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After the Fall: Value in Oil Stocks (XOM, CVX, BP, SLB, HAL, BHI, VLO, MPC, TSO, OIH, XOP)

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 11:11 am

The month-long slide in crude oil prices has chopped the share price of many of the biggest names in the oil patch. Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) is about -4% ...
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Chesapeake Gas Well Blow-out in Wyoming Leads to Evacuations (CHK, CEO, HAL)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 2:21 pm

About 70 people have been evacuated from an area within a 5-mile radius of a natural gas well about 10 miles northeast of Douglas, Wyoming, has been leaking mud and ...
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Baker Hughes, Weatherford Continue Winning Streak for Oilfield Services Companies (BHI, WFT, HAL, SLB, NOV, CHK, OIH)

Posted: April 24, 2012 at 12:58 pm

The oilfield services companies are on a roll. Well, sort of. Expectations had been lowered so much coming into this earnings season that every one is able to clear the ...
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Schlumberger Warns on Earnings (SLB, BHI, HAL)

Posted: March 26, 2012 at 12:04 pm

At an energy conference in New Orleans today, the CEO of Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) said that downward pressure on prices for the company’s hydraulic fracturing (fracking) services will have ...
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Baker Hughes Slices First Quarter Profit Estimate (BHI, SLB, HAL)

Posted: March 21, 2012 at 8:38 am

Oil field services firm Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) this morning announced that it is cutting its first quarter 2012 operating profit before tax margins in both its US and ...
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Oil Field Services Companies Hit by Weaker Oil Prices (SLB, HAL, BHI, WFT, NOV, RIG)

Posted: March 6, 2012 at 1:43 pm

Today’s falling crude prices are having an impact on stocks in the oil field services companies today. Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB), Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), ...
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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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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CAL, HAL, HMY, HD, IBI, KLAC, KORS, NFLX, NIHD, NVLS, PAAS, TXN, UNP, ZUMZ)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 8:14 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Tuesday morning. Caterpillar, Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Raised to Outperform as ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (COP, SIRI, GOOG, PG, AMGN, HAL, TWIN, PETS, MFN, GDP, CBRX, SR, RIMG)

Posted: January 23, 2012 at 4:08 pm

Equity markets opened slightly higher this morning but trailed off to negative territory in the late morning. By late afternoon, the NASDAQ composite and the S&P 500 were flirting with ...
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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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What’s Important in the Financial Word (1/3/2011) Apple NYC Meeting, BP Sues Halliburton

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 6:30 am

The markets will await several critical pieces of data over the next several days. Stocks likely will not move much until this information is out. December car sales will show ...
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Media Digest (1/3/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 6:27 am

Wall St. expects same-store sales for December to rise 4.3%. (Reuters) Returns of holiday online gifts are expect to reach a record. (Reuters) Venezuela says it will pay Exxon Mobil ...
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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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What’s New in the Financial World (12/6/2011) The Rise of Shale, BP Fights With Halliburton

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 6:29 am

Eurozone on notice. The situation in Europe, so promising just days ago, took a sharp turn for the worse. S&P put 17 nations in the euro area on credit ...
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