First, there was the TACO trade (Trump Always Chickens Out) amid rising tariff fears in the months and quarters that followed Liberation Day. These days, there’s growing chatter about the so-called NACHO…
Bloomberg’s Stuart Livingstone-Wallace delivered a line worth pausing on this week. Responding to a question about whether a U.S. naval posture was choking off Iranian crude flows, he told viewers: “We’ve had…
Chevron (NYSE:CVX | CVX Price Prediction) has rallied hard off late-2025 lows, riding a sharp move in WTI crude from $60.04/bbl in January to $100.32/bbl by April. After a 39.44% one-year gain,…
An ETF has done something unusual for a leveraged commodity fund. It has actually rewarded holders. ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil (NYSEARCA:UCO) is up 130% year to date, the kind of move…
BP (NYSE:BP | BP Price Prediction) just received a rare same-day double upgrade from Wall Street. Argus moved BP stock to Buy from Hold, and RBC Capital lifted the stock to Outperform…
Geopolitical conditions heavily shape oil prices. When conflict erupts near oil-producing regions, prices spike, and naturally, when peace prevails, they fall. Several key mechanisms explain this relationship. Wars embed a “geopolitical risk…
Reports surfaced at the beginning of this month that BP (NYSE: BP | BP Price Prediction) is weighing a sale of all or part of its U.K. North Sea operations, potentially worth…
An $83,400 annual paycheck sits comfortably above the U.S. median household income of roughly $83,730. Replacing that income with a portfolio, no employer required, is the question this article answers. The basic…
Investors are watching the stock market closely this year. The S&P 500 has gained roughly 11% through mid-September, but the gains have not been evenly distributed. For those navigating economic uncertainty, focusing…
One of the topics from CNBC’s Halftime Report show on May 1, 2026 was that integrated oil majors, like Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) and Chevron (NYSE:CVX), have spent a…
The “Dogs of the Dow” is a well-known strategy first published in 1991 by Michael O’Higgins. The plan aims to maximize investment returns by purchasing the 10 highest-yielding dividend stocks in the…
The hosts of The Best One Yet (TBOY) podcast have been arguing that the macro baton is changing hands. After interest rates dominated the economy for the past four years following the…
WTI crude went from $57.97 a barrel in December 2025 to over $100 today. That kind of move hands a windfall to oil producers and gives their shareholders motion sickness in roughly…
The Marketplace Morning Report segment titled “Chipping away at Nvidia’s chip dominance” carried a market call that pulled focus from semiconductors to crude. The hosts noted Brent crude oil prices spiked to…
Warren Buffett stepped down as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) on December 31, 2025, after six decades leading the conglomerate he transformed from a struggling textile mill into a $1…
