Tuesday, October 7, 2025
BHP Group (BHP) is returning a record amount of cash to investors as surging coal prices helped the world’s biggest miner deliver a 26% increase in annual profits. The company and its shareholders are grateful it hung on to some of its coal assets. That kept BHP’s cash profit climbing in the 2022 financial year, […]
Unusual options activity placed Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) into the spotlight last week. It turns out a massive options trade of 150,000 contracts traded in a spread, with about $16 million of capital required. This one trade accounted for nearly half the options traded on the day. It appears the position may be […]
Forget oil—the real money is in natural gas. Or at least that’s the message coming from a pioneer of the U.S. shale revolution, Chesapeake Energy (CHK). From Prince to Pauper to Prince Again? Once upon a time—when its stock was valued at more than $35 billion and its CEO, Aubrey McClendon, had the biggest pay […]
I continue to love the sector Wall Street seems to hate: energy. Analysts are saying oil has peaked and bad times are directly ahead for the sector. I believe that oil markets are more fragile than the recent price decline might signal. The same factors that sent energy prices higher over the past year remain […]
At the moment the oil market at the moment is much like the famous quote from the beginning of “A Tale of Two Cities.” It is a tale of two markets: the futures market for oil (controlled by Wall Street) and the physical market, which reflects the real-world demand for oil. Both factor in many […]
Crude oil prices have dropped significantly since early June, and energy stock prices have matched or exceeded the decline. Yet energy commodity prices remain very high, and the supply/demand imbalances point towards higher prices later in the year. Now is the time to invest in all three of the energy subsectors. Here’s my favorite way […]
There was quite a bit of unusual options action in the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) last week. Energy has been in the spotlight with the price of crude oil plunging in recent days. However, a large ratio call spread in XLE suggests that energy stocks may have more room to rise this year. […]
The ongoing global oil shortage has triggered President Joe Biden’s call to shale producers to spend more of their profits on increasing output. But shale firms have been under pressure from shareholders for many years to focus on returns rather than production growth, this has been one of many contributors to the global oil shortage. […]
There has been only one bright spot in what’s turning out to be an annus horribilis for U.S. stocks – the energy sector. The S&P 500 has fallen into a bear market, down more than 20% this year. The benchmark index is on pace for one its worst opening six months since 1970. Historically, there […]
Soaring fuel prices have boosted inflation to a year-over-year increase of 8.6%, the highest level since 1981! And there is more to come: the lack of refining capacity is expected to drive up U.S. gasoline prices by more than a dollar, to $6 a gallon by August as oil and oil related products continue to […]
