{"id":77381,"date":"2026-08-20T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/08\/20\/u-s-stocks-may-come-under-pressure-as-crude-oil-prices-spike\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:55:09","slug":"u-s-stocks-may-come-under-pressure-as-crude-oil-prices-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/08\/20\/u-s-stocks-may-come-under-pressure-as-crude-oil-prices-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Stocks May Come Under Pressure As Crude Oil Prices Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Stocks are likely to move to the downside in early trading on Thursday, giving back ground following the modest rebound seen in the previous session. The major index futures are currently pointing to a lower open for the <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span>, with the S&amp;P 500 futures down by 0.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">The downward momentum on Wall Street comes as the price of crude oil is soaring amid concerns about the conflict in the Middle East following President Donald Trump&#8217;s latest threats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is available exclusively to RTT Biotech Investor and Intelligent Investor subscribers. Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Start Free Trial<\/p>\n<p>FREE 7-Day Trial &#8211; No Payment Required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Business News<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>U.S. Stocks May Come Under Pressure As Crude Oil Prices Spike<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-08-20 12:55:09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks are likely to move to the downside in early trading on Thursday, giving back ground following the modest rebound seen in the previous session. The major index futures are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1585504256855-6718f7a693ae?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=934&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/77382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}