When crude blew through $100 on the Hormuz disruption, two oil ETFs both surged, but for completely different reasons, and only one of them can hold its gains if prices stay elevated.
West Texas Intermediate crude opened 2026 near $57 a barrel and spiked to almost $115 on April 7 after the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to tanker traffic. Brent followed a parallel…
XOP and OIH both tap the energy sector, but they bet on completely different forces inside it, and backing the wrong one at the wrong moment in the cycle has historically cost…
If you put $10,000 into the VanEck Oil Services ETF (NYSEARCA:OIH) at the closing bell on December 31, 2025, you were sitting on roughly $15,100 five months later. The fund opened the…
WTI crude oil is trading near $105 per barrel, a level that was unthinkable just a few months ago when prices bottomed near $57 late last year. The catalyst is geopolitical: disruptions…
WTI crude oil has surged from $55.44 in mid-December 2025 to nearly $93 in mid-March 2026, a recovery that has driven energy equities sharply higher. Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLE) is…
Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil surged from $55.44 a barrel in mid-December 2025 to $94.65 as of March 9, and the oil services sector is moving with it. On Tuesday, Baker…
The VanEck Oil Services ETF (NYSEARCA:OIH) gives energy investors broad exposure to the drilling cycle without picking individual stocks in one of the market’s most volatile corners. Right now, that exposure matters.…
Oil services stocks have climbed sharply since late December, with the VanEck Oil Services ETF (NYSEARCA:OIH) up roughly 18% YTD. Investors watching this concentrated energy play should focus on two dynamics: crude…
Michael Williams It seems impossible to think that a commodity price could trade below zero. Particularly when you are talking about oil, which still powers most of the world’s transportation at this time. While…
It turns out that those temporary inflation fears that pop up from time to time get a reprieve every time the price of oil tanks.
Oil stocks are down and out in 2019, but there are seven of the biggest names in oil and gas that analysts on Wall Street now see massive upside in for value…
Just when it looked as if crude oil prices were going to pull back, suddenly a one-day surge has taken oil back above $60 per barrel.
One sector that had been a perpetual underperformer of the great bull market has been the energy sector. But times have changed.
Reported cuts in world crude oil production and encouraging words on the U.S.-China trade talks have overcome significant increases in U.S. petroleum inventories to keep prices about 2% above last night's closing…
