IXC News and Press, iShares Global Energy From 12/28/21

Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, discusses his thoughts on the top themes to watch going into 2022. The world economy came into 2021 like a car going 200 miles an hour, which fueled by the biggest stimulus we'd gotten since World War II. The Fed is sort of the cause of the uncertainty ...

We have seen crypto disruption expand across the financial system and expect this to continue. Inflation pressures may linger through 2022 and pose a risk of spiraling into a more persistent economic factor. Historically in these market environments, real assets—including n...

Although a federal judge overrode the Biden Administration’s ban on drilling on federal land, Biden’s advisors remain hostile to energy independence, so energy production within the U.S. has ebbed in 2021. The bears are insinuating that if smart money is selling, a stock...

New therapies to prevent serious illness are promising but we should expect a focus on COVID and a return to normal life to continue in 2022. The seized gears of the supply chain caused many to speculate that the world would move manufacturing away from China or even onshore productio...

Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels is harder to reduce than most people seem to realize. We can identify five separate periods of oil supply/demand fundamentals. A look into how oil companies are managing their capital now. An update on Fed policy and overall defensive positi...

2021 was a great year for stocks, munis had some blips. While a new calendar year approaches, a lot of the same attributes exist that could keep that going. We have had some volatility along the way, but dips in the 3-5% range have typically been bought up quickly. Last week's market ...

The Biden administration has ordered an immediate end to federal support for new coal, oil and gas projects overseas, as detailed in a cable reportedly sent late last week to U.S. embassies. in a major policy shift designed to fight climate change and accelerate the use of renewable energy. E...

Hydrogen is expected to play a key role in the decarbonisation of the energy system, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors such as industry, road freight, shipping and aviation. The demand for hydrogen is likely to be met through the production of both blue and green hydrogen, which t...

I am not as sanguine about inflation as the US Federal Reserve: I expect it will be higher than the Fed forecasts, but I still think inflation will decline next year and beyond. In a sense, I believe inflation will revert to a pre-pandemic normal, while those who expect inflation to g...

The October reading of the Consumer Price Index-the most widely used gauge of inflationary pressure in an economy-registered the biggest monthly increase in over 13 years. While employment has recovered from the depths of April 2020, we are still 7.6 million workers short of the pre-p...