cent to $2.63 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Oil major Chevron has earmarked more than 6,000 well locations...
Oil major Chevron has earmarked more than 6,000 well locations that it says offer sufficient capacity to enable it to substantially increase its Permian production from its current level of 770,000 barrels of oil per day."Longer term, we've identified well over 6000 economic net well locations that support a plateau greater than 1 million barrels per day through the end of next decade," says chief executive Mike Wirth.
U.S. stocks finish higher as S&P 500, Nasdaq climb for 5th straight month
U.S. stocks finished higher on Monday, while the S&P 500...
U.S. stocks finished higher on Monday, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite capped off July by recording their fifth-straight month in the green — the longest winning streak in roughly two years for both indexes.
The S&P 500SPX gained 6.92 points, or 0.2%, to finish Monday at 4,589.15, according to preliminary closing data from FactSet. For the month of July, the large-cap index increased by 3%. The Nasdaq CompositeCOMP gained 29.37 points, or 0.2%, to 14,346.02, bringing its July advance to 2.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Averagerose by DJIA 100.57 points, or 0.3%, to 35,559.86, notching a 4.8% increase for the month. In another notable move, The S&P 500 Information Technology Sectorgained 2.4% in July to rise for the 7th straight month, the longest such streak since August 2014.
Drones hit buildings in Moscow on Sunday in a series of attacks Russia blamed on Ukraine. ...
Drones hit buildings in Moscow on Sunday in a series of attacks Russia blamed on Ukraine. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said, “The war is gradually returning to Russia’s territory.”
X (formerly Twitter) reinstated Kanye West’s account after a nearly eight-month suspension.
Sizzling temps in the US Southwest are set to ease this week with the arrival of monsoon rains.
American swimmer Katie Ledecky broke Michael Phelps’s record with her 16th individual gold medal at the world championships.
“A female microscopic roundworm that spent the last 46,000 years in suspended animation deep in the Siberian permafrost was revived and started having babies in a laboratory dish,” the Washington Post reports.