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Gold Falls Below $4,000 for the First Time Since July — and Oil Is the Reason Why
2026-10-26
Gold fell below $4,000 an ounce on Monday, October 26, 2026 — its first break under that level since mid-July — after a weekly drop of more than 4%, the steepest since June, as surging oil prices r...

Rig Count Frozen at $116 Oil: U.S. Drillers Just Refused to Chase the Spike
2026-10-25
What happened, in one line The U.S. rig count stayed flat at 603 for a second straight week, even as Brent crude surged past $116 a barrel. Baker Hughes published the count on Friday, October 23, 2...

Dow Falls 652 Points as Oil Hits a Five-Month High — Wall Street's Rough Week Ends in the Red
2026-10-23
The Short Answer The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 652.82 points, or 1.23%, to close at 52,215.16 on Friday, October 23, 2026, snapping a four-day winning streak. The sell-off was driven by a s...

Nasdaq Futures Sink 1.9% as AI Spending Fears Return and Oil Tops $112
2026-10-22
Nasdaq-100 futures fell 1.93% in premarket trading on Thursday, October 22, as earnings from Tesla and Meta revived investor worries about the cost of the AI buildout — and Brent crude jumped more...
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