Commodities and energy
Read energy prices against production and inventories
What energy costs and what the United States produces and stores, from the Energy Information Administration, plus a separate World Bank Pink Sheet selector that broadens the page to 90 commodities. WTI crude settled at $84.77 a barrel on Aug 11, 2026 and Brent at $93.26, a +8.49 Brent premium; Henry Hub natural gas spot was $2.79 per MMBtu. Underneath the prices, US crude field production ran 13.8 million barrels a day, commercial crude stocks (excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) stood at 424 million barrels, and working gas in Lower-48 underground storage held 3,153 billion cubic feet. The Pink Sheet block below keeps its nominal vs real variants and unit-based price vs index classification explicit rather than blending them into one commodity line.
Data as of World Bank Pink Sheet through Jul 1, 2026; EIA spot prices through Aug 11, 2026, weekly supply and inventories through Aug 7, 2026
World Bank Pink Sheet
This is the broad commodity block: 90 Pink Sheet commodities from Jan 1, 1960 to Jul 1, 2026. Frequency and variant are both explicit controls. Only the 6 slice pairs the file actually contains are selectable, and whatever is shown below names its commodity, frequency, variant, price/index classification and unit.
Showing Agriculture, a nominal published index (2010=100) with unit 2010=100, with coverage Jan 1, 1960 to Jul 1, 2026.
World Bank Pink Sheet
Agriculture: nominal published index (2010=100) on the monthly Pink Sheet
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets Pink Sheet (CC BY 4.0) The selected series is a nominal published index (2010=100), classified from its null unit under an index variant. The chart preserves that published basis and disables the derived Index transform. No overlapping EIA series exists for this selection; the World Bank line stands on its own source and unit. Methodology
Crude oil prices
WTI rose over the year while Brent retained a premium
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, petroleum and natural gas spot prices Daily spot, free-on-board. WTI begins 1986 and Brent 1987, so the earliest WTI-only stretch shows no Brent line. Spot means physical delivery now, not a futures contract; the CFTC positioning page carries the WTI futures contract, not Brent. Methodology
Natural gas prices
Henry Hub is down over the year and near its annual low
Daily US natural-gas spot prices in dollars per MMBtu. Henry Hub was $2.79 on Aug 11, 2026, −8.5% over the year and near the low end of a 52-week range that ran from $2.54 to $30.72 (gas spot spikes hard on cold snaps, then falls back).
Natural gas inventories
US gas storage is little changed from a year ago
Weekly Lower-48 working gas in underground storage in billion cubic feet. Inventories were 3,153 Bcf in the week of Aug 7, 2026, +0.7% against a year earlier, inside a 52-week band of 1,818 to 3,950 Bcf as the storage year swings from winter draw to summer injection.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report and Natural Gas Storage Henry Hub spot is daily; the storage report is weekly (Thursdays, for the prior Friday), Lower-48 working gas. The sharp storage sawtooth is the natural gas year: draw through winter, inject through summer. A single daily gas-spot print can spike far above the range during extreme cold and revert within days. Methodology
Retail fuel prices
Diesel costs more than gasoline and both are higher than a year ago
Weekly US average retail fuel prices in dollars per gallon across the full EIA history. Where the crude price reaches households. The US average retail price of gasoline (all grades) was $4.141 a gallon in the week of Aug 10, 2026, +26.8% over the year; on-highway No. 2 diesel, the fuel that moves freight, was $5.257, +38.3% over the year and $1.12 above gasoline. Retail fuel lags crude by weeks and never falls as fast as it rises.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices Weekly US average, all formulations. Gasoline is the all-grades average; diesel is on-highway No. 2. These are pump prices including taxes, a different thing from the crude spot above. Methodology
Crude oil production
US crude production is near its annual high
Weekly US crude field production in million barrels per day across the full EIA history. Production ran 13.8 million barrels a day in the week of Aug 7, 2026, +3.9% over the year, near the top of its 52-week range (13.2 to 13.9 million a day): the shale build that lifted US output to record highs is the long climb in this line.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report and Natural Gas Storage Weekly, from the EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Production is field production of crude only (not total liquids). Methodology
Crude oil inventories
US commercial crude stocks are little changed from a year ago
Weekly US commercial crude inventories in million barrels across the full EIA history. Stocks, which exclude the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, were 424 million barrels, +0.2% against a year earlier. Rising stocks with flat demand weigh on price; falling stocks tighten it.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report and Natural Gas Storage Weekly, from the EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Stocks exclude the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, so this is the commercial inventory the market trades against. Methodology
Related: who is long or short WTI crude futures, by trader class, on futures positioning (CFTC Commitments of Traders). Every series links to EIA: WTI, Henry Hub. See the methodology for series definitions, the two verified anchors, the range guard, and every limitation.