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Are Energy Stocks – The Biggest Losers Of The Past Year (And The Past Decade) – The New Vice Stocks?

The biggest losers (as far as stocks go) of the past year – and the past decade? Energy stocks. In fact, today’s article notes that the two worst-performing S&P 500 stocks this decade are from the energy sector. And while the defining challenge the energy industry faced this decade was excess supply (with one analyst concluding that “Shale oil companies were a victim of their own success”), in the coming decade the industry could face a different defining challenge: climate change. Are energy stocks becoming a new category of vice stocks like alcohol and tobacco? For more, CLICK HERE.