Buffett’s Berkshire Might Have Bought More Occidental Stock After the Dip

A recent decline in Occidental Petroleum share price could have prompted Berkshire Hathaway to add to its large stake in the big energy company. Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK.A, BRK.B) holds 188.4 m...

Why Natural Gas Prices Quadrupled In Two Years

WILHELMSHAVEN, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 14: Workers construct a pipeline for transporting natural gas … [+] from the new, nearby liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal to the Etzel underground st...

Morgan Stanley says investors should consider this port in the market storm right now

The great British pound selloff, credited with exacerbating a global rout for markets last week, looks set to continue wreaking some havoc on Monday. Economic woes in Old Blighty are adding to the mar...

U.S. Natural Gas Production Sets A New Record, But Don’t Expect Relief On Your Heating Bills

The LNG Sakura liquefied natural gas tanker sails past a container terminal as it arrives at Tokyo … [+] Gas Co.’s Negishi LNG terminal in Yokohama, Japan, on Monday, May 21, 2018. Tokyo G...

These 20 stocks in the S&P skidded as much as 21.5% during another brutal week for the market

Another difficult week for U.S. stocks ended with shares of oil producers sliding and Ford Motor Co. tumbling further on concerns over supply shortages. The S&P 500 SPX, -1.72% fell 1.7% on Friday...

Stocks Are Sinking and Rates Are Rising. It’s Painful, But We’re Heading for Normal.

Stocks and bonds are tumbling. Housing has weakened. And I haven’t heard a word about nonfungible cartoon monkey tokens in maybe three months. Strategists are now turning to truly bizarre assets—two I...

David Tepper’s Favorite Energy Stocks

Summary The energy sector has the third-largest representation in Tepper’s equity portfolio. Energy Transfer and EQTEQT are among his top 10 holdings. David Tepper (Trades, Portfolio)’s Appaloos...

BP Stock Regains Some Ground After Fire at Refinery Leaves Two Dead

Text size BP is the operator at the Toledo, Ohio refinery where two workers died in an accident on Wednesday. Greame Robertson/Getty Images Shares of oil giant BP (ticker: BP) retraced some of their l...

A Country You’ve Never Heard Of Is Sitting On A Massive Offshore Field That Can Replace Russian Gas

This year has brought unrivaled chaos to the global natural gas market. Russia’s weaponization of its European gas pipelines has left the continent scrambling for energy alternatives, and their urgent...

Opinion: 4 reasons you should buy energy stocks right now if you are a long-term investor

This has been a painful year for stock market investors, as nothing seems to be working. There is an exception: Energy. It’s the best-performing sector and might still be a bargain for those who can b...

Biden’s ‘Kind Of Insane’ Energy Policies Have Created An Entirely Rational Investor Response

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 13: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers opening remarks during a plenary … [+] meeting with Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders and (L-R) Energy Secr...

Electric Bills Soar Across the Country as Winter Looms

U.S. utility customers, faced with some of their largest bills in years, are set to pay even more this winter as natural-gas prices continue to climb. Natural-gas prices have more than doubled this ye...

Opinion: Adobe’s stock got slammed for spending $20 billion on Figma. But it now owns a rare company.

Adobe beat revenue and profit expectations, and on the same day announced it would acquire a smaller but faster-growing rival in online design-collaboration tools. The stock market rewarded the compan...

Taking A Fling On FLNG As Europe Stocks Up On Natural Gas

Liquefied natural gas shipping companies continue to enjoy a brisk business transporting LNGLNG to Europe, which is building inventories of natural gas for the winter in the face of shutdowns of gas p...

Tentative Rail Strike Deal Could Avert New England Winter Energy Crisis

Rail oil tank cars transporting petroleum crude oil pass through Livingston, Montana heading west. … [+] (Photo by William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images The White Hou...

20 value stocks whose growth potential is overlooked by investors

After a years-long bull market in growth stocks, the beleaguered value strategy has outperformed this year, as rising interest rates apply pressure on equities. Below is a screen of large-cap value st...

Potential 41% Annualized Return In The Pipeline With Kinder Morgan Buy Write

Energy infrastructure company Kinder Morgan (KMI) has been a cash machine for us on 12 prior engagements writing puts and covered calls on the stock since 2014. It’s not an MLP, although the pipeline ...

Exxon Mobile and 3 Other Energy Stocks Whose Dividends Look Resilient

Many energy company’s stocks—and their dividends—took a big hit earlier in the pandemic, even those of large firms. The global economy contracted along with oil and gas prices, forcing many companies ...

‘Obligatory Rationing’—The Energy Nightmare Is Coming True

Natural gas NurPhoto via Getty Images The European energy fiasco is reaching a climax. As long feared, last Friday, the Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom announced that it is shutting down Nord Str...

Dividends for Tough Times: 4 Energy Stocks That Raised Payouts During Covid

Many energy company’s stocks—and their dividends—took a big hit earlier in the pandemic, even those of large firms. The global economy contracted along with oil and gas prices, forcing many companies ...

Why Natural Gas Won’t Hyper-Inflate in the U.S. as It Has in Europe

Text size Natural gas is flared off in the Permian Basin in Andrews, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Natural-gas prices soared 35% in Europe over the weekend, as Russia cut off flows from a key pipelin...

Russia to Keep Nord Stream Pipeline Shut, Citing Mechanical Problems

Russia indefinitely suspended natural gas flows to Europe via a key pipeline hours after the Group of Seven agreed to an oil price cap for Russian crude—two opposing blows exchanged between Moscow and...

Russia Tightens The Geopolitical Energy Screws On Germany And The EU

The natural gas storage facility operated by Astora GmbH & Co KG, one of the largest in Western … [+] Europe and formerly controlled by Gazprom Germania GmbH, in Rehden, Germany, on Tuesday,...

Global Energy Markets Enter Winter Of Discontent

LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 26: Protesters hold placards during a demonstration against rising energy … [+] prices outside Ofgem’s headquarters in Canary Wharf on August 26, 2022 in Lon...

Where Is the Stock Market Going? It Could Have a Messy Fall.

If 2022 were to end tomorrow, or the day after, it would enter the books as a dismal one for investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 13% year to date, the S&P 500 index is off 17%, and...

Buy Write On Green Energy Electric Company Offers 49-Day, 48% Annualized Return Potential

There are only two stock market sectors posting positive year-to-date total returns. Up 46.5%, energy is the big winner, but utilities are also higher by 6.2% since the start of 2022. We dive into uti...

Germany’s Energy Crisis Dispels Several Myths

Germany is undergoing an energy crisis now as severely reduced gas flows from Russia threaten to leave it with a cold, dark winter. Much of its problem is self-inflicted and demonstrates the perils of...

Europe’s Energy Crisis Won’t Be Over Anytime Soon, Experts Say

A man waves a European Union flag in front of the Romanian Parliament headquarters during a protest … [+] against government and corruption in the front of the Romanian Government headquarters i...

The EU Vows To Solve Energy Price Problem It Helped To Create

French President Emmanuel Macron (C,L) and Greek Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (C,R), flanked … [+] by Malta’s Prime Minister Robert Abela (L), European Commission President Ursula vo...

Europe’s Energy Crisis Threatens Glass Production

BERLIN—European businesses as diverse as car makers, bottle manufacturers and skyscraper builders—not to mention artisanal glassblowers—are preparing for a possible glass shortage if the loss of Russi...

Natural Gas Prices Are Soaring on Russian Supply Cuts. The West Is Holding Firm.

Russia has cut European Union–bound natural-gas exports to 20% of last year’s level. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Text size Stymied for the moment on Ukraine’s battlefield, Vladimir Putin is escalating h...

These dividend stocks can protect you as the Federal Reserve slows the economy

With Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell set to deliver an important speech Friday, investors may finally begin to take him at his word: The central bank is going to maintain a hawkish stance to co...