Iran just shut the Strait of Hormuz, and the ripple effects stretch far beyond rising gas prices. Here is what the closure means for inflation, corporate profits, and every investor watching the…
Oil swung more than $40 a barrel in a single quarter, and two energy giants absorbed that whiplash in very different ways. Which approach holds up better when crude keeps sliding matters…
Oil just dropped more than 20% in a single month, yet the market keeps rewarding ExxonMobil with a premium valuation. The reason traces back to a two-year cash haul that most investors…
Chris MacDonald The US-Iran ceasefire is fracturing, Brent is climbing, and energy stocks are repricing fast. Whether this is a temporary spike or the beginning of a sustained oil shock will reshape the Fed's…
Goldman Sachs is warning that a collapse in Chinese oil demand may be only partly reversible, and the reason has less to do with the Strait of Hormuz than with what Chinese…
One blue chip quietly compounded dividends for 64 straight years while the other got kicked out of the Dow during a historic crash. A thousand dollars placed in each tells a surprisingly…
Shares of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY | OXY Price Prediction) are up 4% at midday Wednesday, trading at $53.90. The move puts Occidental well ahead of integrated peers ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) and Chevron (NYSE:CVX).…
The Number With oil now trading well below the $100 level (and seemingly poised to continue heading lower, after OPEC announced further production increases recently and recessionary concerns pick up), it’s unclear…
Dividend funds pulled in $24.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, their strongest opening quarter in four years, and a lot of that cash went looking for a boring place to…
Energy stocks just gave investors a buying window. After WTI crude spiked to $114.58 per barrel on April 7, on the Strait of Hormuz disruption, prices have cooled to $78.94 per barrel…
Crude oil has fallen sharply from its spring highs, yet many drivers are still paying far more at the pump than they were expecting. In a recent CNBC segment, Helima Croft, Head…
Savita Subramanian, Bank of America Securities’ head of US equity and quantitative strategy, took to CNBC this week with a simple message. Corporate earnings are “gangbusters”, and the trade you actually want…
On CNBC’s Squawk on the Street this morning, Jim Cramer looked at the June jobs data and told Carl Quintanilla he cannot square what he is reading with what he is seeing.…
Omor Ibne Ehsan The Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV) has turned into one of the best large-cap stories of 2026, trading near $218 with a 16% year-to-date gain and a 27% advance over the past year.…
Mario Gabelli built his closed-end fund around two sectors most investors overlook, and the strategy is drawing serious attention from income-focused investors.
