Choppy oil keeps investors on edge, stocks brace for big earnings week
The short-term focus again was oil prices, which swung sharply as investors weighed Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis declaring a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia against Reuters reporting that mediators had passed Iran a proposal to de-escalate the war with the U.S. Benchmark Brent crude was flat on the day at $88.3 a barrel, having earlier climbed…
