A third US carrier is reportedly heading to the Middle East and China just cut off fuel exports, hitting oil markets with two shocks at once. Whether the price spike holds or…
Refining stocks are breaking away from the integrated oil majors, and the gap places the bid directly on fuel margins. Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC | MPC Price Prediction) stock has risen 5% to…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading higher after the bulls charged early Wednesday after the August CPE inflation report came in better than expected. But by the close, the tech-heavy Nasdaq was…
The Senate came within seven votes of banning congressional stock trading, but a clause with nothing to do with stocks may have killed the whole effort. Here is what actually happened and…
Oil markets are operating with little room for error. West Texas Intermediate crude trades above $91 a barrel this morning, while the Iran conflict, disrupted shipping, and tight diesel supplies continue putting…
American households are already feeling the squeeze from higher energy costs. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported residential electricity prices were 4.9% higher in July than a year earlier, while the agency’s…
Chevron and ExxonMobil both carry Dividend Aristocrat status and record cash flows, but for a retiree counting on oil income through the next commodity bust, one of them carries a hidden risk…
Caterpillar just hit $20 billion in quarterly sales for the first time ever, while Exxon pumped out $23.6 billion in operating cash flow. Both companies raised their dividends, but their very different…
The Strait of Hormuz is closer to closed than open, yet crude just fell and Exxon barely stirred. Understanding that contradiction reveals exactly how much upside the market is leaving on the…
Omor Ibne Ehsan The ticker says energy, but the fund's holdings tell a much narrower story than most investors expect before they buy in.
Gasoline and diesel prices were already moving higher before a floodwater-overwhelmed pump forced Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) to keep its Joliet, Ill., refinery offline. This is critical because fuel…
Both oil giants raised their dividends again this year and carry decades-long growth streaks, but when crude craters, only one of them has the balance sheet to keep writing that check without…
Retirees chasing a simple $500 monthly check from VYM run straight into a gap between how yields are calculated and how cash actually lands in your account, and the math gets uncomfortable…
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) is moving toward a return to a country it walked away from nearly two decades ago. The Wall Street Journal reported on September 16, 2026…
US retail diesel prices hit a record this week, and Washington is openly debating a tool it has never used before: an export ban on a refined petroleum product. The reported national…
