Pfizer, Cisco, and 5 Other Stocks With the Cash Flow to Raise Their Dividends

A company’s free cash is a lifeline for dividends, buybacks and other uses of capital. If that well runs dry or even slows down, a company can be forced to dial down its spending. For this screen, Bar...

Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan Is a Risk to More Than Just the Chip Industry

Asian stocks worked out early there is no good outcome from Nancy Pelosi’s current tour of the region. By landing in Taiwan Tuesday or Wednesday, the speaker of the House risks Chinese military retali...

BP Stock Surges After Energy Giant Records $8.5 Billion Quarterly Profit

Text size BP reported second-quarter adjusted profit of $8.5 billion as it benefited from soaring energy prices. Getty Images BP is the latest oil supermajor to post its most profitable quarter in yea...

What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Alibaba, Boeing, NIO and More.

Text size Alibaba stock rises early Monday. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Stock futures were trading lower Monday as recession fears remained at the forefront of investors’ minds as a new trading mo...

Exxon Skips Its Victory Lap

More than a year after an activist investor-led shake-up, Exxon Mobil has ticked a lot of boxes to endear itself to its shareholders. Now, the company is on a broader charm offensive. Exxon Mobil on F...

Exxon Mobil Stock Surges After Energy Giant Drills to Record Profit

Text size PHOTOCAP Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Soaring energy prices and increased production helped Exxon Mobil shatter its previous record for quarterly profit as the oil and gas giant posted e...

Senate Climate Bill Is a Boon for Fossil Fuels

WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats are moving forward on the costliest and most ambitious effort ever by the U.S. to address climate change—powered in part by benefits for fossil fuels and the broader energy...

Shell Posts Record Quarterly Profit of $11.5 Billion. Exxon and Chevron Are Next.

Text size Shell also announced plans to buy back a further $6 billion of shares. Getty Images Shell , the United Kingdom–domiciled energy giant, posted record quarterly earnings Thursday a day before ...

Exxon, Chevron earnings preview: Oil giants under the microscope as profit booms

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. are scheduled to report second-quarter earnings on Friday before the bell as their booming profits and revenue remain under increased scrutiny and rising costs and ...

Valero, Occidental, and 3 Other Oil Companies Pumping Out Cash

Text size Valero is one of the energy companies throwing off a lot of cash right now. Ty Wright/Bloomberg Oil and gas companies are heading into earnings season this week with enormous momentum. Refin...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

Strike at Machinery Maker CNH Industrial Grinds On as Talks Stall

Negotiations between CNH Industrial NV and the equipment maker’s striking workers have hit a stalemate, deepening supply-chain problems with farm and construction equipment. Bargaining sessions betwee...

Energy Stocks Are Cheap. Just Ask Warren Buffett.

Energy stocks are on sale, after a sharp selloff since oil and natural-gas prices peaked in early June. Oil is down 18% from its high, to $102 a barrel, while gas has fallen by a third, to about $6 pe...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Steve Pope/Getty Images Text size Warren Buffett is snapping up stocks, buying an insurer at a bargain price, and exciting investors in Berkshire Hathaway . B...

Berkshire Hathaway Director Ron Olson Scooped Up Shares

Text size Attorney Ron Olson walks to a session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in July 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A longtime director of Berkshire Hathaway snapped up the stock...

9 Dividend Aristocrat Stocks That Could Ride Out a Recession

Although Hormel shares are down this year, the company is among nine Dividend Aristocrats that figure to show some resilience if a recession comes to pass. Michael Edwards/Dreamstime.com Text size Wit...

Chevron Breaks Below 200-Day Moving Average

In trading on Wednesday, shares of Chevron (NYSE:CVX) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $138.47, changing hands as low as $138.20 per share. Chevron shares are currently trading down about...

Berkshire Hathaway Seems Headed for a 20% Stake in Occidental

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett likes energy companies. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway has rapidly increased its stake in Occidental Petroleum to 17.4...

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Petroleum Stock

Text size Warren Buffett hip Somodevilla/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to buy more shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, purchasing a total of about $580 million of stock on Wedne...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

Warren Buffett Adds To Massive Stake In Occidental Petroleum, Buying The Dip After Oil Prices Drop

Topline With oil prices down this month, billionaire investor Warren Buffett is once again buying the dip by adding to one of his favorite energy stocks, as his investing conglomerate Berkshire Hathaw...

Chevron, ExxonMobil CEOs Set The Stage For Thursday Meeting With Biden Officials

Mike Wirth, chairman and chief executive officer of Chevron USA Inc., speaks during the 2022 … [+] CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Monday, March 7, 2022. CERAWe...

It’s Exxon vs Chevron: Here’s How Investors Can Play Them

On Tuesday, the nation of Qatar announced the selection of Exxon Mobil (XOM) , TotalEnergies (TTE) , Shell (SHEL) , and ConocoPhillips (COP) as partners in what is expected to be the multi-billion dol...

How Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust became Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Marathon

While large tech companies are currently feeling the heat from regulators and Congress, over a century ago, the trustbusters had their sights on Big Oil. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big ...

A Simple Way To Offset Higher Gas Prices

LOS ANGELES, CA-JUNE 1, 2022: Jim Moreno, 56, of Los Angeles, takes a photograph of the sign, … [+] showing the price of gasoline approaching close to $8 a gallon at the Chevron gas station loca...

Maui’s Public Nuisance Climate Lawsuit

Over 1,300 climate lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. None has yet succeeded. That fact in and of itself should give pause. In countries where plaintiffs who lose lawsuits must pay the defendant’s l...

Chevron CEO Sees Russian Oil Output Falling After Exit of Western Firms

Russia is still finding a home for much of its oil despite expanding sanctions, but its production likely will diminish following the departure of western oil companies, Chevron Chief Executive Mike W...

Here Are 6 Stocks That Pay a Lot in Dividends and Have Solid Yields. And Microsoft and Apple.

PepsiCo total quarterly dividend payout and yield make for an intriguing combination. Here, a Pepsi display at a shop in Grovetown, Ga., earlier this year. Billy Blume/Dreamstime.com Text size Sometim...

Oil stocks enjoy broad rally as crude prices jump, with Exxon Mobil at an 8-year high and Chevron at a record

The energy sector is on track to enjoy a unanimous rally Tuesday, as the European Union’s ban on Russian oil has sent crude oil futures surging. The SPDR Energy Select Sector ETF XLE, +1.00% ral...

Why Chevron Corporation is a buy despite trading at 52-week highs

Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) at $176 is trading at the year’s highest levels. After facing resistance at $170 since March, the stock is breaking out to find new highs. Zacks Research recommends hold...

How Corporations Like Chevron Use The Law To Get Their Way

In 2008, I attended Chevron’s CVX annual meeting in Richmond, California, alongside indigenous activists from Ecuador concerned about their ownership of Texaco and the legacy of environmental destruct...

If There’s a Recession Coming, Not Even the Fed Could Stop It Now

The word recession is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Influential investor and philanthropist George Soros is talking about it in Davos. The Federal Reserve, on the day minutes are published, is cons...