BlackRock's top strategist says Gulf sovereign wealth funds are rerouting trillions away from global markets, and the ripple effects on Treasuries, equities, and AI infrastructure could be bigger than most investors expect.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just told G20 finance chiefs the Strait of Hormuz will stop mattering to global oil within two years, but Iran is already mining the waterway and threatening to…
Thomas Richmond Jim Cramer called the September market open unholy, rattled off geopolitical chaos, and then named exactly one stock worth buying above $200. Whether the fundamentals behind that call survive the noise is…
Jim Cramer just called Chevron a winner at a 52-week high, but independent analysts and a prominent Venezuela skeptic see a critical gap between Chevron's five-year production promise and what the barrels…
Rich Duprey Chevron's CEO just flew to Caracas and committed billions to a deal that could reshape global oil markets, then turned around and delivered news that frustrated drivers everywhere will not want to…
Joel South Most retirees assume hitting a $68,400 annual income floor demands either a massive nest egg or risky high-yield instruments, but five ordinary dividend stocks across five sectors challenge both assumptions in ways…
Trump just claimed rights to more oil than exists beneath all 50 states combined, but the Gulf Coast refiners responsible for turning that crude into gasoline have a very different reaction than…
Iran and Venezuela just handed energy investors two completely opposite catalysts at the same time, and Chevron, Exxon, and Halliburton are reacting in real time as traders try to figure out which…
Venezuela sits on a staggering share of the world's proven oil reserves, and a new U.S. deal just handed American companies a major stake in them. But one energy expert says investors…
Fresh strikes between U.S. and Iranian forces have crude surging past $90, but the real question for oil investors is not what happened this morning. It is what happens to the narrow…
U.S. strikes on Iran sent oil surging over the weekend, and now traders are betting that two integrated giants respond identically to a crude spike, but their businesses tell a more complicated…
Venezuela sits on the world's largest proven oil reserves and ships barrels to U.S. refiners without crossing a single conflict-prone waterway, yet a former Chevron executive who knows the country's fields firsthand…
Thomas Richmond A quiet deal with Venezuela just handed American interests control over tens of billions of barrels of proven reserves, reshaping the global energy map overnight. But the real story is what it…
Chevron and PepsiCo both raised their dividends this year, but the forces threatening each payout could not be more different. One faces a commodity cycle, the other a slower and harder problem…
Venezuela is edging away from OPEC, U.S. companies are circling its vast untapped oil fields, and one American energy giant already has a foot in the door before the bidding even begins.
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