XLE ETF News

The final trades of the week. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Steve Grasso, Guy Adami and Courtney Garcia.

Signs of progress in Ukraine-Russia peace talks and on Iran nuclear deal outweigh reports that offer a bullish outlook for prices.

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Energy stocks have seesawed this week as conflicting news of increased supply courses through commodity oil and gas prices.

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The energy sector resumed its recent rally Thursday, as crude oil prices rose again following the the previous session''s sharp pullback. The SPDR Energy Select Sector ETF rose 1.1% in morning trading. The bounce back comes after the ETF (XLE) slumped 3.1% on Wednesday, to snap an eight-session win streak, which was the longest since the eight-day stretched ended Sept. 20, 2018, as crude oil futures plummeted 12.1% from a 14-year high. On Thursday, crude oil futures rose 2.1%, as talks between Russian and Ukraine haven''t made progress. Within the XLE, shares of Chevron Corp. rose 3.7% and Baker Hughes Co. climbed 2.7% to pace the gainers. Among other more-active XLE components, shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp. tacked on 0.8% and Exxon Mobil Corp. advanced 1.2%, Marathon Oil Corp. slipped 0.6%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Energy stocks <> comprise Wednesday''s five biggest losers on the S&P 500, as crude futures plunged by the most since November after the United Arab Emirates and Iraq

Equal weighting provides increased diversification compared to their market cap-weighted counterparts and have historically fared well – as demonstrated last month when the S&P 500 Equal Weight Inde

The energy sector ETF XLE has outperformed a popular S&P 500 ETF by more than 50 percentage points since January.

Traders are betting Brent prices will cross $200 while U.S. energy import ban on Russia will likely find no other major nation joining suit.

Energy exchange traded funds continued to rally Tuesday after President Joe Biden said the U.S.will be banning oil imports from Russia in response to Moscow's invasion against Ukraine. The Energy Sele

Paul Sankey of Sankey Research discusses oil price moves and the shock to the market. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Dan Nathan, Guy Adami and Karen Finerman.

Energy-related exchange traded funds climbed on Monday, with crude oil prices hitting their highest level since 2008, as Western countries considered a Russia oil ban and a hiccup in the Iran nuclear

With gasoline and crude oil prices near levels associated with recessions, some investors are betting it is time to take profits in energy stocks. Maybe not.