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On 5/12/20, Exxon Mobil will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.87, payable on 6/10/20.

Here's how oil plays into the U.S. decision to remove troops from Saudi Arabia.

Robert Litterman was a legendary quantitative investor at Goldman Sachs. Now, as an adviser to federal regulators, he is urging action to manage the risk of global warming.

Union Pacific's (NYSE: UNP) Energy Freight segment, which consists of the transportation of coal, crude oil, sand, and petroleum products, has seen revenues shrink from $4.5 billion in 2017 to $3.8 billion in 2019, and w...

With so much still uncertain about the outlook for the economy, the market hasn't yet found a catalyst to break higher or lower.

The Fed's dollar swap figures show that Asia, and Japan in particular, has taken over from the eurozone as the likely axis of future dollar-denominated blowups.

Five reasons the stock market is soaring as the economy is floundering: from buoyant tech stocks to high earnings hopes to fear of missing out.

As a new proposal to replace the emergency lending program gains steam, here's how much money is left, how many jobs were saved, and what could be ahead.

The market moved higher, even after 20 million job losses in April.

The Nasdaq index has officially gone positive on the year, throwing caution to the wind and rallying through multiple resistance levels to get there.

One of the most glaring differences between socialist and capitalist countries centers on cultural ideology.

Despite historic levels of stimulus, such as the payroll protection plan, people are unemployed and some are lining up in food lines not seen since the 1930s.

A record 20.5 million people lost their jobs in April, driving up the unemployment rate to a historic high of 14.7%. The numbers will be worse next month.

In the month of April, the unemployment rate shot up to an eye-watering 14.7% as the American economy ground to a halt, with 20.5 million jobs eliminated--that's nearly every job created over the past decade, gone in a s...

Popular YouTuber gets demonetized for China video on coronavirus origins.

The April jobs report was every bit as bad as everybody worried it would be. The climb back will be slow and painful.

For most of American business, the first quarter was the worst of times. But if not for the pandemic, perhaps it could have been the best of times. That is one way executives are explaining away a downright Dickensian st...

While COVID-19 may indeed be a dress rehearsal, may I suggest that it may not be one for another pandemic, but for another "natural" disaster - a disaster that is at once as predictable as to occurrence and as uncertain ...

Our approach to investing is basically a data driven, two step process: Knowing what to do according to current market conditions, and then quantitatively determining the best price level to do it.

In what ways is the economic lockdown comparable to the extended recession of 1980-1982? Why might we witness a similar resurgence now like we did in the 1980s and who will likely lead it? What companies and industries s...

U.S. government bond prices fell Friday after the April jobs report met but didn't exceed economists' dismal expectations.

No one ever expected to see a jobs report like this in their lifetime, and hopefully we'll never see one like this again. Stocks have a stronger feel this morning in part because there's hope this could be the worst data...