Integrated Oil & Gas

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. (NYSE: KOG) today provided an interim corporate update. Kodiak currently operates a two-rig-drilling program in the Williston Basin and anticipates taking delivery of a third rig within the next two weeks. The Company is currently negotiating to contract a fourth rig...

Mitsui & Co. Ltd (MITSY)- Mkt cap- 30.59B, P/E- 7.61, Div/yield- 2.45/1.21, EPS- 43.94 Competitors- Itochu Corporation (ITOCY), Marubeni Corp (MARUY), SUMITOMO CORPORATION (SSUMY)- Shoei Utsuda- Chairman of the Board , Masami Iijima- President, Chief Executive Officer, Junichi Matsumoto-...

BP plc (BP)- The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, established last August with $20 billion in seed money from BP, said it has approved 300,000 claims from businesses and individuals hurt by the spill, out of approximately 857,000 claims submitted. Poor trading results are likely to hurt Goldman Sachs...

Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bear 3x Shares(ETF) (NYSE: EDZ) spiked 7.41% on Monday as Petroleo Brasileiro SA (ADR) (NYSE: PBR) dropped 3.91%, and Vale (ADR) (NYSE: VALE) fell 2.23%. Direxion Daily Developed Markets Bear 3x Shares(ETF) (NYSE: DPK) traded 5.87% higher today. DPK closed at $35.74...

Provident Energy (NYSE: PVX) announced today that it has reached an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters, co-led by TD Securities Inc., and National Bank Financial and including BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., RBC Capital Markets, Scotia Capital Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp...

Analysts at Credit Suisse downgrade TOTAL SA (NYSE: TOT) from “neutral” to “underperform.” TOT shares fell 0.13% to close at $60.40 on Friday. More Analyst Ratings here

Johnson & Johnson Inc. (JNJ) is in talks to buy Swiss medical-device maker Synthes Inc. $20 billion. Charles Schwab (SCHW) a discount broker, declared boosted profit for the first quarter as earnings reached $243.00 million, or $0.20 per share, from a year earlier $6.00 million, or a lesser...

Michael Bromwich, Director of Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Says That BP (NYSE: BP) Doesn't See Any Added U.S. Requirements To Drill, Reported By Bloomberg.

While the disaster is Japan will take many years to be put right, there is a very important lesson that can easily be overlooked in the rush to stop radioactive leaks and repair the damage. Like New Orleans where the leveeswere known to be a problem area, Japan's nuclear reactors were living on...

China's voracious desire for all things energy-related, be it coal, oil or related fare, has energy producers in the world's fastest-growing major economy ready to make a deal. Well, actually a lot of deals and that deal-making could mean China sets its sights on Australia for potential targets....

TNK-Rosneft Shareholders Reject Share Swap with BP, According to a Reuters Report (NYSE: BP). The Reuters report can be found here.

The world's largest electronics retailer by sales Best Buy Co. (BBY) plan to grow its online and mobile businesses while scaling back its “big box” retail space as part of a broader strategy to combat declining sales and rising competition. China's economy grew at a slightly slower rate in the...

On CNBC's Fast Money, Brian Kelly recommended Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) as a buy. Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) fell 0.74% today, and it closed at $77.73. Guy Adami thinks that Research In Motion Limited (USA) (NASDAQ: RIMM) should be bought on Friday. Research In Motion Limited...

Posted April 14, 2011 Below find a featured post from a newsletter we are helping launch – The RealFinance Commodity Analyst – for more info, see here: RealFinance Investor Newsletters. Recent activity in energy markets has obviously been influenced heavily by unrest in the Middle East and North...

So you want dividends and international developed markets exposure all in ETF that isn't as volatile as a triple-leveraged oil play but one that isn't boring as an ETF that tracks utilities? Well, there might be an ETF for that: The WisdomTree International Dividend ex-Financials Fund (NYSE: DOO...