Entity

Oil

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

As of 10 Oct 2026Last evidence 10 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Oil prices hit $105 and stocks tumble as Trump considers renewed strikes on Iran

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

  • Natural Gas, WTI Oil, Brent Oil Forecasts – Oil Rallies As Trump Says U.S. Would Not Attack Iran Before Midterm Elections

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

  • Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat

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

  • Hurricane Isaias Shuts Down Nearly Two-Thirds of Gulf Oil Production

    Reported claim · first reported 7 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

All 12 events and claims involving Oil

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 316 mentions on 10 Oct 2026, against 297 on 19 Sept 2026 (+6%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Oil yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 9 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 26 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

7,892 documents · 504 publishers · 33% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 10 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.332: about 67% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt 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.

IranTrumpHormuzMiddle EastUnited StatesSaudi ArabiaInflationChinaRussia
  • Iran · 3,413 shared documents
  • Trump · 2,262 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 2,244 shared documents
  • Middle East · 2,083 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 2,064 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 1,742 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,599 shared documents
  • Inflation · 1,586 shared documents
  • China · 1,557 shared documents
  • Russia · 1,463 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +379% from 26 Aug 2026 to 10 Oct 2026, between 56 and 410 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Oil, day by day.

Market price, cited

10% Yes

priced 10 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 12% → 10% Yes (-2pts, from 26 Aug 2026 to 10 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 hit $105 and stocks tumble as Trump considers renewed strikes on Iran

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

    corroborated

  • Natural Gas, WTI Oil, Brent Oil Forecasts – Oil Rallies As Trump Says U.S. Would Not Attack Iran Before Midterm Elections

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

    corroborated

  • Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat

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

    corroborated

  • Hurricane Isaias Shuts Down Nearly Two-Thirds of Gulf Oil Production

    Reported claim · first reported 7 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

  • Hormuz tanker attacks mount, putting oil flows at risk

    Reported claim · first reported 5 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 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Japan Courts Saudi Arabia and UAE as Asia's Oil Supply Fears Persist

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 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

Walk the record from Oil

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Oil

Entity.

Evidence
7,892 documents · 504 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 10 Oct 2026
Measured
33% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
10 Oct 2026
22 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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.

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 10 Oct 2026.