Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday. Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) Cut to Neutral at Macquarie. Charter Communications,…
Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) shares were up almost 2% ahead of the company’s operational update. The stock was halted for this update and the stock is now in the red, but it is…
As oil went from $105 to under $85 in just over a month, you can imagine that the drop was not too good for Big Oil. In fact, the news was pretty…
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% in the…
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 natural gas…
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 lowered bar.…
ThinkstockAt 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 a negative…
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 international operations.…
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), Weatherford International…
Now that the Japanese partner of BP plc (NYSE: BP), Mitsui & Co’s MOEX, settled claims against it for its portion of the Macondo well explosion that killed 11 people and dumped…
A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled that BP plc (NYSE: BP) must pay some claims against Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) related to the Gulf of Mexico disaster that killed 11…
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 gain for…
Jon OggThese 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 Bull…
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 a positive…
Shares of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) fell almost 2% before the open to $35.75 after the oil infrastructure and service company ann0unced frouth quarter earnings The firm reported income from continuing operations for…
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