XOP News and Press, SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Explor & Product From 01/05/23

Summary The oil & gas space struck gold in 2021 and 2022. A new narrative could be playing out with WTI tumbling to near multi-month lows. Devon Energy features a low valuation, no doubt, but momentum and price action might rule the day in the near term. Did Energy sto...

Summary If you're a dividend investor, don't just look at high dividend yields lest your returns are undermined by capital depreciation. Healthy yields in companies showing relative strength are optimal. Lack of O&G upstream capex makes E&P players relative outperformers. Ch...

Summary I expect traditional fossil fuel energy companies to continue to excel, rising to up to 30% of the S&P 500 in the upcoming years as technology stocks continue to shrink. After the most aggressive series of rate hikes in decades, inflation is finally moderating. Whether or no...

Summary For 40 years, steadily declining inflation and interest rates buoyed equity returns. That changed abruptly last year. Investors must now adjust expectations to a new macroeconomic and market landscape that will require a fresh mindset to reach long-term goals. By...

Summary Today’s high prices may well lead to tomorrow’s low prices, and tomorrow may arrive sooner than many feared. Asynchronous reopening is set to bedevil the global economy for at least another year. Broad housing market activity during much of 2022 suggests that w...

Summary Insurance is the only equity industry without a direct link with commodities that posted a positive return in 2022. Insurance stocks profit from higher rates. We expect interest rates (and inflation) to be higher for longer. Buy the SPDR S&P Insurance ETF to profit f...

Summary U.S. October production increased by 69 kb/d to 12,381 kb/d to a new post pandemic high. Production in October 2023 is forecast to be lower than in October 2022. The big production increase in conventional crude in August 2022 is due to the massive downward revision to LTO p...

Summary Oilfield services may outperform E&P. Small-cap oil equities should catch up with large-cap. The capital allocation may be shifting from onshore/short-cycle to offshore/long-cycle. As we are bidding farewell to 2022, I wanted to share some high-level thoughts o...

Summary All the positive sales and earnings forecasted are concentrated in the top 15% of all stocks that I monitor. In other words, institutional buying pressure is focused on fewer stocks than normal. Energy stocks are big winners in 2022. In addition to high energy prices, the buying...

Summary Much of Wall Street will be taking off this week. It will be a week filled with lots of economic readings. There will be no earnings and no Fed speak. By Ed Moya US Thin trading conditions could persist as much of Wall Street will be taking off th...