Entity · moving across domains

Oil

Crude oil; the world's most-traded commodity, setting the base cost of fuel, transport, and industry.

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Oil Prices Plunge as Trump Rules Out Iran Strikes Before Midterms

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • US Stock Market: S&P 500, Nasdaq Futures Retreat After Record Highs as Oil, Yields Climb

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Iran war: Shell sees Middle East oil flows at 80% as Saudi Aramco warns inventories may take 2 years to rebuild

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Iran’s economy deteriorates, oil minister resigns, workers protest: What to know

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Big boost for global economy as OPEC+ cartel agrees to keep oil production steady amid attacks in Gulf

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 13 events and claims involving Oil

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 395 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 329 on 17 Sept 2026 (+20%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Oil yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Crude Oil reach a new all-time high by December 31?” moved from 12% to 10% Yes since 24 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

7,300 documents · 482 publishers · 33% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.328: about 67% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 4 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Oil

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IranHormuzTrumpMiddle EastUnited StatesInflationChinaRussiaAI
  • Iran · 3,168 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 2,104 shared documents
  • Trump · 2,097 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,961 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 1,911 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 1,618 shared documents
  • Inflation · 1,493 shared documents
  • China · 1,456 shared documents
  • Russia · 1,338 shared documents
  • AI · 1,233 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +388% from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 56 and 395 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Oil, day by day.

Market price, cited

10% Yes

priced 8 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 12% → 10% Yes (-2pts, from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026)

on “Will Crude Oil reach a new all-time high by December 31?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Oil

“Will Crude Oil reach a new all-time high by December 31?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: Energy Desk

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Oil

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Oil Prices Plunge as Trump Rules Out Iran Strikes Before Midterms

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • US Stock Market: S&P 500, Nasdaq Futures Retreat After Record Highs as Oil, Yields Climb

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran war: Shell sees Middle East oil flows at 80% as Saudi Aramco warns inventories may take 2 years to rebuild

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran’s economy deteriorates, oil minister resigns, workers protest: What to know

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Big boost for global economy as OPEC+ cartel agrees to keep oil production steady amid attacks in Gulf

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Supreme Court to weigh whether oil companies can be forced to pay for climate damage

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • U.S Coast Guard Intercepts Cargo Ship Carrying Fuel Bound For Cuba Amid Oil Embargo

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Middle East oil exports top pre-war levels in September, but tanker attacks increase

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 10 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • EXCLUSIVE: OPEC+ delays oil capacity review after Iran war disrupts expansion plans, sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Trump says S. Korea deal 'keeps getting better,' unveils $8.4 bil. oil recovery project

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • G7 nations to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel fuel to curb high prices

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Oil Flows Are Up, but Iran Is Still Menacing the Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Big boost for Indian economy as World Bank raises India’s FY27 growth forecast to 7.1 % despite strong El Niñ

    Reported claim · first reported date not on file · 1 claim · publishers not read on this page

    corroborated · not read on this page: its date and members come from the record's node door

Walk the record from Oil

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Oil

Entity.

Evidence
7,300 documents · 482 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 26 Sept 2024, last seen 8 Oct 2026
Measured
33% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
25 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (13)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (2)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Oil, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Oil

Markets whose question is about Oil or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Oil and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

Ask about OilWatch Oil

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 8 Oct 2026.