Alex Longley

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An oil tanker is being pictured in the Persian Gulf near the seaport city of Bushehr, in Bushehr Province, southern Iran, on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Shipping on high alert in Mideast after U.S. strikes on Iran

By Alex Longley, Viktoria Dendrinou, and others

An oil tanker sits in the ocean

Oil tankers rocked by mystery blasts after trips to Russia

By Alex Longley and Bloomberg

oil rigs at sunset

Oil bets are most bullish in two years as Mideast tension flares

By Alex Longley, David Marino, and others

oil tanker at sea

Oil ‘tourists’ pile into market amid biggest rally in two years

By Devika Krishna Kumar, Alex Longley, and others

rows of gold bars

Gold, copper and oil prices fall as market contagion spreads—’It’s just widespread panic’

By Mark Burton, Alex Longley, and others

Jim Ratcliffe at Old Trafford, home of Manchester United.

Brexiter and British billionaire, Jim Ratcliffe says Europe’s chemical industry is ‘finished’ and can’t compete with the U.S.

By Francine Lacqua, Rachel Graham, and others

HOUSTON, TEXAS – AUGUST 28: In an aerial view, oil storage tanks near the Valero Houston refinery are seen on August 28, 2023 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Supply shocks are threatening to push oil to $100 per barrel ahead of the U.S. summer driving season—and complicating rate-cut deliberations

By Lucia Kassai, Sharon Cho, and others

Cargo ships in the Panama Canal

Ships are bidding millions of dollars to skip the line at the Panama Canal

By Alex Longley and Bloomberg

A view of the Aramco oil refinery in Saudi Arabia, 1990. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia is squeezing the oil market just as consumption surges: ‘The Fed may have to react’

By Grant Smith, Sarah Chen, and others

Dancers perform with a costume dragon during Lunar New Year festivities.

China is gearing up for Lunar New Year celebrations and it’s a big deal for global oil prices

By Julia Fanzeres, Alex Longley, and others

Photo of a gas station

A refinery worker strike in France is choking off diesel supply amid Europe’s deepening energy crisis

By Rachel Graham, Alex Longley, and others

Vladimir Putin

The price of oil is over $90 a barrel again after Russia and the oil cartel chose to cut production in October

By Alex Longley and Bloomberg

Oil pumpjacks

Oil hits its lowest price since March as soaring U.S. inflation inspires fear of bigger interest rate hikes

By Alex Longley and Bloomberg

Signage with fuel prices outside a Chevron gas station

Why oil has suddenly dipped back down below $100

By Alex Longley and Bloomberg

A Shell Oil tanker truck moves down a street

‘Does it smell like Ukrainian blood?’ Shell drops Russia oil supply after coming under fire for buying it on the cheap

By Elizabeth Low, Alex Longley, and others