Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) Started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. Baker…
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 last year.…
Aol’s (NYSE: AOL) CEO approaches large investors about a merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters) The IMF says China can weather global financial and economic risks. (Reuters) Wall St. will watch Google…
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 countries, like…
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: HAL), National…
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, whether on…
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 — reported…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C), Halliburton Company (NYSE:…
ThinkstockThe 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 fluids used…
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 for Brent…
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 and gas,…
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 few exceptions,…
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 spending, which…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre In a week in which retail sales took a backseat only to jobs reports, Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) moved higher by 12.7% as Morgan Stanley said the stock was undervalued. Netflix (NASDAQ:…
