At $160.49, ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) is a buy and at $196.12, Chevron (NYSE:CVX) is a hold. The two integrated majors have both ripped higher in 2026 on stronger production,…
ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM | XOM Price Prediction) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) both reported Q1 2026 earnings on May 1, 2026, and the earnings reports arrived in the middle of a volatile oil…
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth turned heads at the Milken Institute on May 4, telling the room that “we will start to see physical shortages” as commercial inventories, shadow-fleet tankers, and strategic reserves…
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 $80,610. Replacing that income with a portfolio, no employer required, is the question this article answers. The basic…
Investors are concerned about where the stock market is headed this year. While the S&P 500 has maintained upward momentum, the narrative has shifted toward significant sector dispersion. If you are worried…
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…
