RYE News and Press, Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Energy From 08/17/22

The energy sector led during the month of July, providing almost all of the positive performance due to a strong rally in natural gas prices. The heat wave from late June into early July in the lower Midwest U.S. killed cattle, quickly reducing supply. However, both cattle and hogs ra...

Long-term investors need to have a strategy they can stick with no matter what happens, a strategy that keeps them on an even keel. Investing is hard and determining your risk tolerance is far from an exact science. There are a lot of people these days who seem to want the market ...

Summit Midstream Partners continues to see its debt dwarf its market capitalization as its share price struggles to perform. The company continues to generate substantial DCF; however, it continues to struggle to pay down debt. EBITDA growth can generate stronger DCF growth given ...

The Russian war in Ukraine has had a massive impact on the European energy market, a result of which is runaway inflation across the continent. Nigeria’s substantial resource wealth and geographic proximity to Europe make it a very attractive partner for meeting the continent&#...

Oneok has a respectable portfolio of NGL assets well positioned in some of the highest margin markets in the country. The company's substantial spare capacity represents a low cost potential source of growth. We expect the company to maintain its dividend yield of just over 6%, wi...

The so-called Inflation Reduction Act is now almost a fact. The bill includes a 1% non-deductible excise tax on stock buybacks. Marathon Oil has been returning cash to its shareholders mainly via buybacks; one may reasonably expect the buybacks to slow down. My view is the opp...

Elevated inflation, slowing global economic growth expectations, and reduced central bank liquidity remain the key economic considerations. The policy interest rate divergence between the U.S. and Europe is likely to increase amid heightened recession risk in Europe. We expect mar...

Two economic reports from last week, attempting to measure essentially the same thing, reported results that were so different they could be about two different countries. The rising rate, rising dollar environment is intact. The 10 year Treasury rate is in a short-term downtrend but ...

The investment landscape has been much more difficult for most sustainable portfolios since the fourth quarter of last year. One thing that we know is that the sustainability challenges that these stocks are connected to haven’t gone away. If anything, the economic challeng...

It’s hard to believe that even after dramatically outperforming the broad stock market for almost two years now, energy stocks still trade at a massive discount. In that context, however, it’s not hard to understand why executives in the sector have been, and still remai...