(Bloomberg) — Oil prices around $80 a barrel are once again spurring a revival of shale drilling in America’s biggest oil field, where production is expected to return to pre-pandemic highs within weeks. Only this time, the surge is being driven by private operators, rather than the publicly traded companies that fueled the previous booms. […]
Read MoreOne of the big themes this year of the “reopening” trade has come from a generally expected increase in consumer activity in activities that were almost completely restricted in 2020 such as travel to take vacations. That generally implies consumer demand for airlines, hotel bookings, and resorts should also increase, which is typically good news […]
Read MoreBuy Price: $20.50 or better Sell Price: TradersPro Sell Signal SilverBow Resources, Inc., an oil and gas company, acquires and develops assets in the Eagle Ford shale located in South Texas. As of December 31, 2020, it had proved reserves of 1,106 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent. The company was formerly known as […]
Read MorePart of taking a smart, value-based approach to investing in the stock market involves keeping track of information on industry and economic trends that are likely to have broad residual impacts on market activity. One of the sectors that I think has a broad carryover effect on multiple other sectors in the economy is Energy, […]
Read MoreDifferent investors react in different ways to the price action that drives a stock from a low to high and back again. For growth investors, for example, a stock at or near historical highs usually means they’ll sit up and start trying to figure out how much further it could go up, while they discard […]
Read MoreSince the beginning of this year, the energy sector has rebounded strongly from the pandemic-driven pressures that had kept prices – particularly in crude oil – depressed throughout 2020. From a November 2020 low point at around $34, for example, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude more than doubled to an early July peak at around […]
Read MoreThrough most of the pandemic, one of the hardest-hit sectors in the market was the Energy sector. Global restrictions on social gatherings and shelter-in-place orders meant that demand for crude oil products collapsed to practically nothing. The story for 2021 has shifted, of course, as vaccinations led to dropping infections and hospitalizations that have allowed […]
Read MoreOne of the sectors that has seen an impressive rally since late 2020 is the Energy sector. As measured by the U.S. Energy iShares ETF (IYE), the sector has increased from a trend low point at the end of October by more than 100%. Much of that increase was driven initially by a push among […]
Read MorePart of taking a smart, value-based approach to investing in the stock market involves keeping track of information on industry and economic trends that are likely to have broad residual impacts on market activity. One of the sectors that I think has a broad carryover effect on multiple other sectors in the economy is Energy, […]
Read MoreIn the Energy sector, there are a lot of different industries to think about, with a wide range of types of businesses related to it. It’s easy to correlate Energy to crude oil, because that is the single commodity that most of the companies in the sector are tied to in one way or another; […]
Read MoreOver the years, I have come to consider the stock market as a reflection of investor’s emotions. That is because investor emotion is at least part of the reason that the stock market tends to anticipate news, good or bad, and then to price that anticipation into stocks. That emotion – driven by the kind […]
Read MoreBuy Price: $2.60 or better Sell Price: TradersPro Sell Signal Martin Midstream Partners L.P., together with its subsidiaries, engages in terminalling, processing, storage, and packaging of petroleum products and by-products primarily in the United States Gulf Coast region. The company’s Terminalling and Storage segment owns or operates 17 marine shore-based terminal facilities and 13 specialty […]
Read MoreA reopening economy in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world is generally giving analysts reasons to start pointing to stocks they believe are well-positioned for recoveries in consumer activities that have been hampered by pandemic-driven restrictions. One of the sectors that has been seeing a boost, particularly in the last couple […]
Read MoreSometimes there are forces that affect a sector or industry in such a way that it creates a storyline that extends into not merely weeks, or months, but years. These can be positive or negative, but one of the things that I find interesting as an analyst is to look for those threads and try […]
Read MorePart of taking a smart, value-based approach to investing in the stock market involves keeping track of information on industry and economic trends that are likely to have broad residual impacts on market activity. One of the sectors that I think has a broad carryover effect on multiple other sectors in the economy is Energy, […]
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