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BP May Cut Renewable Energy Spending. Its Stock Could Catch Exxon, Chevron.
BP stock was heading higher Wednesday morning after the Wall Street Journal reported that the European oil giant was planning to narrow its investments in renewable energy. The former British Petroleu...
European Solar And Wind Surpass Gas Power For The First Time
Harvesting soybeans under hanging solar panels in Amance, eastern France. Solar and wind overtook … [+] natural gas electricity generation to produce more than a fifth of the EU’s electric...
Exxon Earnings Are Coming Tuesday. Why a Record Year May Not Be Enough.
Exxon Mobil is on track to close out its most profitable year ever, with analysts projecting that the company earned $58 billion in 2022. But when the oil giant reports fourth quarter earnings on Tues...
BP Cuts Long-Term Oil and Gas Demand Outlook. It’s Good News for Renewables.
BP lowered its long-term oil and gas demand outlook as it said Russia’s war in Ukraine will accelerate the global shift toward renewable energy in a report Monday. In its 2023 energy outlook, the Brit...
Gas Prices Are Rising. Refiner Stocks Are Riding the Wave—for Now.
Gasoline prices have risen 41 cents a gallon in the past month to an average national price of $3.51. Summer driving could be pricier than many expect, though it’s unlikely to be as bad as last year, ...
2 Natural-Gas Stocks to Play the Coming Rebound
The collapse in natural-gas prices in recent months has generated a fraction of the attention of the run-up of the first half of 2022. But it could dent 2023 profits industrywide—and dampen inflation ...
Energy Earnings Could Drop 11%
After two years of skyrocketing growth, oil and gas earnings are now past their peak. The good thing for the stocks is that the peak was remarkably high, and the decline is likely to be very gradual. ...
Natural Gas Prices Are Dropping. What Comes Next.
The price of natural gas fell below $3 per million British Thermal Units for the first time since May 2021 on Wednesday, and it kept dropping on Thursday. It’s a stunning decline for a commodity that ...
Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks to Watch This Week
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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
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EOG Resources Director Mike Kerr Buys Up Stock
Energy exploration and production company EOG Resources had a boffo 2022, and one of its directors made his second purchase of shares in three months. EOG stock (ticker: EOG) surged 46% last year, lif...
Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply
Only in the past two years has the U.S. fully grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies as oil. In the digitizing world, power tools commonly come with Bluetooth chips that tr...
Exxon Mobil Stock Should Shine, Even in a Recession
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
ConocoPhillips in Talks to Sell Venezuelan Oil in U.S. to Recover Billions It Is Owed
ConocoPhillips, which abandoned Venezuela after its assets were nationalized in 2007, is now open to a deal to sell the country’s oil in the U.S. as a way to recover the close to $10 billion it is owe...
Exxon, Diamondback, and Coterra Stock Could Continue to Rally
U.S. energy stocks outperformed every other sector in the market in 2021 and 2022. That sets up a key test this year of the industry’s staying power. Not since 2010 has energy outperformed the broader...
BP and Shell vs. Exxon and Chevron: The Mystery of Big Oil’s P/E Gap
Last year, global oil companies boomed. BP and Shell both based in London, saw share prices rise some 40% in 2022 and trade at five times forward earnings. U.S.-based Exxon Mobil soared nearly 80% and...
Shell to Pay $2 Billion in Windfall Taxes. Why the Stock Is Rising.
Shell Europe’s largest oil and gas company, said it will have to pay about $2 billion in additional taxes in the fourth quarter, but still sees strong earnings from natural gas trading for the period....
Berkshire Hathaway Had a Strong 2022. What to Watch in 2023.
Berkshire Hathaway is coming off a strong year, one in which operating earnings climbed, investment activity picked up sharply, and the stock handily outperformed the S&P 500 The outlook for 2023 ...
BP and Shell Are a Buy in 2023. Why They’re Cheaper Than U.S. Oil Giants.
It was a great year for oil companies such as Exxon Chevron Shell and BP But the giants of European energy are still trading at significantly lower valuations than their American counterparts, which m...
‘Auto makers are building more expensive vehicles’: Why you should not buy a new car in 2023
There are always good reasons for most people not to buy a new car. Such a purchase can set you back for years, as high monthly payments delay the buildup of savings and investments that will be neede...
These 2 dividend-stock ETFs are more like growth funds in disguise. Can either still work in your income portfolio?
Quality-stock and dividend-focused strategies shined during the market declines of 2022, rebounding from what investors may have found to be disappointing performance during the previous long bull mar...