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Cheseapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) CEO Aubrey McClendon laid it on the line in an interview with Bloomberg News: We are presently owned by a group of investors who don’t think gas prices will...
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Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) Reiterated Hold at...
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It isn’t every day that a $7.1 billion deal falls through. Even rarer is a seller’s reaction that amounts to, “What, me worry?” But that’s what occurred over the weekend as BP plc (NYSE:...
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These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Despite the weakness, there are still upgrades taking...
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The boom in US natural gas drilling resulting from the technological advances of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is beginning to spread to the rest of the world. In some countries, like...
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China is taking American jobs, labor unions, politicians and economists, have accused for some time. The logic is simple. While a manufacturing job in the U.S. may pay $50 an hour, when salary and...
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None of China’s three largest oil companies is having a particularly good year as far as refining profits go. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (NYSE: SNP) — known as Sinopec — reported a...
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Companies that provide the tools and services to clean up oil spills made the news following last year’s disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Speciality chemical companies that make the fluids used to...
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Another day, another energy acquisition by a Chinese firm. This time its Cnooc Ltd. (NYSE: CEO) putting out about $2.1 billion for Toronto-traded Canadian oil sands developer Opti Canada. In addition...
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Can any accounting out of China be trusted? This is what prudent investors have to start asking themselves. Since early this year a new report comes out nearly every week that reveals some...
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Anadarko Petroleum Co. (NYSE: APC) has agreed to sell a stake in its Eagle Ford shale play to the Korean National Oil Company, KNOC, for $1.55 billion. KNOC’s investment gives Korea about a...
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Ever since 2005, when its offer to buy Unocal was withdrawn following cries of political rage, Cnooc Ltd. (NYSE: CEO) and other Chinese oil companies kept a low profile on acquisitions, particularly...
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For the second time in two weeks, Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) has announced a deal with a Japanese company to help expand Molycorp’s Mountain Pass rare earth element mine. Two weeks ago it was...
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Now that BP plc (NYSE: BP) has topped $20 billion in divestments to help pay for the estimated $40 billion in damage caused by its Macondo well blow-out in April, the company is turning to developing...
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These are some of this Tuesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Brightpoint Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Chesapeake Energy...
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