Reflections and stock-taking are usually a part of the end-of-year celebrations. For investors in the crude oil market, 2025 has been a rather underwhelming year. Brent oil price began the year on its front foot,

There’s a record 1.4 billion barrels of crude currently on the world’s oceans, pushing down benchmark prices and sending gasoline under $3 a gallon at the pump in the US.

The June rally in crude oil to $78.40 and above the yearly pivot at $75.63 suggested to some that crude oil had bottomed. However. crude oil failed to have a weekly close above the yearly pivot that would have signaled a trend change based on the yearly ...

WTI crude oil (CL1:COM) is ending 2025 near $57.9 a barrel on Wednesday, stuck in a sideways grind after another failed attempt to

Oil prices edged lower after the EIA reported a modest build in U.S. crude inventories alongside increases in gasoline and distillate stockpiles.

China’s crude stockpiling strategy anchored oil prices in 2025, while WTI remains technically bearish and natural gas holds a bullish structure.

I asked how low crude oil can prices fall in a November 6, 2025, Barchart article, where I concluded with the following: NYMEX crude oil’s price remains above the $55 support level in early November 2025.

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Oil prices fell nearly 20% in 2025, marking Brent’s third straight annual loss, as oversupply fears driven by rising OPEC+ output, resilient U.S. shale production, and surging inventories outweighed geopolitical shocks.

Oil prices fell on Wednesday and recorded an annual loss of nearly 20%, as expectations of oversupply increased in a year marked by wars, higher tariffs, increased OPEC+ output and sanctions on Russia,

The Trump administration has blown through both of those domestic legal prohibitions, either because they could not be bothered to get consent from Congress or they did not think they would get the votes.