Oil prices have had a quiet November, holding steady around $90 per barrel. There’s a good chance the calm won’t last. A new set of sanctions from Europe will ratchet up the pressure against Russia an...
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Bonds Look Attractive Now. Why Warren Buffett Doesn’t Like Them.
Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Alex Wong/Getty Images Bonds don’t excite Warren Buffett even after the sharp rise in yields this year. The Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) C...
Bahrain Announces Two ‘Significant’ Gas Discoveries
A Bahraini man examines a natural gas pipe in Manama, Bahrain on November 3, 2002 (Photo: Joe … [+] Raedle/Getty Images) Getty Images The small Gulf country of Bahrain said it had made two natur...
Oil Companies Lift Their Dividends as Cash Rolls In
It was a busy week for dividend increases at energy companies, a bonus for investors who have scored as the stocks have taken off this year. The sector is prospering as Russia’s war against Ukraine ha...
This oil company is America’s hottest stock. Why won’t its CEO pump more oil?
Vicki Hollub’s Occidental Petroleum controls the biggest piece of the most important area for oil production in the United States. Not so long ago, an oilman in a position like that—and it would’ve be...
DuPont Ends Rogers Acquisition. Blame China Regulators.
After a wild series of events, stock in materials giant DuPont rose while shares of DuPont’s almost-merger partner Rogers Corp. plummeted. Here’s what happened: DuPont (ticker: DD) on Tuesday complete...
Natural Gas Took a Dive. A Warmer Winter Could Keep Prices Down.
Natural-gas prices were poised for their largest yearly percentage rise in 23 years before erasing much of that gain in the span of six sessions this month. The U.S. market shifted from worries about ...
Exxon and Oil Giants to Post Stunning Earnings
A warning from President Biden could dampen the party atmosphere for Big Oil’s expected third-quarter earnings bonanza. Biden, who is worried about high gasoline prices, said last week that oil compan...
Dividends And Premium In The Pipeline With Kinder Morgan Buy Write
If you own at least 100 shares of a stock, you’re able to sell call options on that long position and receive a premium for doing so. The downside is that you surrender the ability to participate in g...
Oil ends higher; natural gas prices post a weekly loss of more than 20%
Oil futures ended higher on Friday, while natural-gas futures extended their losses into a sixth-consecutive session to end the week with a loss of more than 20%. Price action West Texas Intermediate ...
These 27 stocks can give you a more diversified portfolio than the S&P 500 — and that’s a key advantage right now
You probably already know that because of market-capitalization weighting, a broad index such as the S&P 500 SPX, -0.80% can be concentrated in a handful of stocks. Index funds are popular for goo...
Warren Buffett purchased more than 20 million shares of this stock in 2022. And it has a 133% return. But can that growth sustain?
“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes,” Warren Buffett once wrote wrote in a letter to shareholders. Great performance and stocks may seem...
Germany’s Dependence On Russian Gas Coincided With Drop In Wind Investment
Wind turbines are seen near the coal-fired power station Neurath of German energy giant RWE in … [+] Garzweiler, western Germany, on March 15, 2021. – On March 16, 2021, the group will pre...
Future Shock Is Here For The Electric Utility Industry
WESTMINSTER, CO – FEBRUARY 4 : Duane Highley, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission, poses … [+] for a portrait in front of the headquarter building in Westminster, Colorado on Thur...
How Bad Is Europe’s Energy Problem? Better Than You Think
MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM – JANUARY 03: A gas ring on a domestic stove powered by natural gas is … [+] seen alight on January 3. 2005, Manchester, England. Russia had decreased pressure i...
New England Risks Winter Blackouts as Gas Supplies Tighten
Listen to article (2 minutes) New England power producers are preparing for potential strain on the grid this winter as a surge in natural-gas demand abroad threatens to reduce supplies they need to g...
Higher Heating Bills Poised to Hit U.S. Households This Winter
High fuel prices have been a big driver of inflation, pumping up the cost of summer travel and air conditioning, and federal energy forecasters say that staying warm this winter will be more expensive...
Obama, Trump Energy Secretaries Agree On Everything Until One Goes Too Far
Dan Brouillette (left) was President Trump’s energy secretary from 2019-2021. Ernest Moniz served … [+] under President Obama from 2013-2017. The two men shared a stage Oct. 12, 2022 at Co...
African gas becomes a focus for EU countries trying to replace Russia supply
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new liquefied natural gas project off Africa’s western coast may only be 80% complete, but already the prospect of a new energy supplier has drawn visits from the leaders of Po...
PVC Prices Are Falling. Why Warren Buffett Should Be Worried.
One thing leads to the other. Rising interest rates pummel housing. Lumber prices fall, some 60% this year. And, notes energy research firm and investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt, PVC—the plastic th...
U.S. LNG Exports To France, Croatia, Poland Up More Than 1,000%
U.S. exports of natural gases, primarily in liquid form, have soared the last two years, including … [+] in the month of August. A great deal of that LNG is bound for Europe. ustradenumbers.com ...
Who’s Gouging Europe On Natural Gas Prices? Look To The Middle Man
Manuela Schwesig (3rd R), State Premier of the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and … [+] Markus Soeder (2nd L), State Premier of the southern federal state of Bavaria, visit a sit...
10 energy stocks that are analysts’ favorites as OPEC makes oil-production cuts
The OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries has agreed on a drastic cut to the global supply. The speculation has helped oil reverse its recent declines. And that means it’s time to take another look a...
PVC Piping Prices Are Dropping as Housing Market Weakens
Text size PVC piping is made from ethylene, a petroleum product that Occidental Petroleum produces. Dreamstime.com As rising interest rates interest rates pummel the housing market, the ripple effects...
Russian Oil Price Cap Could Be Biden’s Biggest Energy Folly Yet
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 08: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House … [+] March 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. During his remarks, Biden announced a full ban on...
U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines Nord Stream 1 & 2, Says Former Polish Defense Minister
A former Polish defense minister and current member of European parliament attributed to the United … [+] States the sabotage of two Russian natural gas pipelines, Nord Stream 1 and 2. Getty A f...
Opinion: Oil companies can’t just ‘drill baby drill’ at will. Here’s what it really takes to ramp up energy production.
As energy prices rage, President Biden and Republicans have urged companies to increase drilling to lower oil and gasoline prices from 14-year highs. But it’s not that simple. Even after permits are a...