| Gold •478 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
| Platinum •10 mins | 1,601.60 | +4.90 | +0.31% | |
| WTI Crude •18 hours | 61.50 | -0.29 | -0.47% | |
| Gasoline •18 hours | 1.923 | -0.004 | -0.22% | |
| Ethanol •478 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
| Silver •478 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
| Silver • 478 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
| Copper • 478 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
| Brent Crude • 17 hours | 65.94 | -0.05 | -0.08% | ||
| Natural Gas • 18 hours | 3.304 | -0.040 | -1.20% | ||
| Heating Oil • 18 hours | 2.403 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
Contributor since: 19 Mar 2020
Dilip Hiro is the author of Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World’s Vanishing Oil Resources, published by Nation Books, New York; Politico’s Publishing, London; and Penguin India, Gurgaon.
Since 2016, as an informal leader of the 13-strong non-OPEC group, Russia has been instrumental in the pricing of oil as Saudi Arabia, leading producer…