It has been a brutal six months for United States Oil (NYSE: USO), a major exchange traded fund for oil, and United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), a major exchange traded fund for natural gas. Over the last six months, United States Oil has fallen by more than 50 percent (chart below). It is much […]
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Total Energy SA (NYSE: TOT) is a major oil and natural gas firm that is down for the last week, year, month, quarter, six months, and year of market action. For 2015, Total Energy SA is already down by 5 percent (chart below). The loss of its highly regarded chief executive officer has not helped […]
Jan
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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 […]
Jan
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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 […]
Jan
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2014 was another bull market year with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (NYSE: SPY) doing well. As with any time period, certain sectors did well with others disappointing. Oil and natural gas plunged, as did the exchange traded funds, United States Oil (NYSE: USO), and […]
Dec
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The carnage in the energy sector has been deep and wide with United States Oil (NYSE: USO), a major exchange traded fund for oil, and United States Natural Gas, (NYSE: UNG), a major exchange traded fund for natural gas, off significantly. While that has been the story for many individual oil and natural gas stocks, […]
Dec
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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 […]
Dec
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The short term pains for oil, natural gas, and coal highlight the long term appeal of the exchange traded funds for oil United States Oil (NYSE: USO), natural gas (NYSE: UNG), and coal Market Vectors Coal (NYSE: KOL). There are many reasons for the short term decline as there are factors that make the long […]
Dec
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Like many other major oil stocks, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is down for the last week, month, quarter and six months of market action. For the last 52 weeks, ConocoPhillips has dropped, too (chart below). Projections are that ConocoPhillips and other oil and natural gas stocks will continue to fall. The exchange traded fund for oil, […]
Nov
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It has been a bear quarter for ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), a major oil company. Energy prices have been weak due to lesser demand and greater supply. United States Oil (NYSE: USO), the exchange traded fund for oil, is down more than 18 percent for the last quarter of market action. Over that same period, ConocoPhillips […]
