Alex Kimani

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• Oil Majors Expected To Post Strong Earnings Next Week

  Published 30 January 2022 | viewed 8,830 times

  It's early innings in the current earnings season, with just 4% of S&P 500 companies having reported fourth-quarter 2021 earnings. According to FactSet data, 76%…

• Has The Oil Market Flipped Into Surplus Territory?

  Published 26 January 2022 | viewed 25,898 times

  The energy sector has continued to defy the broad market selloff in the new year, with seven of Tuesday's top eight gainers on the S&P…

• Offshore Oil Is Making A Comeback As Demand Returns

  Published 25 January 2022 | viewed 6,384 times

  The oil market crash of 2020 was brutal on major oil producers, forcing global oil and gas companies to cut capex by $100B, or roughly…

• Wall Street’s Favorite Oil Stocks For 2022

  Published 24 January 2022 | viewed 10,633 times

  After souring on the sector for years, Wall Street is increasingly turning positive on energy with a growing number of analysts expressing optimism that the…

• Canadian Oil Companies Are Spending On Dividends Rather Than Expansion

  Published 22 January 2022 | viewed 12,302 times

  About two years ago, OPEC+ made a high-stakes wager that it could curb oil production and drive crude prices higher without unleashing an onslaught of…

• The Oil Market Is At The Whim Of Geopolitical Disputes

  Published 20 January 2022 | viewed 7,222 times

  Oil prices have continued their early-year surge in the new year, thanks in large part to easing worries about omicron as well as tight oil…

• The New Superpowers In Global LNG Markets

  Published 19 January 2022 | viewed 11,774 times

  The 60-year liquefied natural gas industry has a new hierarchy in place, and it's opening up new trading opportunities. For the first time ever, the…

• The Oil Market Is Already Looking Beyond Omicron

  Published 17 January 2022 | viewed 10,744 times

  We are halfway through the first month of the new year, and oil's bull run is showing no signs of slowing. Oil futures have vaulted…

• 3 Key Trends Driving Natural Gas In 2022

  Published 16 January 2022 | viewed 24,091 times

  The oil sector has been hogging the investment limelight after a spectacular recovery that has set the sector as one of the top performers in…

• Bitcoin Or Oil: What To Buy In 2022?

  Published 16 January 2022 | viewed 9,275 times

  Shortly after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, governments everywhere unveiled massive monetary and fiscal stimuli (over $15T globally) in a…

• Goldman Sachs Calls 10-Year Commodity Supercycle

  Published 12 January 2022 | viewed 31,359 times

  While the markets digest the inflation numbers on Wednesday, all eyes will be focussed on the Federal Reserve's reaction to the inflation data. Many economists…

• Uranium Stocks Are Glowing Hot As Global Nuclear Ambitions Grow

  Published 11 January 2022 | viewed 5,573 times

  For decades, the nuclear energy sector has been regarded as the black sheep of the alternative energy market family thanks to massive cost-overruns, poor public…

• Why Are Renewables Stocks Plunging?

  Published 10 January 2022 | viewed 14,702 times

  Back in 2013, an announcement by the Federal Reserve about pulling back on the central bank's easy-money policies sent markets into a tizzy. Treasury bond…

• 5 Energy Dividend Stocks To Consider In 2022

  Published 09 January 2022 | viewed 34,852 times

  With the New Year, it's time for investors to recalibrate their portfolios. Last year was an annus mirabilis for energy investors thanks to high energy…

• U.S. Ramps Up Battery Production With 13 New Gigafactories

  Published 06 January 2022 | viewed 23,276 times

  The energy transition is driving the next commodity supercycle, with immense prospects for technology manufacturers, energy traders, and investors. Indeed, new energy research provider BloombergNEF…

• The Auto Industry Growth Stocks To Watch In 2022

  Published 06 January 2022 | viewed 1,994 times

  Despite persistent supply chain snags, the automobile sector comfortably outperformed the broader market over the past year. Over the past 12 months, the S&P 1500…

• The 10 Best Performing Commodities Of 2021

  Published 04 January 2022 | viewed 13,123 times

  Beginning in 2020 and extending into 2021, massive monetary and fiscal stimulus packages by the world's governments helped to facilitate the fastest economic recovery after…

• The Hottest Energy Storage IPOs In 2022

  Published 03 January 2022 | viewed 8,305 times

  One of the biggest electric-vehicle battery companies in the world is going public.  After years of disappointment, the U.S. IPO market has been recording a…

• Iran Plays Hardball In Drive To Export Crude Oil

  Published 02 January 2022 | viewed 5,613 times

  After a lengthy layoff, Iran appears poised to officially rejoin the ranks of oil exporters--maybe as early as 2022--if Tehran and Washington are able to…

• Chronic Underinvestment Could Push Oil Prices Higher In 2022

  Published 29 December 2021 | viewed 14,097 times

  Long-suffering Americans grappling with runaway inflation are finally enjoying some reprieve. After a relentless climb, prices at the pump have been heading south, with national…