Twitter has a lot of people posing as someone they are not, a problem that plagues larger social networks MySpace and Facebook. The trend with Twitter is becoming a significant problem for big corporations.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: GM will accept product liability on cars it has built in the past. Reuters: Obama could consider a second stimulus if necessary. Reuters: Rising office availability in NYC is slowing. Reuters: …
Short sellers jumped out of major financial shares but piled into the stocks for major industrial firms based on data as of June 15. Shorts clearly think the restructuring of the bank…
It has become commonplace among analysts and oil traders to fear that crude prices are up so much that inflation will have to return the market. A recent piece from Reuters reinforces…
We keep getting asked a single question from readers and from our own industry and professional contacts: Are Oil Stocks Cheap? There is a very simple answer in today’s markets: Oil stocks…
Reuters: Baclays (BCS) sold BCI to Blackrock (BLK) for $13.3 billion Reuters: WHO declared a flu epidemic Reuters: Congress bash Fed, Treasury, and B of A (BAC) on Merrill Reuters: US is…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) may be getting deeper and deeper in Alaska via a monster pipeline project. A report from the Houston Chronicle said the oil giant is in discussions with…
Reuters: Fiat closed its deal for control of Chrysler. Reuters: California may be hit by an economic “meltdown.” Reuters: May foreclosures were third highest month ever recorded. Reuters: The US named a…
The theory that the recession would mitigate the price of oil had all the trappings of being true. Consumption in the US, UK, EU, and Japan happen to be down substantially. Industrial…
Shell is the largest oil company in Europe and one of the biggest in the world. Its assessment of the industry and the direction of the price of oil is probably as accurate…
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…
China Petroleum (PTR) is buying 45.5% of Singapore Petroleum for just over $1 billion and will probably move to purchase the balance of the company. China recently proposed a deal to lend…
Reuters: Magna and Fiat improved bids for Opel as competition for the firm rose. Reuters: The air cargo market, a key global indicator, has probably bottomed. Reuters: Banks are coming up with…
The $10 billion loan from the China Development Bank to Brazil’s Petroleo Brasiliero SA, known as Petrobras (NYSE: PBR), has been finalized. This deal has been in our pending file since late…
Japan’s Nikkei newspaper has reported that Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has reach an agreement to sell about 1.5 billion cubic meters/year of natural gas from the Sakhalin-1 project to Russia’s gas monopoly…
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