* Dutch firm accused of manipulating oil prices * CFTC case one of largest involving oil price manipulation * No admissi...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says higher auto mileage standards set under his administration and better cars built by a resurgent U.S. au...

Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of...

If the global economic expansion, troubled as it may be, continues, we will see even higher oil prices in 2012. But what does that say about the sustainability of growth?

NEW YORK — Oil prices soared Tuesday as tensions grew over key Persian Gulf oil shipments. Benchmark crude jumped by $4.13, or 4.2 percent, to ...

(AP) NEW YORK — Call it an Independence Day discount. Gasoline prices usually peak in the summer. This year, however, they peaked a little earlie...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. commodity regulators are suing three companies and two individuals claiming they manipulated crude oil futures prices on the New Yo...

WAFRA, Kuwait -- The Arabian Peninsula has fueled the global economy with oil for five decades. How long it can continue to do so hinges on projects l...

The probe into the "flash crash" has yet to report the cause, but whatever it is will provide another example that the system is dangerously unpoliced and that manipulative behavior is unchecked.

McCain says "Drill here, drill now!" to reduce the price of gas, but every time the price of oil goes up, more jobs return from China, and first to the basic heavy industries like steel. Why does he hate the rust belt states? Or, for that matter, Mexico?

Opec nations earned as much in the first half of this year as they did in the whole of 2007 - thanks both to record oil prices and record production -...

The more expensive oil gets, the more Katherine Carver's life shrinks. She's given up RV trips. She stays home most weekends. She's scrapped her twice...