If you think oil companies make too much money regardless of what the numbers are, you might consider looking at just how sensitive the companies are to the price of oil. The…
Douglas A. McIntyre Last week marked what was the crest of third quarter earnings season for 2009, yet there is still a flood of earnings reports coming out this next week. We have four more…
This week was the crest of 2009 third quarter earnings season. We still have a flood of reports next week and picking a mere top ten earnings to watch was very unfair…
There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7…
Reuters: The healthcare plan is about to take a step forward in Congress. Reuters: The debt swap at CIT (NYSE:CIT) is in trouble and could cause bankruptcy. Reuters: Summers says Obama policies…
Reuters: E-mails and the credit crisis will be key to the trial of Bear Stearns workers. Reuters: The approval process for Tengzhong to buy Hummer has started in China. Reuters: Philips Electronics…
ConocoPhillipsConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is trying to further adopt shareholder-friendly strategies with a higher payout and lower expenses. With as much as this stock has lagged some peers until recently, that should be…
Reuters: Wealth management firms are starting to target the not-so wealthy. Reuters: Gold’s record price drew a muted response. Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) are heating up the smartphone…
Updates throughout the day. Update 2.40 PM EST: Biotech Cell Therapeutics (CTIC) is getting crushed, down 13% to $.95 on over 46 million shares. Rumors of insider selling, troubles with OPAXIO cancer, and…
Oil major ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE:COP) released its third quarter 2009 interim update this morning, and while the news was not altogether positive, the company’s share price is up nearly 2.5% in early…
The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration has released its weekly status report on crude oil inventories, and once again they are higher, this time by 2.8 million barrels. Gasoline inventories…
China has made aggressive investments in oil production facilities and fields in Venezuela, Brazil, and several places in the Middle East. Almost all its multi-billion dollar deals are aimed at locking up supply to…
Angola’s state-owned oil company, Sonangol, has exercised its right of first refusal to purchase a 20% stake in block 32 offshore Angola from Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE:MRO). In July, Marathon announced that…
Now that we are out of the woods in the crash scenario, assuming this week is no ill omen, investors may want to know which of the big companies would start to…
The Times of London claims that people within the British government turned over convicted Lockerbie bombing participant Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi to Libya as part of an attempt to secure a major…