Chevron

CVX

Market cap $328B

Stephanie Link, CIO at Hightower, joins CNBC's "Halftime Report" to explain why she's buying more Chevron so soon.

Oil prices fell well below $60 per barrel recently before rallying back above that key level this week, initially driven lower by oversupply and weak demand.

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On Saturday, hours after U.S. forces in Caracas killed at least 80 people and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump sounded less like a wartime commander than a developer surveying a newly acquired property. The country's future, he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort, belonged to “very large United States oil companies,” which would soon be pumping “a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.

Private equity giant Carlyle , a group comprising oil major Chevron and Quantum Capital Group as well as UAE-based investor International Holding Company are competing for the global assets of Russia's Lukoil as a U.S. deadline to sell them expires this week, sources said.

CVX is accelerating Venezuelan crude exports to ease storage bottlenecks and unlock up to $700 million in annual cash flow amid shifting geopolitics.

Trump said Sunday he could keep Exxon Mobil "out" of Venezuela, possibly setting up another South American win for Chevron.

The removal of Maduro and potential U.S. involvement could revamp Venezuela's struggling oil sector, making it easier for U.S. oil companies to do business in the country. Venezuela is believed to have around 300 billion barrels of oil reserves.

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The S&P 500 closed out 2025 with a total return of 16.4%, marking its third consecutive year of double-digit gains. Despite a choppy finish, it was a strong year for equities, with every sector ending the year in positive territory.