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Apple Tops Exxon in Market Cap

For most of the past two years, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) held the top spot as the most valuable company in the world as measured by market cap, having wrestled ...
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Oil Price Gains from Last Week Continue

In the month of May so far, crude oil prices have risen nearly 2% after falling by 4% in April. In the past 30 days, the average price for a ...
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Merger Changes Middle Ranks of Pipeline MLPs

Crestwood Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE: CMLP), Inergy L.P. (NYSE: NRGY) and Inergy Midstream L.P. (NYSE: NRGM) today announced that the companies have agreed to merge in a deal that will ...
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Westlake Earnings Set the Stage for Better Things to Come

Westlake Chemical Corp. (NYSE: WLK) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The maker of a variety of petrochemicals, polymers and building products posted diluted earnings per share ...
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Natural Gas Inventory Build Tamps Down Price

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported that the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 43 billion cubic feet last week, substantially above the expected range for a build ...
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Raymond James Lists Top Energy Stocks and MLPs to Buy

The United States may be on the verge of becoming a net exporter of energy products. Ultimately along with the rebirth of the housing sector, this could be the engine ...
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Why Gasoline Prices Just Cannot Rise from Here

Today’s report on U.S. crude oil and gasoline inventories underscores a story we have been trying to tell for several weeks now: crude oil and gasoline prices have nowhere to ...
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Inventory Report Crushes Oil Prices

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. The big news is U.S. crude oil inventories are at their highest level since the EIA ...
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Refining Margins Boost Earnings at Phillips 66

Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The oil refiner posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.19. In the same period a ...
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More Oil, Higher Natural Gas Prices Pump Up Chesapeake Earnings

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) reported first-quarter 2013 earnings before markets opened this morning. The oil and gas exploration and production company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of ...
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The Shale Boom Never Ends

Shale may be critical to the future of the jobs market and the overall U.S. economy. If these observations are true, the conclusions regarding them just got another boost. There ...
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Serious Breaches at BP’s Norwegian Platform Cause Risk of Huge Explosion

By James Burgess, oilprice.com | Mon, 29 April 2013 Benefit From the Latest Energy Trends and Investment Opportunities before the mainstream media and investing public are aware they even exist. The Free Oilprice.com Energy ...
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Can the Oil Boom Cross the Rio Grande?

By Daniel J. Graeber, oilprice.com | Mon, 29 April 2013  Benefit From the Latest Energy Trends and Investment Opportunities before the mainstream media and investing public are aware they even exist. The Free Oilprice.com ...
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Merrill Lynch Picks Top MLPs with Higher Payouts

Over the course of this year we have written at great length on master limited partnerships (MLPs) and the potential for investors to receive solid total returns from these stocks. ...
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Valero, Marathon Earnings Continue to Impress

Oil refiners Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) and Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. Marathon posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of ...
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