Current price of oil as of July 9 ^8.3%

fortune.com - By Joseph Hostetler - 7/9/2026, 12:05 PM

Availability Heuristic 8.4% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 8.3% - Negativity Bias 7.2%

By 8:05 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil had reached $79.25 per barrel, measured using the Brent benchmark. That’s $1.08 more than it cost yesterday morning and about $8.30 above its price a year earlier. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $78.17 +1.38% Price of oil 1 month ago $96.41 -17.79% Price of oil 1 year ago $70.98... more