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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (NFLX, PAAS, HAL, HD, KORS, APD, BHI, CLWR, APD, BHI, CLWR, EMC, WDC, CSX, ZION, AAPL, BLRX, LEE, BONT, IDCC, ACHN)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 4:11 pm

All three major equity indexes opened lower this morning and while all have tracked back to last night’s close, only the Nasdaq Composite has managed to wobble to a small ...
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Schlumberger Tops Estimates (SLB, HAL, BHI)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 7:33 am

The first of the big oil field services to report quarterly earnings is also the largest: Schlumberger Ltd. For the full fiscal year, the company reported revenue of $39.54 billion ...
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Iraqi Oil Easy to Find, Hard to Make Money On (XOM, BP, RDS-A, HAL, BHI)

Posted: December 23, 2011 at 8:28 am

When Iraq began offering leases to its vast oil deposits a couple of years ago, there weren’t a lot of big oil companies lined up to buy in. Iraq’s offer ...
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Crude Inventory Drops Dramatically (XOM, CVX, SLB, HAL, BHI)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 11:26 am

This morning’s weekly petroleum status report from the US Energy Information Administration noted a particularly steep -- and unexpected -- drawdown in oil stocks. Crude inventory fell by 10.6 million ...
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Implied Gains in Oil Field Services Stocks May Not be Real (SLB, HAL, BHI, RIG, NOV, WFT)

Posted: November 18, 2011 at 2:01 pm

Share prices for the oil field services companies dipped in late July shortly after many of the companies had posted new 52-week highs. The stocks have been struggling since then, ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Oil Field Services Companies (SLB, HAL, BHI, RIG, NOV, WFT)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 1:36 pm

Following last year’s disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, oil drillers and field services companies watched their shares fall more than -20% in most cases as prospects for exploration and ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AA, BHI, BRCM, CFN, CHTR, C, FNF, FSLR, GS, HAL, LULU, M, PGR, QCOM, UNH, URBN, VMW, WHR)

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 8:22 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) Started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BHI, BEAM, BA, CSCO, ECL, FXCM, GPS, GE, HPQ, IBM, IBKR, ITT, KMP, PAA, TAL, TER)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 8:31 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) Cut to Market Perform ...
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Serious New Regulatory Risks Arise for Oil Contractors (BP, RIG, HAL, CAM, SLB, BHI, NOV)

Posted: October 13, 2011 at 11:36 am

Responsibility is going to get spread around for the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 people and poured millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ...
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The Great Shale Gas Opportunity in China For Outsiders (BHI, HAL, SLB, NOV, CHK, DVN, SNP, CEO, PTR, RDS-A, CVX, BP)

Posted: September 26, 2011 at 10:17 am

The boom in US natural gas drilling resulting from the technological advances of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is beginning to spread to the rest of the world. In some ...
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The Best Value Stock in Oil Field Services (SLB, HAL, NOV, BHI, WFT)

Posted: September 13, 2011 at 10:18 am

There are five companies that dominate the oil field services industry, and all have a market cap above $10 billion. The five are Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB), Halliburton Co. (NYSE: ...
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China to Begin Serious Hunt for Shale Gas (SNP, PTR, CEO, RDS-A, CVX, BP, STO, HAL, SLB, BHI, NOV, DVN, CHK)

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 11:35 am

None of China's three largest oil companies is having a particularly good year as far as refining profits go. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (NYSE: SNP) -- known as Sinopec ...
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Federal Panel Wants Controls on Fracking (HAL, SLB, WFT, CPX, KEG, PTEN, RES, SWSIP, BHI, CHK, RRC)

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 9:42 am

The boom in natural gas production resulting from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has come at a price. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that the chemical stew of ...
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S&P Rates Oil & Gas Stocks Stable (XOM, CVX, COP, APA, CHK, SLB, HAL, BHI, NE, RIG, DO, VLO, TSO, MPC)

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 12:32 pm

As the markets swoon today from Friday night's downgrade of US debt, Standard & Poor's is making other changes to its debt ratings. One sector that is unchanged is oil ...
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Oil Field Services’ Stocks, ETFs Get Boost from Weatherford (WFT, SLB, HAL, BHI, OIH, XES, PXJ, IEZ)

Posted: July 26, 2011 at 10:59 am

As an industry, the oil field services sector is doing very well. Its P/E ratio for the trailing twelve months is 36 and its price/book ratio is 6.0. With a ...
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