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BP Shows What Is To Come For Big Oil Earnings (BP, COP, XOM, CVX)

Posted: October 25, 2011 at 10:02 am

A year ago, shares of BP plc (NYSE: BP) closed near $41. Yesterday the shares closed near $42, about 15% below the stock’s 52-week high. When the company reported third ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Big Oil Companies (XOM, CVX, COP, BP, OXY, PBR)

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 3:08 pm

Large US oil companies have had a good year. Not the best ever, but good nonetheless on high prices for crude oil. The big reason for solid profits has been ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALTR, BK, BRCM, CTIC, CLWR, COP, DG, GFI, HTS, KR, NTES, NVAX, RAX)

Posted: October 13, 2011 at 8:26 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Cut to Neutral at Baird. Bank ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARMH, CFN, COP, EIX, GIS, GS, PDLI, SAP, SFD, S, SYK, TEF, TI, TSN, VLO)

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 8:14 am

These are some of this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. ...
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Pipeline from Canada to US Gulf Coast, Billions At Risk Or Reward (TRP, XOM, SU, SNP, COP, CVX, MUR, TOT, RDS-A, BP, DVN, KMP, ENB)

Posted: October 3, 2011 at 1:54 pm

A decision is expected by the end of this year from the US State Department on whether or not the US will allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. ...
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Will Crude Prices Stay Down 10%? (XOM, CVX, COP, OXY)

Posted: September 30, 2011 at 3:32 pm

In mid-afternoon trading today, WTI crude has fallen below $80/barrel and looks set to end the month down about -10%. Given all the dismal economic news that came out this ...
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Apache Garners a Bargain in the North Sea (APA, XOM, APC, CVX, COP, OXY, DVN, BP)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 11:46 am

Independent oil and gas producer Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) has agreed to purchase the North Sea assets of a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) for $1.75 billion. The ...
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Natural Gas is Cheap; What About Natural Gas Stocks? (XOM, BP, COP, APC, DVN, EOG, CHK)

Posted: September 13, 2011 at 11:14 am

After popping to an intra-day high near $5/thousand cubic feet (tcf) in early June, natural gas prices have dropped back to around $4/tcf and hovered there for about six weeks. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AGU, CLH, COP, DNDN, FDX, IPI, KBR, MDR, N, NIHD, ORCL, MOS, SFSF, TXN, VLO, VIP, ZION)

Posted: September 12, 2011 at 8:05 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Raised to Neutral at Goldman ...
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Can Sunoco Shed its Refineries? (SUN, MRO, MPC, COP, VLO, RDS-A, MUR)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 11:44 am

Beginning in the early 1990s, integrated oil companies and some independents began stripping away their midstream assets like interstate pipeline and gathering systems to focus more on the money-making parts ...
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The Great Energy Spin-Off Pipeline (MRO, MPC, TSO, TLLP, COP, BP, CHK, EP, XOM, CVX)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 12:03 pm

So far this year we've noted a couple of major spin-offs in the energy section. Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) spun out its downstream business into Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: ...
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Will Natural Gas Prices Ever Rise? (XOM, BP, CHK, ECA, COP, DVN, EOG, APC, UPL, STR)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 2:01 pm

A barrel of oil contains about six times as much energy as a thousand cubic feet of natural gas. By that metric, at today's WTI price of around $90/barrel, natural ...
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Largest Companies Refuse Woman As Executives And Board Members

Posted: August 22, 2011 at 9:40 am

Study after study has demonstrated the income disparity between women and men. Not surprisingly, this gender discrimination carries all the way into America's boardrooms and corporate suites, where women continue ...
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Libyan Events Could Finally Lower Pump Prices (XOM, BP, CVX, COP, VLO, TSO, MPC, WNR)

Posted: August 22, 2011 at 8:37 am

This past weekend's startling developments in Libya hit the crude oil markets almost instantly. Brent crude in Europe fell to around $105/barrel at one point, while WTI crude has gained ...
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Oil Spill Lessons: Boom for Environmental and Clean-Up Outfits (NLC, CLH, NR, XOM, COP, CEO, RDS-A, TRP, ECL)

Posted: August 16, 2011 at 9:20 am

Companies that provide the tools and services to clean up oil spills made the news following last year's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Speciality chemical companies that make the ...
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