Integrated Oil & Gas

For over a year now, investing in Europe has been a tricky bet to put it kindly, but there has been a stark, positive exception to that rule. While the PIGS have floundered, weighing on other Eurozone members in the process, the Nordic region has offered not only refuge, but positive returns as...

1.) Retail With a long a heavy winter, consumer-spending habits will show a bright side along with the warmer weather. Couple this with an improved economic outlook and this should boost retail stocks. The ones to concentrate on will correlate directly with the season. Even without a positive...

BP (NYSE: BP) and the Gulf of Mexico Alliance announced today that the independent Research Board of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative has released its Request for Proposals for studies into the effects of the Deepwater Horizon incident and the potential associated impact on the environment...

For 1Q'11, Citi estimates that Marathon Oil Corporation's (NYSE: MRO) overall R&M earnings will be $684 million compared to $213 million in 4Q'10. “We estimate an overall wholesale margin of $0.20 per gallon compared to $0.09 per gallon in 4Q'10,” Citi writes. “The large increase in the margin...

France's Total (NYSE: TOT), Europe's third-largest oil company, is looking to increase its output in Russia in significant fashion over the next decade, aiming to ratchet up its production there by more than 30-fold to 300,000-400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2020, according to...

For all the attention that oil gets in the mainstream media and for all the gushing (no pun intended) analysts and pundits do about oil equities and ETFs, there are still names in this universe that are still fairly anonymous. To be fair, that may be a symptom of numbers. There are hundreds of...

Tepid volume on Thursday indicated many traders had left early to get a jump on the three-day weekend. They should enjoy the extra day of rest and fun because next week is shaping up to be a busy one with myriad marquee earnings reports and even more importantly, the widely anticipated Federal...

There are plenty of benefits to owning stocks that pay their dividends monthly. According to the Excel list that was just updated by WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, there are over 200 different companies that pay dividends monthly, many of which have high yields. Technically, these stocks are real...

ProShares Ultra Silver (ETF) (NYSE: AGQ) gained 6.36% on Thursday as silver continued its uptrend. This was the seventh consecutive trading session that AGQ closed higher. Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3x Shares (ETF) (NYSE: TYH) jumped 3.10% today, and it closed at $48.91. In the technology...

On Wednesday, we examined the differences between the new First Trust South Korea AlphaDEX Fund (NYSE: FKO) and the well-heeled iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund (NYSE: EWY). In that examination, we turned up some noteworthy differences between the two ETFs that, at the very least, indicate there...

There is always going to be some debate in the world of investing between value and growth. Some argue that value stocks outperform growth stocks, but naysayers will question the time periods in which it takes for value plays to outshine growth stars. Years? Decades? Longer? Obviously, growth...

BP Plc (NYSE: BP) is suing Transocean (NYSE: RIG) for damages stemming from the Deepwater Horizon rig blowup last April, and is seeking at least $40 billion in damages and other costs. Japan (NYSE: EWJ) has been advised by the OECD to raise its sales tax to help pay for the construction following...

British Petroleum (NYSE: BP) commits to early restoration projects along gulf coast.

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) announced today that an affiliate of BP plc (NYSE: BP) on April 20, 2011 filed a cross-claim against Transocean entities in the existing Multi-District Litigation proceeding in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana for contribution pursuant to the Oil...

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) has filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit in federal court in New York seeking to block enforcement and recognition of a judgment entered against the company in Lago Agrio, Ecuador. The amended complaint cites newly discovered evidence that the Lago Agrio...