--- title: Oil Prices Fluctuate as Trump Win Sinks In description: Benchmark oil prices bounced around late Tuesday into Wednesday as the energy market tried to gauge the effects of a Trump presidency. authors: - name: Martha C. 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[Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![oil-prices](https://img.money.com/2016/11/oil-prices.jpeg) Benchmark oil prices fell overnight following the news of Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential race, but reversed some of those losses early Wednesday, in yet another sign of the turbulence the markets are undergoing as they digest the surprising presidential election outcome. Analysts pointed to Trump's campaign-trail commitments to the fossil fuel industry — and his dismissal of the science of climate change — as reasons propelling the cautious optimism. "Mr. Trump has vowed to lead a fossil fuel revival to underpin job growth and has also put man-made climate change denial at the forefront of his energy policy," analysts from JBC Energy wrote in a research note Wednesday, [*USA Today*](http://www.usatoday.com/story/11/09/crude-oil-presidential-election-2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/93527758/) reports. "Energy would benefit if some of the energy infrastructure projects that are stalled are released and move ahead," said John Conlon, chief equity strategist at People’s United Wealth Management. There's also the possibility that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which has been trying to cobble together a coalition to cap output and shore up prices, could succeed in those efforts at its meeting this month, which would likely have an even bigger impact on prices than the U.S. election outcome. Oil market analysts cited by the [*Wall Street Journal*](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/11/09/oil-choppy-as-investors-gage-trump-presidency-energy-journal/) pointed out that oil might be getting a boost from investors shifting their money to commodities in a flight to safer havens. Others suggested that the volatility could be short-lived. “Some of the negative fears have waned," UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo told [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-08/oil-hovers-near-45-as-investors-await-u-s-election-results). "Donald Trump is a fan of all kinds of energy consumption… looking to traditional energy sources more so,” than solar or other renewables, said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com. “To the degree he puts policies in place that could lift coal and oil, we’ll have to wait to see what kind of impact that can have." ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/oil-prices-donald-trump/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Economy and Politics", "item": "https://money.com/economy-and-politics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Gas Prices", "item": "https://money.com/gas-prices/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Oil Prices Fluctuate as Trump Win Sinks In" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/oil-prices-donald-trump/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/oil-prices-donald-trump/", "name": "Oil Prices Fluctuate as Trump Win Sinks In", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-11-09T15:09:05.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/oil-prices-donald-trump/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/oil-prices-donald-trump/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2016-11-09T15:09:05.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Oil Prices Fluctuate as Trump Win Sinks In", "articleSection": "Economy and Politics", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/11/oil-prices.jpeg", "width": 3000, "height": 2000, "caption": "oil-prices" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. 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