ThinkstockSince early March, Brent crude oil prices have fallen more than 13%, and conventional unleaded gasoline has come down 16% since early February. This could be just the beginning of sharply lower…
Investors and traders are on the lookout for fresh research ideas from Wall St. that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls each…
ThinkstockThe battle for what was once the integrated oil & gas company Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) took another turn this morning after the company said it has signed a deal to sell…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockWe cannot help but to notice just how active the activist investor community has been. Activist investors are literally influencing hundreds of billions of dollars of value in companies right now. The…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockSmall-cap independent oil and gas producer Sanchez Energy Corp. (NYSE: SN) this morning announced that it had purchased approximately 43,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford shale play in South Texas from…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockIn the wake of yesterday’s OPEC oil market report, we have the latest monthly report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) today. While the two differ somewhat in specifics, the general story…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockThe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released its March Oil Market Report this morning. The cartel did not change its forecast for global demand growth of 800,000 barrels a day to…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockYou have heard of all sorts of bubbles in the financial world. There are instances like the housing bubble, a bond bubble, the dot-com bubble, the tech bubble, the private equity bubble, and…
ThinkstockChina will lean on consumer spending to expand its economy. (Reuters) Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) faces more lawsuits over its initial public offering. (Reuters) The White House says it believes people should…
ThinkstockIntegrated oil company Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) has announced plans to complete its transformation into a pure-play energy exploration and production (E&P) company by shedding its remaining downstream assets (refining, marketing and…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockShare prices appreciated by at least 80% for most major crude oil refiners in 2012, a far better performance than turned in by the integrated oil companies, the oil services firms and,…
ThinkstockThe results are in from the Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS) 2013 Energy Summit, and investors who were interviewed and surveyed by the Swiss bank remain bullish on the energy sector for…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a mixed bag of data on the U.S. economy and mixed earnings results out this morning. In Europe, Germany’s retail sales fell sharply this…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Comerica Inc. (NYSE: CMA) cut to Underperform at Bernstein. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe stock market is mixed Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.27%, the Nasdaq down 0.35% and the S&P 500 up 0.13%. Today’s winners are a biopharmaceutical…
