Wikimedia commons / Stefan KühnFollowing last year’s disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Germany said it would abandon nuclear power generation in the country by 2022. Early today, Japan announced…
courtesy Chesapeake Energy Corp.Continuing the process of dumping properties in order to raise cash to pay down debt it incurred to purchase the properties in the first place, Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE:…
Energy stocks today exhibit all the signs of a market reacting to news that is difficult to categorize easily. First there is the $6 billion in acquisitions announced this morning by Plains…
After six years of back-and-forth with the U.S. government, Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A) (NYSE: RDS-B) yesterday began drilling a well offshore of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea, and the company…
Italy may turn to the eurozone as it weighs options for its debt. (Reuters) AMR, still in Chapter 11, will consider mergers with other airlines, which could include US Airways (NYSE: LCC), JetBlue (NASDAQ:…
The government of Norway has ended a 16-day strike against offshore oil and gas producers and killed the threat of an industry lockout that was set to begin at midnight last night.…
An association representing oil companies working on Norway’s continental shelf is preparing for a lockout against striking workers beginning at midnight tonight. If the lockout is enforced, about 6,500 workers will be…
An oil sheen has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico near an area where Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) (NYSE: RDS-B) has operations. The sheen is about 1 mile wide and…
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A; RDS-B) reported quarterly earnings early this morning and like counterparts Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) piles of profit are due almost…
SABMiller makes a hostile bid for Foster’s Group. (Reuters) The Swiss National Bank says the franc is overvalued. (Reuters) News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) management under more pressure as a reporter says News…
2.25 PM Comments from the Fed killed the rally, and the DJIA dropped into negative territory. The central bank will keep interest rates low through mid-2013, but it did not indicate any…
These are Thursday’s top ten analyst research summary upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street brokerage firms: AstraZeneca (AZN) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Brandywine Realty (BDN) Cut to Neutral at BofA/Merrill…
It is somewhat light in analyst coverage this morning as reports are dribbling in. These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street early this Wednesday…
The big news this morning is a restructuring at Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS.A) as the oil major welcomes a new chief executive on July 1st. The company is dividing its business…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-B) and Iogen Corporation announced Tuesday an extended commercial alliance that will accelerate their development and deployment of cellulosic ethanol. This includes a significant investment by Shell…
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