IXC News and Press, iShares Global Energy From 02/06/22

We have already seen quite a bit of volatility in the early stages of 2022. The good news is, the market has bounced back quickly after hitting correction territory (S&P 500). Inflation remains top of mind, so I will explore a few ways investors can stay ahead of it. Fixed-inc...

Companies in the oil fields of Texas, New Mexico and North Dakota have tapped many of their best wells, resulting in limited inventory that suggests the era in which U.S. shale companies could flood the world with oil is receding, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. If the largest U....

The goal of the DDM is to quickly and easily utilize available resources of an asset to understand what the intrinsic value of that asset is based on certain market and company expectations. If the required return component of the equation rises without expectations of higher company ...

Energy, while being up huge since late 2020, is still attractive. Cheap relative valuations, suddenly strong fundamentals, and still favorable sentiment make the space ripe for more gains over the next year. Investors wavering on ESG and chasing gains in fossil fuels is another ta...

Many folks are shocked at the magnitude of the recent correction and are baffled why fundamentally focused growth stocks were swept up. When the stock market corrects moderately, fundamentally superior stocks can be resilient. But when the correction is 10% or more, essentially nothing wo...

Despite OPEC and its allies’ (aka OPEC+) plans to raise their oil production output target beginning in February, rising demand for oil and natural gas in the recovering global economy should accelerate the performance of energy companies. Therefore, we think dividend-paying ETFs Energ...

IXC invests in global energy stocks. The fund's energy investments should outperform when inflation is high while its international stocks should outperform when the U.S. economy stagnates. An overview of the fund follows. For further details see: IXC: Simple, Cheap, Str...

The recent rally in energy prices has improved investor sentiment for midstream assets, even though US oil production remains well below pre-pandemic levels. Natural gas is expected to be a major growth driver for the midstream sector in 2022, and the current supply shortfall makes th...

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...