Marathon Petroleum Corp
NYSE: MPC
$152.70
+$1.00 (+0.7%)
Closing Price on January 17, 2025
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ThinkstockLast year was a good year for oil and gas stocks, but unless a company had a refining and marketing operation, it was not a great year. Share prices rose by at least 80% for pure-play...
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U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as investors weighed conflicting data from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In Europe, retail sales declined more than expected in Germany, Italy’s...
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ThinkstockOil refiners Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) and Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. Marathon posted diluted...
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U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the U.S. Department of Commerce reported that personal income and spending both rose by 0.2%, which was slightly higher than expected for spending...
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ThinkstockAfter Leading the S&P 500 and the energy sector for the past two years, and into the first quarter of this year, the U.S. refining sector hit a rough patch in March. A narrowing of...
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ThinkstockShare prices appreciated by at least 80% for most major crude oil refiners in 2012, a far better performance than turned in by the integrated oil companies, the oil services firms and,...
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ThinkstockIn the energy sector, 2012 was the year of the refiner. Stock prices appreciated at least 80% for most of them, while the supermajor integrated companies were only able to tally gains in...
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Thinkstock BP, Texas City refineryWhen oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reported a big earnings beat this morning, it was almost inevitable that the halo would also appear above the other...
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ThinkstockCrude oil transportation on the Seaway pipeline resumed today at the pipeline’s full capacity of 400,000 barrels a day now available to shippers wanting to move crude from the storage...
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thinkstockLooking back on 2012, it is hard to discern the biggest story in the oil and gas sector. The reshuffling of assets was certainly a contender, as was the huge growth in U.S. oil production....
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ThinkstockLast night’s agreement on a fiscal cliff deal is lifting the commodities markets this morning, especially for crude oil. Traders are reacting to the now-lessened chance of a global...
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ThinkstockLooking back on 2012, it is hard to discern the biggest story in the oil and gas sector. The reshuffling of assets is certainly a contender, as is the huge growth in U.S. oil production....
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ThinkstockWhen Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reported second quarter earnings last July, the company said it would seek a tax-efficient spin-off of its retail business. In a presentation to...
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The list of the best stocks of 2012 on the S&P 500 Index is one which makes sense in some cases and doesn’t in other cases. Some of these are simply recovery situations from lows but a few are...
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U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following another week with more than 400,000 new claims for jobless benefits (more coverage here) and weak news from Japan on exports. In...
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