Oil prices are at their highest in years and politicians want companies to pump more. But most large American frackers are standing pat, or even letting production decline, and instead are handing inv...
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Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon, Bought $10 Billion of Financials
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...
Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon Stock in Q1, Bought $10 Billion of Financials
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...
Buffett invests big chunk of Berkshire Hathaway’s cash
Berkshire Hathaway’s first-quarter earnings fell more than 53% on a large swing on the paper value of its investments, but Warren Buffett found ways to put some of the company’s massive cash pile to w...
Warren Buffett Says Markets Have Become a ‘Gambling Parlor’
OMAHA, Neb.—As recently as February, Warren Buffett lamented he wasn’t finding much out there that was worth buying. That is no longer the case. After a yearslong deal drought, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshir...
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...
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...
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, ...
Signs Start to Emerge That High Energy Prices Are Sapping Demand
Text size Vehicles heading east out of Los Angeles. Vehicle miles traveled in California are starting to flatten out as gasoline prices remain high. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Oil prices h...
Opinion: What would it take for U.S. oil companies to ramp up production? A lot.
Even with oil prices above $100 a barrel and gas prices averaging over $4 a gallon at the pump, frackers show little interest in ramping up output. Companies including Devon Energy DVN, +1.56%, EOG Re...
Texas Survey Shows Why Oil Producers Aren’t Drilling More
Text size The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas surveyed 141 oil and gas firms in the 11th Fed District, which includes Texas and parts of New Mexico and Louisiana. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil and gas...
Opinion: Ukraine war is a wake-up call to ditch oil and gas forever
That invasion, and the subsequent U.S. ban on oil imports from Russia, are partly responsible, but they aren’t the only reason. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the impact of t...
Unless OPEC increases output, oil market will fall into deficit after Russian invasion, IEA says
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and sanctions on its oil exports threaten a supply shock that will weigh on the global economy and push the oil market into a deficit unless major producers increase outpu...
Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales
Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price some of its oil sales to China in yuan, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would dent the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global pet...
Frackers Say Bottlenecks Impede Output Boost as Oil Prices Soar
American shale drillers say there are limits to how much and how quickly they can boost shaky oil supplies following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cautioning that supply-chain issues, investors wary o...
Occidental Petroleum Stock Spikes. 3 Reasons for the Jump.
Text size Shares of Occidental Petroleum are up nearly 90% over the past 12 months. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum stock was rising sharply Monday. There are three reasons for the mov...
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...