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Oil Portfolio Decline Levels Off

The Energy Sector fared a little better over the last two weeks. However, our Model Oil Portfolio dropped 0.9% and is now down 5.7% since inception on June 2, 2019 while, for 2020, it is off 14.6%. Many of the benchmarks we use are also struggling. The fear is that the coronavirus could spread globally and instigate a significant slow-down in a variety of economic areas. [more]

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Oil Portfolio Off Dramatically

The specter of a coronavirus epidemic gripped the markets in the last few days with a broad sell-off occurring across almost all indexes. We are on the cusp of this health threat, and we could know soon whether it will proliferate or be contained. [more]

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Oil Portfolio Had a Tough Week

With a lessening of tensions in the Middle East, the Energy Sector retrenched last week. Although the price of crude oil rebounded in the latter part of the week, it was still down 0.9% and dragged many oil stocks down with it. [more]

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Oil Portfolio Ping-Pongs

It was somewhat of a wild ride last week as, at first, oil stocks surged with increasing global political tensions, but then they retrenched as these tensions dissipated. [more]

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Oil Portfolio Breaks Out

The outlook for the energy sector has improved during December with positive catalysts including the OPEC+ cartel agreeing to cut production in Q1/2020, the successful IPO of Saudi Aramco, and crude oil price gains. [more]

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Oil Portfolio Just Below Break-Even

The outlook for the energy sector, and particularly for the oil component, was given a boost on Friday as the OPEC+ cartel agreed to cut oil production in Q1/2020. Our Portfolio continues to perform relatively well but is still struggling to gain much traction in positive territory. [more]

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Oil Portfolio Shows Dramatic Rise

We are taking advantage of the surge in the share prices of the oil stocks today to update our Oil Portfolio. Finally, we are in positive territory, which actually happened last Thursday and the first time since the Portfolio was begun at the beginning of June. [more]