August's final days are closing a narrow window for income investors, and five blue-chip names with multi-decade dividend streaks just posted earnings beats that change the calculus on each one.
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ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation (NYSE:XOM) is the largest oil company in the United States, and one of the largest integrated energy companies in the world. The stock hit an all-time high earlier in March and has gained more than 34% this year, fuelled by soaring energy prices and solid earnings amid the disruptions in the Middle […]

The streak is one of the most dependable in the market. The annual increase behind it is much smaller than it used to be.

The 10-year project in Vermilion Parish will include five launch complexes and infrastructure for Starship missions.

SpaceX just committed to building a $100 billion launch campus on a fragile Louisiana coastline, and the state is betting thousands of jobs and a delicate ecosystem on a rocket that has yet to solve its hardest engineering problem.
The market is treating fresh sanctions as negotiation pressure rather than an immediate threat to global supply.

Shell (LSE:SHEL) is exploring a potential sale of its U.S. chemicals business, with ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell and other large industry players reported to have submitted offers. The move comes alongside recent portfolio sales in renewables and gas projects as Shell refines its asset mix and places greater emphasis on liquefied natural gas operations. Any transaction could reshape Shell's long term business profile in the energy sector and influence how it allocates capital between...

ExxonMobil offers stronger upside from high oil prices and a cheaper valuation, while Enterprise provides stable cash flows and growth projects.

SHEL's potential $8B U.S. chemicals exit marks a sharper focus on oil and gas as it cuts costs and reshapes capital allocation.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.16% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up by +0.12%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up by +0.51%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.15%, and September E-mini...

The U.S. just used its emergency oil buffer to blunt a major supply shock, and it worked. But the strategy left America's strategic reserve at its lowest point in over four decades, and the next disruption could arrive before a single replacement barrel goes in the ground.

A Joint Economic Committee minority report found Trump held as much as $45.6M in oil and gas stocks in 2025, a portfolio now worth up to $61.1M

ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, Chevron have been highlighted in this Market Edge article.

Two of the company’s rigs in the Permian Basin are now fully automated and it wants to automate as many as 15 by 2028, per Reuters.

Shell plc (NYSE:SHEL) is considering selling its U.S. chemicals business, with potential buyers including ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell, Apollo and the chemicals arm of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. The assets could fetch as much as $8 billion, although the bids are still non-binding and there is no guarantee a deal will happen. The potential sale would mark a major […]

Shell is looking to unload its U.S. chemicals assets.

AI is shaking up a lot of things—including which stocks investors can expect to hold up in a market selloff. Investors have long relied on a mathematical measure known as beta to judge market risk. A stock with a beta of 1 tends to move in line with the stock market.
Energy stocks fell Monday with the NYSE Energy Sector Index dropping 0.9% and the State Street Energ

Building $37,200 a year in dividend income is a math problem first, and the yield tier you choose changes the capital required by hundreds of thousands of dollars in ways most investors never calculate before picking their first stock.
Falling crude prices are stripping away part of the geopolitical premium built into energy shares.

Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Williams are all reliable income plays in the energy sector.

ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell, Apollo Global Management, and Kuwait Petroleum have submitted non-binding offers for Shell's U.S. assets
Energy stocks were lower Monday afternoon, with the NYSE Energy Sector Index and the State Street En

Both oil giants raised dividends again in 2026 and posted blockbuster quarters, but a decade of payout history reveals one clear winner on durability and one on yield. Knowing which fits your portfolio could matter more than the latest earnings beat.

As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results from Q2. Today, we are looking at diversified upstream e&p stocks, starting with ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM).

Gas prices could rise if the Trump administration's plan to sever Iran's "economic lifeline" further hits global oil supplies.

