FTXN News and Press, First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF From 08/08/22

Elevated inflation, slowing global economic growth expectations, and reduced central bank liquidity remain the key economic considerations. The policy interest rate divergence between the U.S. and Europe is likely to increase amid heightened recession risk in Europe. We expect mar...

Two economic reports from last week, attempting to measure essentially the same thing, reported results that were so different they could be about two different countries. The rising rate, rising dollar environment is intact. The 10 year Treasury rate is in a short-term downtrend but ...

The investment landscape has been much more difficult for most sustainable portfolios since the fourth quarter of last year. One thing that we know is that the sustainability challenges that these stocks are connected to haven’t gone away. If anything, the economic challeng...

It’s hard to believe that even after dramatically outperforming the broad stock market for almost two years now, energy stocks still trade at a massive discount. In that context, however, it’s not hard to understand why executives in the sector have been, and still remai...

The necessary balance between reliable light oil cash flow and more volatile heavy oil cash flow will change for Baytex Energy with the addition of the Clearwater play. The superior Clearwater profitability also affects investment performance throughout the industry cycle. The Cle...

Chevron stock is trading at a 20% discount to its 52-week high of $182. The entire oil sector has fallen along with oil’s price over the last month. Nonetheless, it's all about the future, not the past, and the future looks bright for CVX, yet not everyone agrees. Earni...

Obsidian Energy has bounced nicely off recent lows. OBE trades at very low cash flow multiples and has a catalyst that could drive earnings on into next year. We think investors look for growth and income may find Obsidian Energy Ltd. attractive. All dollar figures in Canadian...

Since the beginning of Russia’s planned Nord Stream 1 maintenance period (from July 11 to 22), European gas storage stock change has dropped below historical averages. Today, Europe is adding significantly less gas to its storage than it has at this time over the past five year...

Thanks to these booming oil and gas prices, Pioneer Natural Resources gives investors the ability to grab a very high 10%+ dividend yield. Unlike some of their peers, their shareholder returns policy is heavily weighted towards dividends instead of share buybacks, something I prefer. ...

Despite being dragged down with most other asset classes in June’s selloff, resource equities have continued to exhibit remarkable resilience relative to broad equities, bonds and other real assets over the last year. Many resource companies - particularly in oil and gas explor...