Occidental Petroleum Stock News

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Energy stocks as a whole delivered an underwhelming performance in 2025. The average one in the S&P 500 has only managed to eke out a small gain (the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund -- an ETF that tracks energy stocks in the S&P 500 -- is only up about 1% on the year).

The outlook for U.S. stocks in 2025 is bright due to expected interest rate cuts and stable unemployment, boosting equity prices. President-elect Trump's tax cuts and deregulation plans should further stimulate equity prices, though tariffs could pose inflationary risks. Following Warren Buffett's buy and hold strategy, I recommend the same 10 stocks for 2025, which outperformed the S&P 500 in ...

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Whenever retail investors can get their hands on the latest set of investment flow data, they should pay attention to it. Not only to figure out who is buying what and what asset classes – or individual stocks – might come into favor in the following months but actually so that they can connect the dots with whatever trends and themes are developing in the broader markets and economy.

Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 0.80%) (BRK.B 0.95%) has been stockpiling cash all year. At the end of the third quarter of 2024, Berkshire had over $320 billion of cash and short-term Treasury bills.

Warren Buffett has made some rather bearish moves in Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A 0.80%) (BRK.B 0.95%) stock portfolio in the past few quarters. Most notably, the legendary investor disposed of significant portions of both the Apple and Bank of America investments that have performed extremely well for Berkshire.

Occidental Petroleum (OXY 0.58%) and Diamondback Energy (FANG 1.07%) are two of the leading producers in the prolific Permian Basin that runs through parts of Texas and New Mexico. That basin has almost single-handedly turned America into an oil-producing powerhouse.