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28 Jul 2011 10:58

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Biz: Exxon Mobil’s back to their track record of insanely massive profits

  • 41% the increase in Exxon Mobil’s profits in the current quarter
  • $10.7B the amount the company made in the second quarter (kind of a lot)
  • $14.8B the company’s largest quarter ever (in 2008), just for perspective source

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

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

14 Dec 2009 10:52

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Biz: Per usual, Exxon Mobil can’t pass gas, buys XTO instead

  • $31 billion all-stock deal for the natural gas company source

29 Oct 2009 10:25

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Biz: Exxon Mobil’s unbelievable record profits couldn’t last forever

  • $45.2 billion the size of Exxon Mobil’s profits in 2008, helped by super-high oil prices; in other words, they didn’t need a bailout
  • -68% decline Exxon Mobil’s drop in third-quarter earnings; they’re still very profitable, just not THAT level of record profitability source

19 Jul 2009 15:34

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Biz: Why Exxon is an evil, unbelievably greedy company

  • profits Over the years, Exxon Mobil has been making major profits at levels larger than most of the countries in the world. They’re No. 2 on Fortune’s Global 500.
  • sabotage Over the last 17 years, after a deal that went sour, they’ve actively sabotaged oil fields in Texas, filling them with junk and plugging up wells with explosives.
  • fine In response to all of this, the company could have to pay some $1 billion in fines to the state – which, considering, seems a bit like a slap on the wrist. source