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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to clarify his energy platform in a major speech on Thursday at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in North Dakota, Reuters reported. Trump has taken a very nationalistic approach to trade policy in campaign speeches,...

Asian stocks closed mostly higher on Wednesday after U.S. equities posted strong gains on Tuesday. "Asian markets have had limited news flow to deal with today," Chris Weston, chief market strategist at spreadbetter IG told CNBC. "The bold moves [today] are a reflection of the belief that the...

ADRs of Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras (ADR) (NYSE: PBR) have underperformed, despite a recent upgrade from JPMorgan. Rating And Justification JPMorgan upgraded the stock to Neutral from Underweight on potential for lower credit risk, asset sales momentum, favorable regulatory environment and...

Argus has reaffirmed its Buy rating on Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) on recent recovery in crude oil prices and accelerating cost cuts. Analyst Justification Anadarko, which is on Argus' "Focus List," gets major share of earnings from its U.S. onshore business — Wattenberg and...

Unfortunately, the rise in crude oil prices in 2016 is too little too late for a number of oil and gas E&Ps. However, according to Roth Capital Partners analyst John White, there are still plenty of E&P buying opportunities out there. “We don’t like writing about this any more...

Long/short is a popular strategy in the hedge fund community and one made accessible to investors of all stripes by the exchange-traded funds industry. Typically, long/short ETFs are equity-based, but investors can now take both sides of the commodities trade with the First Trust Alternative...

Maybe oil is not hampering the Global X MSCI Nigeria ETF ( Global X Funds (NYSE: NGE) at all — not with the United States Brent Oil Fund, LP (NYSE: BNO) being up 23.8 percent year-to-date and NGE being the only exchange-traded fund dedicated to equities in Africa's largest oil-producing...

British Columbia, which has so far been skewed more toward natural gas than oil, could become a major player in the North American oil market in coming years. Raymond James analyst Kurt Molnar believes that oil companies and even the British Columbia government are beginning to recognize the...

With the United States Brent Oil Fund, LP (NYSE: BNO) higher by nearly 23 percent year-to-date, a bevy of single-country exchange-traded funds tracking equities in major oil-producing nations are benefiting. That includes developed and emerging markets ETFs. Let's Talk Oil The group certainly...

Morgan Stanley hosted an oil services conference in Houston last week where global E&P names gathered to discuss the current environment in the oil complex. Following a volatile start to 2016, which has seen WTI futures close as low as $26.19 and as high as $46.03, here are 5 key takeaways from...

The iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia Capped ETF (NYSE: KSA), the lone exchange-traded fund dedicated to stocks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nation, is down nearly 1.1 percent year-to-date, a disappointing performance when noting the United States Brent Oil Fund, LP (NYSE: BNO) is higher by 19.5...

OPEC recently cut the outlook on non-OPEC crude oil supply in 2016. It raised the forecast of supply loss for non-OPEC suppliers from 730,000 BPD to a 740,000 BPD drop, citing weak production outlooks for China, Colombia, the UK and the United States. OPEC seems to be playing a range-bound game...

Goldman Sachs said Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) needs to show more differentiated growth, but the firm updated its estimates and target price on the stock while maintaining a Neutral rating on the issue. Analyst Brian Singer narrowed his loss estimate for 2016 to -$0.71 from -$2.34. The analyst...

JPMorgan’s Phil Gresh likes Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY)'s “combination of offense and defense,” and mentioned that the stock valuation currently prices in the medium-term expectations. Gresh downgraded the rating on the company from Overweight to Neutral, while...

When commodities swooned over the past two years, plenty of emerging markets and the corresponding exchange-traded funds felt the pain. The Global X MSCI Colombia ETF (NYSE: GXG) was among those ETFs, losing an average of 34 percent in 2014 and 2015. Commodities' Swoon And Subsequent Rebound Those...