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Current price of oil as of April 17, 2026

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Current price of oil as of April 17, 2026
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At 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $96.18 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a drop of 88 cents compared with yesterday morning and around $28 higher than the price one year ago.



Oil price per barrel% ChangePrice of oil yesterday$97.06-0.90%Price of oil 1 month ago$103.47-7.04%Price of oil 1 year ago$67.82+41.81%



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It’s impossible to forecast oil prices with detailed

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