When investors trade futures contracts for oil, iron and wheat, they’re helping to establish the market prices for these key commodities. Commodities prices can fluctuate dramatically over short ...

Contango occurs in oversupplied markets, while backwardation reflects undersupplied or tight markets. Since 1985, the crude oil market has been in contango – when near-term prices are lower than ...

The oil market is slipping into a state known as contango. And while that may sound vaguely dance-inspiring, history suggests the shift isn’t a positive sign for crude prices. Contango is trader lingo ...

Oil prices finished lower on Wednesday as uncertainty continued to surround President Donald Trump’s policy moves in the energy sector. Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra suggests the “potential for ...

Traders use various technical indicators to predict how markets and individual stocks will move within the next few days, hours, minutes and seconds. While using one technical indicator is a good ...

The oil market is in backwardation: a phenomenon where futures with near-term deliveries are marketed at a premium over longer-dated contracts. Market watchers spoke to CNBC about what the ...