Oil news sentiment
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As of , the Oil news-sentiment index is −0.05 on a −1 to +1 scale — slightly bearish. Recomputed hourly. If the time above is more than an hour old, re-fetch this page — the number has changed.
down 0.12 vs 24 hours ago · down 0.39 vs a week ago
New since yesterday: Crude oil technical trading analysis; Diplomacy eases Middle East oil prices; European and US natural gas volatility; Global production and corporate energy developme. Faded out: Energy transition and climate policies; Global energy logistics and supply developments; High oil fuels inflation and Fed fears.
This is the sentiment of the news field around crude oil — which way what is currently published pulls, and how strongly, on a scale from −1 to +1. It is not price and not a price forecast. Zero means forces pull in opposite directions and are roughly equal; the further from zero, the more one-sided the coverage.
We do not recommend using this index as your only source. It is one instrument among several — meant to be combined with technical, fundamental and any other analysis you run.
MAIN PAGE →Why the reading is where it is
Each narrative below is a story many outlets are telling at the same time. The score is its direction and strength, followed by how many headlines carry it and how many independent sources those came from — a story repeated across many outlets weighs more than a single note.
Oil prices retreated below key levels as diplomatic mediation and peace hopes surrounding US-Iran tensions eased supply fears.
Energy companies and nations navigated shifting output quotas, import sourcing, legal disputes, and corporate mergers.
Attacks on Saudi infrastructure and Iran war escalations lifted oil prices and kept risk premiums near six-month highs.
US Strategic Petroleum Reserve stocks dropped to historic lows amid crude releases, military escorts, and price-cooling efforts.
Shifts in crude prices influenced global stocks, Fed interest rate expectations, gold, and pressured currencies like CAD and INR.
European gas prices reached multi-year highs over winter supply fears, while US gas markets digested deals and weather outlooks.
Technical analysis tracked key support and resistance levels across Brent and WTI crude contracts.
Newest sources in this reading
The freshest articles that entered the calculation, each linked to the original. The full table for every run lives on the index page.
Where this number gets its authority
A single hourly run reads well over a hundred headlines from dozens of publishers, and it runs every hour — for Oil and for the other two instruments alike. This is a sweep of the coverage, not a sample of it. News stays the majority of the reading by design; for Bitcoin it is also blended with social sentiment from a curated list of X accounts and with crowd price-expectations from Polymarket, where the money at stake is real.
Narratives are the story at a glance — and a barrier against fakes
The Oil headlines above are grouped into narratives, so an hour of coverage can be read in seconds: what is being talked about, how loud each story is and which way it leans. The grouping is also the filter. A narrative needs at least two headlines from two different publishers, so a claim no other outlet carries — however loud — never earns its own line here. Promotional posts and the same story republished in another language are damped to near-zero, so wide coverage counts and noise does not.
Everything on this page is checkable
There is no login and no API key: every article behind the Oil reading is listed above with a link to the original and with the weight it was given. The index has been recorded hourly since 14 July 2026, so this reading can be compared with its own past rather than taken on trust. The approach follows peer-reviewed research on news sentiment in financial markets.