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Berkshire Holds 16.4% of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Purchase
Text size Buffett likes American companies, and Occidental gets the vast bulk of its energy production domestically. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to add to its stake i...
Russian Gas Cuts Threaten World’s Largest Chemicals Hub
LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany—For years, BASF SE one of the world’s largest chemicals companies, built its business model around cheap and plentiful Russian natural gas, which it uses to generate power and as...
Energy Stocks Oneok and Chesapeake Energy Are Down. Execs Bought Up Shares.
Text size Energy firms Oneok and Chesapeake Energy saw large insider share purchases. Dreamstime.com Two energy firms caught up in a recent price slump saw large insider share purchases. President Joe...
Berkshire Hathaway Holds 16.3% of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Buys
Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway purchased more than $500 million of Occidental Petroleum stock recently and now holds a ...
Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Scores on Billion-Dollar Natural-Gas Gambit
Football season is months away, but Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones already has notched a big win this year betting on natural gas. Mr. Jones took control of producer Comstock Resources four years ag...
Diamondback Stock Jumps. Its Dividend Increase Is ‘Hard to Ignore.’
Diamondback Energy stock gained after announcing a dividend increase. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size Diamondback Energy surged on Tuesday after the oil explorer said it would increase its base d...
U.S. Natural-Gas Exporter Completes First Deal With German Buyer
Venture Global LNG Inc. has struck the first binding deals by a U.S. natural-gas exporter to supply natural gas to a German company, as the European nation turns to America to help replace supplies fr...
Russia again cuts natural gas exports to European countries
Russia reduced natural gas to Europe again Friday, including cutting flows by half to Italy and Slovakia and completely to France, as countries have worked to ease their dependence on Russian supplies...
How Germany Took Over Russia’s Vast Gas-Trading Empire
After Moscow invaded Ukraine, the German government pledged to wean the country off Russian natural gas. This week, it said it would lend billions of euros to the German subsidiary of Russian gas gian...
Some European Factories, Long Dependent on Cheap Russian Energy, Are Shutting Down
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Exxon May Be Making ‘More Than God.’ But Apple and Alphabet Are More Profitable.
Text size President Biden, who his hurting politically due to high inflation, took a swipe at industry leader Exxon Mobil on Friday. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Exxon Mobil may be making “more than God ...
Oil-stock trade is ‘too obvious,’ says this fund manager, who expects a pullback in prices
(Updates original story with Tuttle’s purchase of additional shares of OXY in last paragraph.) Investors’ memories can be short. The same can be said for those of stock traders. Matthew Tuttle sees th...
Exxon Gets an Upgrade, but Analyst Takes ‘Chips Off Table’ for 2 Other Oil Stocks
Text size Gas prices are displayed on a pump at an Exxon gas station in Washington, DC, on May 24, 2022. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Energy stocks have emerged winners in this period of vo...
Record Crack Spreads, $9.77 A Gallon Gas And Why Pump Prices Seem To Go Up Faster Than They Go Down
Average gas prices in the U.S. are surging toward a record $5 per gallon. Getty Images The most expensive gasoline in the United States can be found at the Chevron station in Mendocino, California, wh...
If Oil Keeps Rising, These 5 Stocks Could Benefit
Text size The price of oil has been steadily rising, while making higher highs and higher lows. Xiaomin Wang/Dreamstime.com Oil could be headed for $150 a barrel. That might not be good for the econom...
OPEC Bows To Global Pressure To Increase Oil Supply
Getty Images Key Takeaways The price of crude oil continues to rise and hit new highs on the back of significant demand post-Covid19 OPEC has agreed to increase their oil output to 648,000 barrels a d...
Small-cap growth stocks are at their lowest P/E valuation in at least 24 years.
Growth stocks typically trade at premium prices. But in this market, rising interest rates have turned small-cap growth stocks into a bargain group. This may be a beautiful setup for long-term investo...
Oil Prices on Rise Again as OPEC Considers Suspending Russia From Output Deal
Text size Oil prices have surged above $100 a barrel since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. David McNew/Getty Images Oil prices edged higher after briefly falling back on Tuesday following a report...
TotalEnergies, Equinor, and Other Oil Companies With Attractive Dividends
Equinor, TotalEnergies, and Repsol are up sharply this year—but their solid dividend outlooks make them worth hanging onto. Even Kleppa/Oyvind Gravas, Woldcam AS Text size Some of Europe’s lesser-know...
Here are 15 high-yield stocks expected to raise dividends the most through 2024
The stock market, shocked by the Federal Reserve’s policy changes to fight inflation, has been gored this year, with growth and technology companies bearing the brunt of the biggest declines. Dividend...
These dividend stocks yield at least 5% and have plenty of room to raise payouts
This year’s stock price declines make for an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts co...