{"id":429464,"date":"2026-04-11T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/crude-oil-futures-settle-at-96-57\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:00:08","slug":"crude-oil-futures-settle-at-96-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/crude-oil-futures-settle-at-96-57-429464\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil futures settle at $96.57"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The price of crude oil is settling at $96.57. That is down $-1.30 or -1.33% on the day.<\/p>\n<p>For the week, the price is down $-16 or -14.29%. The price is also below the 100 and 200 hour moving averages at $102.87 and $103.57.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"615\">The price low on February 26 came in at $63.81, just ahead of the war starting on February 28. The initial upside move pushed prices to a close of $71.02 on March 2, before momentum accelerated sharply. That surge over the next few days took the price to a high of $119.48 on March 9. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"615\">A sharp correction followed, with the low on March 10 reaching $76.73, but buyers stepped back in and drove the price higher again, peaking at $117.62 earlier this week. Since then, the market has seen another pullback, with the low this week coming in at $91.05.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"768\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Bottom line: The swings\u2014from the mid-$60s to near $120 and back toward $90\u2014underscore just how volatile and headline-driven this market has become.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of crude oil is settling at $96.57. That is down $-1.30 or -1.33% on the day. For the week, the price is down $-16 or -14.29%. The price is also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}