Commodities Oil prices fell on Wednesday but rose on Thursday morning during Asian trading hours. Brent and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude were both down 3.1% on the day.  On Thursday morning, Brent crude rose 0.7% and WTI gained 0.8%.  EU member states are working on a deal to expand their price caps on Russian oil.  Oil (NYSEARCA:OIL) 29.31 -2.72% Gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) 181.67 1.26% Silver (NYSEARCA:SLV) 22.08 1.15% Corn (NYSEARCA:CORN) 26.69 0.41% Lumber (NASDAQ:WOOD) 79.14 0.89% *Commodity prices are as of 7 am ET. Data from MarketWatch. To understand why investors track the prices of these commodities, .