Barclays reported a 20 per cent rise in profits in the first quarter, helped by solid performance in its investment bank and the flurry of trading activity unleashed by Donald Trump’s global trade war ...

Firstly, global inventory is pretty low. As an example, the 25mn barrels in storage at Cushing, Oklahoma — an important hub for the US oil benchmark traded at Nymex — represents a 19-year low for this ...