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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CELL, CSCO, DECK, DO, FTE, HTS, HWAY, HERO, LVS, LULU, MPEL, NRG, PM, SLB, SAH, STFC, VE, VRSN, WFT, YUM)

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 8:21 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Brightpoint Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL) Reiterate as Buy with a $14 ...
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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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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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Oil Shales & Sands: Massive Job-Creating Machines (BP, HAL, SLB)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Recent reports from North Dakota illustrate just how much demand there is for workers in the Bakken oil and gas fields. Unemployed workers have relatively little trouble finding jobs there, ...
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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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Crude Demand Falls, Profits to Follow? (XOM, CVX, COP, BP, VLO, TSO, WNR, SLB, HAL, NE, APA, DVN, CHK)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 9:42 am

High prices have finally contributed to curing high prices in the world's crude oil market. The gloomy economic forecasts for the second half of 2011 have combined with $120/barrel prices ...
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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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Stunning: Petrobras Spending $224.7 Billion on Offshore Oil (PBR, NE, DO, RIG, HAL, BHI, SLB)

Posted: July 23, 2011 at 9:30 am

Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), commonly called Petrobras, has approved a plan it announced last September to spend $224.7 billion developing an estimated 5 billion barrels of reserves. The ...
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Schlumberger Earnings, Revenues Fall Short; BP Sues Halliburton (SLB, WFT, HAL, BHI, BP, RIG, CAM)

Posted: April 21, 2011 at 9:20 am

Bad weather in North America and Australia, political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and a slow return to drilling in the US Gulf of Mexico have all ...
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Halliburton Earnings Surge, But Services Sector Has Risks Ahead (HAL, SLB, BHI, WFT, OIH)

Posted: April 18, 2011 at 10:04 am

Oil field services firm Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) reported EPS of $0.61 for its first quarter, more than double its profit in the same period a year ago. Revenue reached ...
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