Oil

Oil Price and Inflation: Predicting Equity Trends

Oil Price and Inflation: Predicting Equity Trends

One of the more important aspects to understand about the market is the correlation between asset classes. A significant correlation I’m seeing right now is between crude oil and the rate of inflation or, more specifically, interest rates. The reason I’m bringing this to your attention is because people are struggling to figure out when […]

These Oilfield Services Stocks are Booming

These Oilfield Services Stocks are Booming

The energy sector is one that keeps rewarding its investors. For example, let’s look at the so-called “Big Three” oil services companies: Halliburton (HAL), Baker Hughes (BKR) and SLB (SLB)—formerly Schlumberger. In 2022, these firms registered their most profitable 12 months since the heyday of the U.S. shale boom, reporting an aggregate net income of […]

An Oil Stock Set to Explode

An Oil Stock Set to Explode

Oil prices likely aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Not with all the geopolitical pieces at play. There’s 1 oil stock in particular that recently broke out of a 8 year consolidation. It’s pulled back to the support lines twice and recently pulled back this past week. I can see this stock exploding over the next […]

Record Dividends are Energizing These Oil Majors

Record Dividends are Energizing These Oil Majors

It’s a good time to be an investor that focuses on dividends. According to the asset management company Janus Henderson, investors enjoyed a record haul for global dividends in the third quarter. Total global payouts hit $415.9 billion in the third quarter of 2022. The seven percent rise from the same period a year ago […]

How to Play the White House’s New Oil Price Floor

How to Play the White House’s New Oil Price Floor

To help hold down fuel and energy prices, the Biden administration has been selling oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), to the tune of three million barrels per week since the start of the year. Now, with the SPR at its lowest level since the 1980s, the administration’s plan to refill the reserve […]

What’s The Story With This XOM Block Trade

What’s The Story With This XOM Block Trade

With energy markets being highly volatile this year, it’s not a surprise to see large block trades occur in big energy companies.  Oil and gas giant, Exxon Mobil (XOM), tends to have plenty of options volume on a regular basis. However, on a busy day last week, it traded nearly twice the amount of average […]

Oil Dividends Gusher Continues

Oil Dividends Gusher Continues

On August 24, we had confirmation of what I’ve been saying for a while now: energy is the place to invest if you’re looking for dividends, specifically oil dividends. As Reuters reports: “Energy companies reaping record profits from soaring oil and gas prices have helped global dividend payments to shareholders soar above pre-pandemic levels and […]

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This Shale Pioneer Refocusing on Natural Gas

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 […]