XLE has handed shareholders a stunning rally, but income investors buying in today are getting a very different deal than those who bought a year ago. The question is whether the fund's…
America's emergency oil cushion is draining at a pace not seen since the early 1980s, and drivers are quietly crossing a threshold that carries serious political consequences for the White House heading…
Wes Moss has raised his retirement happiness target. Moss said during the October 20 Ask An Advisor section of The Clark Howard Podcast that his updated research for The Retire Sooner Method…
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) reports third-quarter results on Oct. 30. A projected $4.5 billion refining boost runs into lower average crude prices, and this report will show which force…
Rich Duprey Trump claims the Iran war's oil surge is filling US coffers with hundreds of billions, and the export numbers from April tell a striking story. But what happened to those records by…
Treasury bills are paying rates that beat several household-name dividend stocks right now, but the retiree who chases that yield without reading the fine print may find their income cut in half…
Treasury yields have turned dividend investing into a minefield, but five mega-caps have quietly raised their payouts through every rate spike, recession, and patent cliff of the past four decades. The question…
When crude spiked past $110 and wiped a trillion dollars from tech valuations in a single session, the same geopolitical shock that lifted Exxon and Chevron near their 52-week highs also planted…
September's inflation report handed energy stocks a gift, but the same force lifting XLE is already working against the investors chasing it for protection.
The EIA sees oil sliding toward $79 a barrel by 2027, and income investors need to know whether Exxon's quarterly check survives the drop before crude gets there.
Oil prices crashed 14% last year, yet three energy giants kept raising their dividends anyway. The integrated business model behind that trick also explains why analysts see one of them as the…
VYM's trailing yield sits well below what a 10-year Treasury pays today, yet the fund keeps attracting billions in new assets. The reason comes down to what bonds cannot offer and what…
S&P 500 futures are basically flat before the open. The index’s futures sit near 7,817, up 0.1%, after a record-setting week. Oil is the main mover this morning. Brent crude is trading…
Exxon has handed investors a larger dividend check every year for 43 consecutive years, but sliding crude prices and a 61% quarterly free cash flow drop are now stress-testing the limits of…
Amazon and Meta are both slashing jobs while pouring record billions into AI, but the strategies behind their cuts reveal something unexpected about which company actually profits from replacing its own workers.
