{"id":18646,"date":"2025-07-26T22:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=18646"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:55:15","slug":"marcs-top-plays-in-oil-natural-gas-nuclear-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=18646","title":{"rendered":"Marc\u2019s Top Plays in Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_1came6ecpu videoFoam=true\" style=\"height: 100%; position: relative; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_swatch\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0; transition: opacity 200ms; width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"filter: blur(5px); height: 100%; object-fit: contain; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordclub.wistia.com\/medias\/1came6ecpu\/swatch\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, the most popular ETF tracking the energy sector, the <strong>Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund<\/strong> (NYSE: XLE) has gained 0.4% year to date. Based on that alone, you might think it\u2019s been an uneventful year for energy stocks.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it\u2019s been the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a seemingly constant stream of news, from tariffs to President Trump\u2019s \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d mantra to sudden spikes and drops in oil prices. It\u2019s all led to significant uncertainty among investors and plenty of great questions from you, our readers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Chief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfeld joined Oxford Club Publisher Rachel Gearhart in The Oxford Clubroom (our live video and chat platform) on Tuesday morning to talk about all things energy.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s just some of what they covered:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 21px 0px 21px 0px;\">Why Marc forecasts \u201cmassive demand for every source of energy\u201d in the coming years<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 21px 0px;\">His forecast for oil prices over the next 12 months and beyond<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 21px 0px;\">The oil and gas partnership that had Marc saying, \u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to have favorite stocks\u2026 but it\u2019s one of my favorites\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 21px 0px;\">The new development that could give a big boost to the natural gas space<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 21px 0px;\">A natural gas partnership with a 6% tax-deferred yield<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 21px 0px;\">The factors that are converging to form a potential \u201cnuclear renaissance\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 21px 0px;\">Marc\u2019s two favorite companies that are involved in nuclear energy<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 21px 0px;\">When Marc believes investors should \u201cback up the truck\u201d and increase their exposure to the energy sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click the image above to watch the highlights from the session!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '555402891275842',\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v20.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><script>\n    (function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s);\n      js.id = id;\n      js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=555402891275842&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthyretirement.com\/market-trends\/all-things-energy-marcs-top-plays-in-oil-natural-gas-nuclear-and-more\/?source=app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As I write this, the most popular ETF tracking the energy sector, the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLE) has gained 0.4% year to date. Based on that alone, you might think it\u2019s been an uneventful year for energy stocks. In reality, it\u2019s been the exact opposite. There\u2019s been a seemingly constant stream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[1680,7299,795,7142,3252,3501,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-18646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-retirement","8":"tag-gas","9":"tag-marcs","10":"tag-natural","11":"tag-nuclear","12":"tag-oil","13":"tag-plays","14":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}