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The U.S. and South Korea reached a $200 billion deal to build an Alaska natural gas pipeline and eight large-scale nuclear reactors.

You hold ExxonMobil (XOM) alongside index funds, and in the last five sessions, the stock rose 2.7% as the S&P 500 fell 1.0%. You already own the market's risk through those funds, so a large ExxonMobil position is either more of it or an offset. Is ExxonMobil stock increasing your market risk.

WTI crude above $90 per barrel supports XOM's upstream growth, backed by low-cost Permian production and multiple oil and gas discoveries in Guyana.

The worry for ExxonMobil (XOM) holders is that its refineries stop earning high margins. Management said in late July that the Strait closure keeps about 3 million barrels a day of refining capacity off the market. The second quarter alone supplied $14.5 billion of the $32.8 billion ExxonMobil earned over the last twelve months. How much of that profit rests on refining, and what would you lose if its margins fell back.

ConocoPhillips and EOG Resources both promise generous shareholder returns, but one of them blinked the last time crude collapsed, and a retiree counting on that quarterly check needs to know which one.

A prolonged Iran war is creating multiple profit channels across energy, including higher crude prices, record refining margins, LNG shortages and extreme shipping costs.

In the past few days, investors have focused on ConocoPhillips ahead of its upcoming earnings report, amid expectations for higher earnings per share and revenue than the prior year and a current Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold). An interesting angle is that ConocoPhillips is trading on a lower forward P/E ratio than its industry peers, which some analysts interpret as possible undervaluation even as estimates edge higher. With anticipation of stronger earnings now in focus, we’ll explore how this...

Oil supply disruptions from the Iran conflict have driven crude prices above $100, fueling gains of 45% to 69% YTD in energy ETFs XOP, IEO, and CRAK.

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Canada’s oil patch is experiencing another major M&A boom, with more than $30 billion in deals so far in 2026 and activity potentially surpassing the $53 billion recorded in 2017.

EOG Resources (EOG) has gained about 25% over the past year. The company pays a growing dividend and keeps buying back stock, so each remaining share owns a little more of the business every year. Over the last three years, though, that has not made the earnings behind your shares bigger. It has made them shrink more slowly.

XOM's strong cash generation is funding growth investments and shareholder returns while supporting its 2030 earnings and cash-flow targets.

ConocoPhillips (COP) closed the most recent trading day at $125.27, moving 1.77% from the previous trading session.

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The ticker says energy, but the fund's holdings tell a much narrower story than most investors expect before they buy in.

The purchase — the first by a major airline — confounded observers in the airline and oil industries.

XOM's advantaged assets, strong crude prices and elevated refining margins support its production and refining outlook.

When it comes to game-changing catalysts, consider relative size, not just dollar figures alone.

WTI near $100 and low-cost production in the Permian and Guyana could support XOM's earnings as drilling and AI boost output efficiency.

A 63-year-old mineral owner collects royalty checks while another company drills his wells, but filing for Social Security early turns that seemingly passive income into a high-stakes question about which dollars actually count against him.

A large energy stock is running hot on real operational strength, forcing investors to decide if the ticket price for this momentum is already too high.

In the closing of the recent trading day, ConocoPhillips (COP) stood at $132.54, denoting a -6.15% move from the preceding trading day.

A 15-year scorecard just revealed how badly active dividend fund managers fared against a passive benchmark, and the results raise a pointed question about whether the most popular dividend ETF belongs in your portfolio right now.

Chevron just posted its strongest downstream quarter in years while quietly signing a power deal with Microsoft that management calls a repeatable model independent of oil prices. The question is whether Wall Street has already priced in the transformation or whether the bigger move is still ahead.

Crude prices retreated Wednesday and the pain landed squarely on exploration and production names, skipping refiners and midstream entirely. Here is why that mechanical link turned a commodity move into a sector-wide shakeout for some of the biggest names in the energy patch.

ExxonMobil (XOM) stock has gained about 52% over the past year and now trades right at the top of its 52-week range. Anyone buying here is paying for something still ahead. The clearest candidate sits offshore Guyana, where the company has just finished earning back what it put in.

Trump officials say the oil-market disruption is temporary, but Chevron’s Mike Wirth and others warn global supplies are running low, with no respite in sight.

Oil futures have been rising, but recently hit a peak. ConocoPhillips reported strong Q2 earnings on Aug. 6, and COP stock may be fairly valued. However, short-put plays are attractive to value investors.

The 750-mile pipeline carries crude from eastern Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, avoiding shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Valero Energy stocks surged to annual highs as Brent crude prices rallied past $101 a barrel on Wednesday.

ExxonMobil (XOM) carries the highest earnings multiple in its peer group at 20.5 times, and it is not the best business in that group. Its operating margin ranks fourth of six, and its revenue growth ranks fourth of six as well. The premium is paying for something the standalone refiners don't get credit for; MPC and VLO trade at 13.4x and 15.6x, so it's likely the combination of upstream stability and downstream optionality that's priced in, not refining margins alone.

A CNBC analysis found Trump's 9 largest energy positions rose between $1.5M and $4.4M in the first six months of fighting

Generating cash is essential for any business, but not all cash-rich companies are great investments. Some produce plenty of cash but fail to allocate it effectively, leading to missed opportunities.

Chevron has surged more than 42% this year and is brushing against a 52-week high, but the real question is whether the fundamentals driving that run can hold at these prices or whether the easy money is already gone.

Shares of major U. S. energy companies moved higher in premarket trading on Tuesday as crude oil prices extended their gains amid concerns about potential disruption to Middle East energy supplies.

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures fell early Tuesday, kicking off a shortened trading week as Wall Street monitored the U.S.-Iran conflict alongside rising trade tensions between Canada and the U.S. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.8% by 05:30 ET (09:30 GMT). S&P 500 futures fell 0.3% and Nasdaq-100 futures slipped 0.1%. U.S. markets were closed Monday for Labor Day.

Investing.com -- Shares of major U.S. energy companies gained in premarket trading Tuesday, tracking a rise in oil prices after Iran warned that Gulf oil and gas infrastructure could be targeted in retaliation for attacks on its own assets.

Chevron's patience is paying big dividends.

Years of political risk may finally deliver unusual economics

Pfizer, GitLab, and Conoco Phillips shares surged to 52-week highs on Wednesday amid a series of positive company catalysts and optimistic Wall Street coverage.

Other oil-and-gas companies, including Italian giant ENI and smaller U.S. players Primavera and Aspect Holdings, signed production deals as well.

Jim Cramer called the September market open unholy, rattled off geopolitical chaos, and then named exactly one stock worth buying above $200. Whether the fundamentals behind that call survive the noise is a harder question than it looks.

ConocoPhillips has followed the market’s trajectory closely, rising in tandem with the S&P 500 over the past six months. The stock has climbed by 15.3% to $136.36 per share while the index has gained 11.8%.

Sept 2 (Reuters) - Chevron said on Wednesday it had agreed with Venezuela on updated terms for its joint ventures in the country and plans to invest more than $7 billion over the next five years,

Chevron is expected to announce an expansion of its Venezuelan operations on Wednesday, hours after the country's parliament approved handing Washington control of a fifth of its oil reserves and as US Energy Secretary Chris Wright arrives to sign the agreement.View on euronews

Energy ETFs could benefit as the U.S.-Venezuela oil deal drives long-term investment in Venezuela's oil infrastructure.

The 5% jump in U.S. crude oil prices today is having some of the familiar effects we've seen in recent months across the market when tensions build in the Middle East. Winners largely are coming from the energy sector, which is the best performing group in the S&P 500 today.

Investing.com -- Goldman Sachs updated its U.S. and European conviction lists for September, adding several new names as it refreshed its highest-conviction ideas heading into the autumn.

As ConocoPhillips has outperformed relative to the Dow over the past year, Wall Street analysts maintain a strongly optimistic outlook on the stock’s prospects.