Integrated Oil & Gas

We took a look to find the dividend giants in the energy space. Here's are the oil and natural stocks we uncovered. BP p.l.c. (BP): BP p.l.c. is still recovering from the April 2010, oil spill, reporting profit and operating margins in the negatives at -1.25% and -4.58%, respectively. However, the...

Chevron (NYSE: CVX) reports a leak on line at Sweeny Chemical Plant.

BP (NYSE: BP) may win Brazil approval for $3.2B devon deal, Bloomberg reports

The Cassandras of the media beat the drums of fear concerning Japan's millennial tragedy, which has been a confluence of perfect storms. There has been a great deal of bad news coming out of Japan which the press has spun into a blanket condemnation of the entire nuclear industry. It is only a...

Stocks look poised to push higher again this week. The S&P 500 is on the cusp of a break above resistance at 1,335. And that would likely set up a test of the post-crash highs at 1,344. But as Jason Cimpl told his TradeMaster Daily Stock Alerts members this...

BP (NYSE: BP) has announced that it has agreed to sell its subsidiary ARCO Aluminum to a Japanese consortium comprised of Sumitomo Light Metal Industries (40 percent), Furukawa Sky Aluminum (35 percent), Sumitomo Corporation (20 percent), Itochu Corporation (2 percent) and Itochu Metals Corporation...

Deutsche Bank will be hosting ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Vice President-Investor Relations and Secretary in New York this week. This note features a list of potential questions for the company, with a longer term analysis of management, strategy, and results, as well as complete net asset value, P&...

Ctrip.com International Ltd (NASDAQ: CTRP) was upgraded by Susquehanna from "neutral" to "positive." CTRP's shares closed at $42.84 yesterday. CTRP's trailing-twelve-month operating margin is 36.59%. JP Morgan upgraded ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) from “neutral” to “overweight.” COP's shares closed...

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) was downgraded by RBC Capital from "outperform" to "sector perform." OXY's shares closed at $103.52 yesterday. Occidental Petroleum's trailing-twelve-month ROA is 9.52%. ThinkEquity downgraded Meru Networks Inc (NASDAQ: MERU) from “buy” to “hold.” MERU'...

BP (NYSE: BP) could resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as early as July. Hmmm. It's not like BP did anything wrong there, right? End sarcasm. A Republican plan for the 2012 budget would cut more than $4 trillion over the next decade. Cuts and Washington go as well together as oil & water...

A couple of weeks ago, we touched on several strong ETF plays that track the energy sector that don't get a lot of fanfare. Regardless of that lack of acclaim, those funds all represent viable options for profiting from rising oil prices. Well, the good news is there are even more energy ETFs that...

Shares of BP plc (NYSE: BP) have given up the majority of its gains seen earlier in the session on news that United States Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Lee "Ken" Salazar said that there has been no deal reached for the company to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. At last check, shares...

ConocoPhillips(NYSE: COP) is declining lower by 0.40 cents to $79.28 a share. This leading integrated energy stock has come under some mild selling pressure over the past three trading sessions. Short term scalp traders can watch the $78.85 area for intra-day support. This is a likely short term...

Most quantitative traders and investors love the concept of momentum or relative strength based investing. The reasons are obvious: 1) it makes intuitive sense that more money is made switching between stocks that have the highest compound growth rate 2) even the crustiest and most cynical...

Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bear 3x Shares(ETF) (NYSE: EDZ) dropped 4.64% today as CNOOC Limited (ADR) (NYSE: CEO) jumped 2.42%, and Banco Bradesco SA (ADR) (NYSE: BBD) gained 1.35%. ProShares Ultrashort MSCI Brazil (NYSE: BZQ) lost 4.35% on Friday, and it closed at $13.80. Petroleo Brasileiro...