KOL News and Press, VanEck Vectors Coal ETF From 12/03/20

VanEck announced today that it plans to close and liquidate one of its VanEck Vectors ETFs. On December 3, 2020, the Board of Trustees of VanEck Vectors ETF Trust approved the liquidation and dissolution of the following fund (the “Fund”): As the sponsor of VanEck ...

The Invesco Solar Portfolio ETF is up 123% year-to-date. This appears to be a case of election-driven hopes that are in danger of coming to an abrupt halt shortly. Even if Biden wins, the excitement seems overblown. Think back to coal stocks in 2016 for a similar example of trader...

Arch Resources ([[ARCH]] -7.3%) says it will terminate its proposed thermal asset joint venture with Peabody Energy ([[BTU]] -18.8%), after a U.S. District Court blocked the deal between the two biggest U.S. coal miners.Arch CEO Paul Lang says the company will pursue strategic alternatives fo...

Coal prices are spiking on growing demand from abroad and a rise in natural gas and uranium prices. Metallurgical coal producers such as ARCH have risen by double-digits since September began. Thermal coal producers such as CEIX and ARLP are trading at extremely low valuations but...

Shares of North American metallurgical coal producers are surging after Fastmarkets MB reported that seaborne premium prices rose sharply after Chinese market participants returned to the market and added impetus to spot trading activity. More news on: Teck Resources Limited, Warrior M...

Solar (NYSEARCA: TAN ) and wind power (NYSEARCA: FAN ) comprised the majority of new power generation in the world for the first time ever , accounting for more than two-thirds of new capacity constructed, according to data compiled by BloombergNEF. More news on: Invesco Solar Portfol...

One of the things that many environmentalists liked about the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic is that it reduced carbon emissions. After all, after the stay-at-home orders were issued and the economy was shut down, people were using much less fuel for either travel or other commerci...

BP ( BP -2.3% ) publishes its annual Statistical Review of World Energy , which says some aspects of global energy trends prior to the coronavirus pandemic had been " encouraging ." More news on: BP p.l.c., VanEck Vectors Coal ETF, Invesco Solar Portfolio ETF, Energy stocks news, N...

2020 has been a wild year in the energy sector of the commodities market. In late March, the price of natural gas fell to its lowest level since 1995 when it found at least a temporary bottom at $1.519 per MMBtu. In April, NYMEX crude oil futures fell to not only a new low below the 1986 bot...

"If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing." - Matt Haig Market commentators have been attempting to write the epitaph of coal for a while now and with good reason. Largely on account of the deleterious effect of coal on the environment, countries th...