What is the ticker symbol for Crude Oil?

Question

When the news reports, "Crude Oil is $140 per barrel", how can I go to the web and find that same info? I would like a plot of Crude Oil prices just like I can plot the stock price of any publicly traded company: I go to bigcharts.com and put in the ticker symbol. I'm not looking for an index fund. I'm looking for whatever is reported on the news.

Answer 1

oil is not a stock.  oil companies have stock , but oil itself is traded on the futures market. so look at commodity futures and go from there !!!!!!!!!   hope that helps!!!!!!!

Answer 2

I go here cause they track commodities in one of the portals....

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/numbe...

Look under the Energy section.