U.S. stocks finish higher as Nasdaq's 2% gain paces advance
U.S. stocks finished at their highest level in a month on Monday as strong performances by consumer-technology...
U.S. stocks finished at their highest level in a month on Monday as strong performances by consumer-technology giant Apple Inc. AAPL, +2.35% and chipmaker NVIDIA Inc. NVDA, +7.59% pushed the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.01% further into the lead. The Nasdaq gained roughly 223 points, or 2%, to finish at around 11,364, bringing the tech-heavy index’s year-to-date gain to 8.6%, according to FactSet data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.76% gained 254 points, or 0.8%, to close at roughly 33,630. The S&P 500 SPX, +1.19% gained 47 points, or 1.2%, to 4,020. The Dow is up approximately 1.5% since the start of the year, while the S&P 500 is up roughly 4.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq has outperformed the other major U.S. indexes since the start of 2023, a reversal of the trend from 2022, when the value-heavy Dow outperformed the Nasdaq by the widest margin since 2000, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Investors await a batch of earnings from mega cap technology stocks this week, including Microsoft Corp MSFT, +0.98%.
Midland Basin E&P HighPeak Energy Exploring Possible Sale
Independent E&P HighPeak Energy Inc. is exploring a potential sale of the company among strategic...
Independent E&P HighPeak Energy Inc. is exploring a potential sale of the company among strategic alternatives, the company said in a Jan. 23 press release. The Fort Worth, Texas-based operator, with acreage in the Midland Basin and a market capitalization of about $3 billion, said its board had voted to initiate a “evaluate certain strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value.”
The TOTAL number of US oil and natural gas rigsslid by four to 771 last week, as the oil rig countshed 10 units for its largest drop since September 2021 and the natural gas rig countrose by six to 156, Baker Hughes data show. Separately, the Energy Information Administration reported last week that the drilled-but-uncompleted well inventory across the top seven US shale formations increased to 4,577 in December as producers drilled the most wells since March 2020.
Eagle Ford Shale Production On A Steady Growth Trajectory
The Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas is growing again after experiencing a production collapse in 2020,...
The Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas is growing again after experiencing a production collapse in 2020, with monthly oil output gains averaging about 17,000 barrels per day in the second half of 2022, according to government data, while the rig count stood at 69 last week, the highest since March 2019. The region could see oil production increase by 25,000 to 40,000 bpd this year, Rystad Energy Head of Shale Well Research Alexandre Ramos-Peon forecast.
Upstream Oil, Gas Sector Moving The Needle On Emissions
Carbon dioxide emissions in the US upstream oil and natural gas sector declined by 37.4 million short...
Carbon dioxide emissions in the US upstream oil and natural gas sector declined by 37.4 million short tons between 2019 and 2021, despite an increase in emissions associated with drilling and completions activity in 2021, an Enverus Intelligence Research analysis found. EIR analysts estimate that flaring emissions fell by 30% year over year to 16.3 million short tons of CO2 equivalent in 2022 and expect voluntary emissions reductions combined with the Environmental Protection Agency's planned changes to pneumatic controller emission reporting rules to support this downward trend.
