IXC News and Press, iShares Global Energy From 10/17/21

IXC invests in a concentrated portfolio of energy stocks. While energy stocks are not particularly favorable from a political or general sentiment standpoint, implied returns are strong. It will be decades before we can "replace" (in any significant way) non-renewables. In the mea...

Wall Street still remains upbeat despite a growing energy crisis that threatens the economic recovery, widespread price increases, and mixed economic data. If energy costs seem poised to head much higher, the unbalanced global economic recovery could dent risk appetite and lead to som...

Investors are still being challenged to reconcile high equity valuations with slowing growth, tighter monetary policy and upcoming fiscal drag. Global equities have retreated somewhat from peak levels recorded during since early September but the declines in most sectors have been mod...

While renewables like wind and solar power can help meet much of that new demand, the intermittent nature of renewables make it harder to fill the baseload generation gap. Battery storage technologies are not yet mature enough to be deployed today at such scale to back up wind and sol...

Inflation is here, and it is going to stick around for a while. If interest rates are going up, tech/REITs are the losers, while energy/financials will be the winners. If interest rates are going lower, the opposite is true. For the broader market, a rise in interest rates will ha...

Global equities rose through most of the third quarter but gave up most of their gains in a volatile September. As the forces driving stock returns rapidly change in our COVID-scarred world, we believe active managers can help investors effectively navigate the recovery’s uncer...

With the bond market reacting to the announcement by selling off sharply, yields look to be trying to now price in inflation. The futures curve itself remains in state of backwardation, a situation whereby the prices of the shorter-dated contracts exceed the longer-dated contracts. ...

Taking a look at how the expected Q3 ’21 sector revenue growth rates have changed since mid-August ’21 or the unofficial end of Q2 ’21 earnings season. Per Bespoke’s research, the S&P 500 has now reached “extremely oversold” levels, worse ...

Most of the market “data” everyone obsesses about is just noise, especially when it comes to economic data. We just finished another quarter during which a lot of things were supposedly newsworthy but somehow produced almost nothing in the way of major market movements. ...

Executives at U.S. fracking companies are worried that coming vaccine mandates will exacerbate an already serious labor shortage at a time of rising oil and gas prices, the Wall Street Journal reports. Oilfield service companies say many of their workers in U.S. shale regions are unvaccinated...