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 […]

Not only is ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), the world’s largest oil and natural gas entity, trading at its 52-week low, it is substantially below what legendary investor Warren Buffett paid for his shares. ExxonMobil is down for the last week, month, quarter, six months, and year of market action (chart below). Over the last six months […]

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 […]

Mohammed Islam is a 17-year old schoolboy in New York City who claimed he made $72 million dollars trading stocks and other securities during recess at school. His story, based on a “life-long passion” for trading, received a great deal of media attention in New York magazine and other outlets. Of little surprise to anyone […]

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 […]