IYE News and Press, iShares U.S. Energy From 11/08/21

While gold has bounced, rallying 4% from the fall low, it remains stuck in a range, between $1,750 an $1,850 an ounce. Since the early spring gold’s correlation with U.S. equities has been around 0.4, well above the levels that prevailed last summer. While rising adaptation...

Well, the world economy is slowing and a large part of that is because of China. One of the shock effects, I guess, from the pandemic is a number of supply issues have arisen. The dollar is slightly overvalued. We’ve had an increase in the current account deficit. For...

The major US equity indices moved in concert, but the big disappointment so far this year has been small caps. Energy is clearly where the action is this year. After spending years at the bottom of the tables, Natural Gas, Gasoline, and Crude Oil now lead the pack. For furth...

The Biden administration is expected within days to propose requirements for plugging methane leaks at oil and gas wells, but the crackdown likely will stop short of an outright ban on flaring, Bloomberg reports. The Environmental Protection Agency rules would seek to strengthen existing mand...

Soaring natural gas prices are rippling through global energy markets - and other economic sectors from factories to utilities. An unprecedented combination of factors is roiling world energy markets, rekindling the memories of the 1970s energy crisis and complicating an already uncer...

Industrial production fell 1.3 percent in September. Capacity utilization fell a full percentage point to 75.2 percent from 76.2 percent in August and is below the February 2020 level of 76.3 percent. Industrial output showed broad weakness in September. For further details ...

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...