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19 Jul 2010 11:16

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Biz: Despised company does well: Haliburton makes huge profit jump

  • $480M the company’s net income in the current quarter
  • 83% the increase in net income from the previous quarter
  • 3.6% the amount the company’s stock leaped today source
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29 Apr 2010 09:45

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Biz: Exxon Mobil’s huge profits somehow not good enough

  • $6.3
    billion     the size of Exxon Mobil’s
    quarterly profits, helped by rising
    oil prices of late
  • 38%
     increase     from last year’s levels –
    an increase which missed Wall Street’s hefty estimates source
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01 Feb 2010 08:51

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Biz: Exxon Mobil has a crappy quarter of not-record profits

  • 23% decline in their massive oil-driven profits source
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30 Jul 2009 09:56

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Biz: Don’t cry for Exxon Mobil and their huge decrease in profit

  • 66% lower decline in profits for Exxon Mobil in the second quarter
  • $3.95 billion current profit size for the world’s largest company source
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29 Jul 2009 10:12

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Biz: ConocoPhillips still makes bank with huge profit losses

  • 76% decline the loss in net income during the second quarter for oil giant ConocoPhillips
  • $1
    billion     the size of the profit the company still made despite those massive losses; must be nice. source
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08 Jul 2009 11:00

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Biz: Fortune’s Global 500 proves Big Oil, Wal-Mart has us at the throats

  • seven of the top ten companies on the list are oil companies, with Shell being the biggest; Toyota is No. 10
  • third the rank of Wal-Mart, the highest-ranked non-oil-related company on the Fortune Global 500 source
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