Contango Oil & Gas founder Kenneth Peak died in 2013, then the company struggled through the most recent oil bust, with bankruptcy looming. At the beginning of September, the Houston company’s stock ...

The oil market continues to send mixed signals, with a pending U.S.-China trade deal and potential production cut extension--or deepening--by OPEC counterbalanced by rising crude inventories and an ...

Now, what’s a futures contract? “A futures contract is a legal agreement to buy or sell a particular commodity asset, or security at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future.” ...