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A Berkshire Hathaway Bright Spot: Energy. Here Are the Numbers.
Warren Buffett likes energy. Berkshire Hathaway now owns some $58 billion of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum securities. It isn’t Berkshire’s largest holding; that would be insurance, led by auto ins...
Oil Prices Could Jump in December. Energy Stocks Should Get a Jolt.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...