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ThinkstockEach of the independent refiners to report second-quarter earnings so far have shown year-over-year declines, reflective of a sluggish demand…
August 2, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a mixed report on U.S. employment. The monthly report…
Jon OggIt is Friday and the markets have another monthly employment report to absorb, but Wall Street analysts also have…
ThinkstockCrude oil refiners have taken some heavy hits in the past couple of months. Because the cost of crude contributes…
ThinkstockCrude oil refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) announced a cut to its second-quarter earnings estimates well after markets closed…
ThinkstockWhen supermajor oil companies like Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A) pick a new chief executive officer, the new appointment…
ThinkstockOver the past 12 months, the best performing oil refining stock has been Tesoro Corp. (NYSE: TSO), which has doubled,…
ThinkstockWhen U.S. crude oil supplies remain very high, U.S. drivers can usually depend on gasoline pump prices to fall. That…
ThinkstockLast year was a good year for oil and gas stocks, but unless a company had a refining and marketing…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as investors weighed conflicting data from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In Europe,…
ThinkstockOil refiners Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) and Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the U.S. Department of Commerce reported that personal income and spending both…
ThinkstockAfter Leading the S&P 500 and the energy sector for the past two years, and into the first quarter of…
ThinkstockShare prices appreciated by at least 80% for most major crude oil refiners in 2012, a far better performance than…
ThinkstockIn the energy sector, 2012 was the year of the refiner. Stock prices appreciated at least 80% for most of…
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