Venezuela's gold reserves have drastically dropped as a result of the government's misuse of the metal to secure loans, ...

There’s a record 1.4 billion barrels of crude currently on the world’s oceans, pushing down benchmark prices and sending gasoline under $3 a gallon at the pump in the US.

It was 6:48 a.m. on Feb. 21. and two oil tankers were bobbing around in international waters about 40 miles east of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave at the northern tip of Morocco. The wind, which topped ...