Europe Inches Closer to a Ban on Russian Oil. Here’s What That Would Mean.

Europe will continue debating a ban on imports of Russian oil over the weekend. While such a deal is far from certain, the New York Times reported Friday that the European Union could approve a phased...

Chevron Earnings Just Miss Expectations, Despite Surging Oil Prices

Text size A Chevron petroleum storage tank Joe Raedle/Getty Images Chevron posted earnings that were slightly below analyst expectations for the first quarter. Chevron (ticker: CVX), the second-bigges...

Poland and Bulgaria say Russia suspending natgas supplies over rubles

Officials in Poland and Bulgaria say Russia is suspending their countries’ natural gas deliveries starting on Wednesday. The governments of the two European countries said Tuesday that Russian energy ...

Poland says Russia warned that natgas supply will stop on Wednesday

Russia will halt natural gas flows to Poland on Wednesday in an escalation in the standoff between Moscow and Europe over energy supplies and the war in Ukraine, according to news reports Tuesday. Rus...

Occidental, Hess, and 3 Other Oil Companies With Big Earnings Momentum

Marathon Petroleum’s refinery in Los Angeles. The oil company has benefited from the increase in demand for petroleum products like diesel fuel. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Text size Some energy...

Johnson & Johnson, Schlumberger Boosted Dividends

Johnson & Johnson, Southern Co., and Schlumberger were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend this week. Healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (ticker:JNJ) plans to boost it...

CEO of Top Natural Gas Producer Sees ‘Tremendous’ Moment for U.S. Energy

On Thursday, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry put natural gas companies on the clock, telling them to clean up their acts in the next six to 10 years or be replaced. On Friday, the head of the largest ga...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

New 12-Point Climate Change Standard Introduced For Hotels

Julia Simpson, WTTC President & CEO; Philippines Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat; and … [+] Arnold W. Donald, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Climate Officer, Carnival...

These 20 highly rated stocks are expected to rise at least 70% over the next year

A sliding stock market means many companies are on sale, which spells opportunity for investors with investment horizons of several years. A list of the most favored names among analysts, along with c...

Why States Continue To Overrule Local Regulation Of Fossil Fuels

Tennessee is poised to become the latest state to preempt local regulations restricting fossil fuel … [+] usage and infrastructure. getty Like their counterparts in many other state capitals, Te...

Oil Service Stocks Are Gaining Steam. These Are the Ones to Watch.

Text size Prices and margins are improving for companies like Haliburton. Dreamstime Oil services and equipment companies slimmed down after the last oil bust, and that’s left them looking lean as oil...

Opinion: Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter spells trouble for Tesla investors — here’s why

For years, Elon Musk has used hype to prop up Tesla’s stock. It’s worked so well that other companies have followed his lead. But now we think the world has seen that the emperor has no clothes. The a...

Opinion: Why the United States is reluctant to become the Saudi Arabia of natural gas

OXFORD, England (Project Syndicate)—With images of Russian aggression and war crimes in Ukraine continuing to dominate the media in Europe and around the world, Germany has pledged to cut its imports ...

Inflation is raging, but these 16 companies have pricing power

Decades of deflationary forces that helped feed booming prices for U.S. stocks are over, at least for now. But some companies are countering the trend, by a combination of holding down expenses and ra...

Climate Activists Renew Pressure On ‘Devastating’ East African Oil Pipeline

Star Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has spoken out against a major crude oil pipeline being … [+] developed in Uganda and Tanzania. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images A huge crude oi...

Three value stocks that can provide safety as interest rates rise

Stocks have been on a rocky road this year, as investors have tried to anticipate every possible move by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation. Value strategies have held up better than growth strat...

Why Schlumberger and Other Oil Services Firms Are Early in Their Comeback Story

Text size Schlumberger well service trucks. A Piper Sandler analyst thinks Schlumberger stock could rise 29%. Dreamstime Companies producing and selling oil have been the most prominent beneficiaries ...

General Dynamics Stock: Why It’s Time to Buy

Text size General Dynamics M1 Abrams battle tanks. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Russia’s war in Ukraine shows no sign of ending, and the news of civilian deaths in places like Kramatorsk, Bucha, and Irpi...

The stock market is behaving a lot like it did during the Iraq war. Here’s the future if the pattern continues.

History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme. The Iraq war of 2003 doesn’t have many parallels to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, other than perhaps global unpopularity. But there seems to be at least one ...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes 11% Stake in HP

Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated an 11.4% stake worth $4.2 billion in HP Inc. , the maker of personal computers and printers, ...

Why U.S. consumers suspect gas price gouging — and how much stations actually profit from a gallon of the fuel

Oil company executives will be on the hot seat Wednesday at a House subcommittee hearing as U.S. consumers across the country allege gasoline price gouging at the pump, where drivers last month paid r...

3 Energy Companies That Should Buy Back Stock: Analyst

Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...

Defense Stocks Rose With the Ukraine War. Then a Tight Proposed Budget Set Them Back.

Elias Stein Text size Defense stocks took a surprising blow after a proposed defense budget was released last week. The Biden administration asked Congress for $773 billion to fund defense for fiscal ...

Tellurian Stock Is Upgraded Amid Rising Demand for Liquefied Natural Gas

Text size A natural gas processing plant. Dreamstime Shares of Tellurian were surging Friday after the stock was upgraded by Credit Suisse analysts, who cited optimism over the natural-gas producer’s ...

How Rising Oil Prices Turned This Texas Scrubland Into an Energy Stock Worth Fighting Over

An unexpected consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to turn a Gilded Age Texas failure into a modern jackpot. The demand for non-Russian oil and natural gas has ignited the value of 880,000 ...

As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken

U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...

These 3 Energy Companies Should Buy Back Stock, Analyst Says

Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...

Warren Buffett Has Amassed Over 90% of His Wealth Since He Turned 65

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Who says you can’t get really rich when you’re old? One of the Warren Buffett’s remarkable achievements is that he has generated over 90% of his weal...

Biden says latest Strategic Petroleum Reserve release could cut gas prices 10 to 35 cents per gallon — but some experts worry about long-term costs

President Joe Biden announced Thursday the daily release of 1 million barrels of oil from the country’s reserves for the next six months as a way to bring down gas prices that have been breaking recor...

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub Buys Stock After Warren Buffett Did

Text size Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum has had quite a year, and CEO Vicki Hollub just bought shares of the energy explorer on the open mar...

Alex Epstein’s Case For Using More Oil, Coal And Natural Gas

SEPTEMBER 19: Picture taken 19 September 1984 in the North Sea of the Norwegian oil drilling rig … [+] “Statfjord B”. (Photo credit should read STF/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Gett...