CNOOC Ltd (NYSE: CEO) is a major Chinese oil company that offers a dividend yield and a profit margin that is more than twice that the average for a member of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (NYSE: SPY). While that is certainly appealing, making CNOOC Ltd very attractive now is that it is trading […]

United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), the main exchange traded fund for natural gas, is up for the week.  Cold weather has the demand for natural gas increasing, which takes the share price of United States Natural Gas higher.  That is needed as United States Natural Gas is down for the last month, quarter, six […]

While it has been a bull market for stocks, it has bearish for energy stocks such as BP (NYSE: BP), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), and many others. The main exchange traded fund for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO), is down more than 50 percent for the last six months of market action […]

For those looking for bullish indicators in the energy sector, BP BPC (NYSE: BP) just announced plans to increase oil production by 900,000 barrels a day by 2020. BP PLC is the second largest oil company, Big Oil in every way with operations around the world. Like so many others in the oil and natural […]

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) is continuing to expand in areas such as Africa and the Arctic, among others, even with the falling price of oil and natural gas. The largest oil and natural gas firm in the world, Royal Dutch Shell is “Big Oil” by every meaning. But its stock price is not as […]

While Big Oil stocks like Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) should be excellent long term investments despite the recent decline in the price of oil, there are sectors that do well thanks to lower energy costs. Sailing high among those is the global shipping industry. Few sectors suffered like shipping during The Great […]

While Big Oil stocks like Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) should reward long term investors, the short term performance has been painful.  That is much the same for the stock markets overall as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (NYSE: SPY) have been doing […]

BP PLC (NYSE: BP), the second largest energy company in Europe, is down for the last week, month, quarter, six months, and year of market action. For 2014, BP PLC is down by nearly 17 percent. This is the same with other oil and natural gas firms like Chevron (NYSE: CVX), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), and […]

Chevron (NYSE: CVX) is like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) in that it is a “Big Oil” company that has not spun off units like so many others. As a result, Chevron, again like ExxonMobil, has not fallen in recent stock market action like so many other energy companies. Chevron is down for the last week, month, […]

Legendary investor Warren Buffett has done very well over the decades buying shares of blue chip companies such as American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) that were down in the short term due to temporary problems. That is a major reason why “The Oracle of Omaha” is worth of $50 billion! That is […]