Integrated Oil & Gas

Eni SpA (NYSE: E), Italy's largest oil company, said its fourth-quarter adjusted jumped 24% to $2.32 billion thanks to increased demand and higher oil prices, generally the same reasons all of the world's oil majors have been citing for their respective increases in fourth-quarter profits. Eni...

PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Long ETN (NYSE: DAG) fell 3.63% in the regular trading session on Tuesday, and it gained 0.59% in the after hours. DAG traded lower as wheat, and soybeans futures contracts struggled. PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Long ETN (DAG) closed at $15.38 today, and it...

PowerShares DB Agriculture Double Short ETN (NYSE: AGA) spiked 6.19% on Tuesday, as grains struggled. Wheat futures contracts were the worst performer in the group. It dropped more than 3% today. Cotton futures traded higher today, along with iPath Dow Jones-UBS Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN (...

Ecuador is ordering Chevron (NYSE: CVX) to pay billions in clean up from destroying the country's rain forests. If Chevron doesn't publicly apologize in the next 15 days, the judge ordered the company to pay twice that amount. It also has to rub Ecuador's belly and promise to be it's best friend...

After the lightest trading day of the year yesterday, the markets kicked it up a notch. They opened lower after retail sales came in below expectations. After an initial move higher from the gap down, the markets sold sharply as the Dollar gained. Then, as the lunch time volume kicked in, the...

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) announced today that additions to its proved reserves in 2010 totaled 3.5 billion oil-equivalent barrels, replacing 209 percent of production. Excluding the impact of asset sales, reserves additions replaced 211 percent of production.

CNBC Fast Money's Karen Finerman said, in the segment of the show called Fast Money Pops & Drops, that she likes BP plc (ADR) (NYSE: BP). She has a long position in this stock, and she plans to stay long after today's move higher. BP plc (ADR) (BP) gained 1.94%, and closed at $46.69. Pete...

Direxion Daily Energy Bull 3X Shares(ETF) (NYSE: ERX) led the gainers among the ETFs on Monday, with a 6.64% gain. In the energy space, Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) jumped 6.10%, while Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) spiked 7.94%. ProShares Ultra Silver (ETF) (NYSE: AGQ) gained 4.93% in the...

Today the markets continued it move higher in a relatively lack luster way compared to Fridays action when the turmoil in Egypt soften with Hosni Mubarak stepping down as president.  The strong buying in the markets continues as two of the major three indexes make new 52 week highs.  The Dow Jones...

According to Reuters, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) has been fined $8 billion by an Ecuadorian court in environmental damages. An Ecuadorean lawyer said that a court in the Amazon city of Lago Agrio ordered the oil giant to pay the fine. The lawsuit originally sought $27 billion in damages. Shares of...

Rewind and replay, that is the motto of the stock market each day. Stocks like Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) gap lower, only to have the buy programs hit via the Federal Reserve's POMO QE-2. These stocks then move higher, minute after minute, keeping the markets floating in the neutral to...

It has been another fun-filled week for U.S. stocks and ETFs as nothing, not slack earnings, not Egypt seems to be able to derail this market. These are painful days to be short much of anything, but let's have a look at where some profitable ETF opportunities lie for next week's trading. 1) Market...

ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) today approved a 2011 capital program of $13.5 billion, representing a significant increase in Exploration and Production segment expenditures. Almost 90 percent of the capital program will be in support of E&P, while the Refining and Marketing segment represents...

Below are the top major integrated oil & gas stocks on the NYSE in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Exxon Mobil Corporation Common (NYSE: XOM) is 23.61%. NILE's PEG ratio is 1.06. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Total SA (NYSE: TOT) is 19.88...

On CNBC's Fast Money, Brian Kelly said that he wants to buy iShares Gold Trust(ETF) (NYSE: IAU) on Friday. iShares Gold Trust(ETF) (NYSE: IAU) fell 0.15% in the regular trading session, but it added 0.23% in the after hours. Dennis Gartman said that he is a buyer of gold, Canada and Aussie, and he...