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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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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (C, HAL, GS, YHOO, IBM, JNJ, T, AXP, AAPL, AMGN, WFC, GE, DD, HON, MCD, SLB, LUV)

Posted: April 15, 2011 at 2:24 pm

Next week may be short because of a holiday, but it is going to be a very busy week for earnings.  We have tried to narrow the field down to ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AEIS, AWK, ADM, AVGO, CTL, GPS, HAL, HAS, LVS, RIMM, SLB, S, DIS)

Posted: February 16, 2011 at 8:19 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS) Raised to Buy and ...
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Shale Gas Producers Could Face Financial Pressure (XOM, CHK, HK, RRC, XCO, SM, HAL, SLB)

Posted: February 1, 2011 at 2:36 pm

The land rush to acquire and develop shale gas deposits remains as competitive as ever. But the way that the gas is extracted threatens to put a crimp in development ...
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Title: Chesapeake Sells More Assets to Chinese (CHK, CEO, BP, SLB, HAL, BHI)

Posted: January 31, 2011 at 10:15 am

Ever since 2005, when its offer to buy Unocal was withdrawn following cries of political rage, Cnooc Ltd. (NYSE: CEO) and other Chinese oil companies kept a low profile on ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Rest Of The Week (AMD, F, FFIV, UNH, UNP, GOOG, APD, ARG, BAC, GE, SLB)

Posted: January 19, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Earnings season is well under way now and we wanted to offer previews for the biggest impact stocks which have earnings on Thursday and Friday.  The remaining most important earnings ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (AAPL, IBM, GS, WFC, UNH, UNP, GOOG, APD, ARG, BAC, GE, SLB)

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 10:46 am

Earnings season is upon us and this week will mark the beginning of the flood of earnings reports.  The most important earnings we are tracking will be from Apple Inc. ...
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Best Oil Field Services Stock for 2011 (SLB, HAL, NOV, BHI, WFT, GE, OIH)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 9:33 am

With crude oil prices hovering around $90/barrel, exploration and production companies are expected to increase their spending in 2011 by about 11%, for a total of about $490 billion. Oil ...
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Major Insider Selling To Set Records in December (AMZN, BRK-A, DDS, DTV, DG, EMC, EXPE, FDX, GPS, GENZ, INTC, JBHT, MSFT, JWN, ORCL, RL, CRM, SLB, SBUX, SCHW, VMW, WMT, WFMI, WYNN, DELL, LVS, GOOG)

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 8:02 am

Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof.  Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMD, AVGO, EGO, EFX, HAL, INTC, NVO, PFE, SLB, SPLS)

Posted: November 1, 2010 at 8:11 am

These are some of this Monday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Advance Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Neutral at Macquarie. Avago ...
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Schlumberger Earnings Just Meet Estimates (SLB, HAL, WFT, OIH)

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 9:42 am

Schlumberger N.V. (NYSE:SLB) reported third quarter earnings this morning and the short story is there were no surprises. Like competitors Halliburton Co. (NYSE:HAL) and Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE:WFT), onshore drilling ...
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