That surprising statement is the upshot of a new survey released by polling service Harris Interactive Inc. (NASDAQ:HPOL).
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June 17 - News
While new technologies such as fracking and horizontal drilling are largely responsible for the boom in U.S.
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June 17 - News
According to a recent report by Ernst & Young, which surveyed more than 100 energy company executives from 90 companies in 21 countries, oil and gas companies' top priority is...
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June 17 - News
Investor excitement flows through the air: for the first time ever, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) broke 15,000.
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June 17 - News
Tax reform can be a powerful incentive for energy companies to increase spending on capital projects.
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June 17 - News
After trading quietly during the first hour of the day, the Dow Jones Industrials have fallen into the red, down 83 points, or 0.55%, as of 12:15 p.m. EDT.
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June 14 - News
Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) hit a new 52-week high two weeks ago. Chevron is a stable stock, with a beta of 1.17.
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June 13 - News
Yesterday's jitters have carried through to today's market session.
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June 12 - News
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) claims that it is committed to "having a workplace that is free from any form of harassment or discrimination" so it can foster an environment...
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June 12 - News
In the search for investment opportunities in the oil and gas business, I came across Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO), the Norwegian integrated energy company.
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June 12 - News
In a previous article entitled A Dividend Watchlist for the Pullback I put a buy target on three currently overpriced dividend stocks and suggested keeping a watchlist to take...
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June 11 - News
We usually hear and read about drilling plans, new discoveries and valuable tenders being signed by oil and gas companies.
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June 11 - News
There is no disputing that equities have been on a tear as governments and central banks take ever increasing measures to keep the global economy growing.
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June 11 - News
Fear sown by the 2007 market crash is likely to recede slowly, says Narayana Kocherlakota, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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June 11 - News
Less than a month after "retiring" as CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK), Aubrey McClendon decided it was time to get back to work.
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June 11 - News
A trailblazer in the global energy industry, Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) has matched, stride by stride, the Dow Jones Industrial Average so far in 2013, under-performing...
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June 11 - News
We all know it's always best to buy when stocks are inexpensive, but we must also observe the opposite and sell when stocks appear over-priced.
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June 10 - News
There has been a lot in the news about major U.S.
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June 10 - News
Modern finance explains that investors are compensated for increased risk with a possible increase in returns. A look at the small upstream firm SandRidge Energy Inc.
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June 7 - News
Following two years of underwhelming world GDP growth, the OECD forecasts that world real gross domestic product will increase by more than 3% in 2013 and by 4% in 2014.
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June 7 - News
Shares of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC) are poised to continue to hit new highs as the company benefits from a much more healthy environment for natural gas producers...
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June 6 - News
On the face of it, there's nothing similar between cigarettes, software, and oil.
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June 6 - News
In the past several days, the price of natural gas tumbled lower. Despite its recent fall, the price of natural gas is still higher than where it was trading last year.
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June 6 - News
So today, I am going to come across as a little controversial. I truly do respect Dick Bove, and I honestly believe he is a brilliant analyst. I, like him, have covered banks.
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June 5 - News
Several years ago Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) and Synthetic Genomics (SGI) attempted perhaps the largest and most ambitious photosynthetic algae project in history.
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June 5 - News
Though Shell recently said it would "pause" its Alaska oil campaign due to various setbacks, other oil majors are getting to ready plow more investment dollars into the potentially...
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June 5 - News
Investors received a little good news and a little better-than-expected news today.
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June 4 - News
The market has had a great run so far this year, up over 16% since the end of 2012.
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June 3 - News
In mid May, Cliff Asness’s AQR Capital Management filed its 13F with the SEC, disclosing many of the fund’s long equity positions in U.S. stocks as of the end of March.
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June 3 - Hedge Funds
Over the past few years, the large Western oil majors have been plagued by projects running substantially over budget, and taking much longer to complete than initially estimated...
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June 3 - News
BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP) (ADR) is a global leader in oil and gas with operations in more than 80 countries.
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May 31 - News
Most of us tend to think of the nearly two-year-old bloody uprising in Syria as being far removed from what is still the center of the world's oil and gas production, and thereby...
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May 31 - News
Dividend investing is difficult.
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May 30 - News
The stock market by its precise nature is volatile, with high rewards for some and serious risk for others.
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May 30 - News
Lately, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been hitting record high after record high. That has a lot of people wondering whether we're entering bubble territory.
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May 30 - News
Companies in the Dow Jones Industrials typically have not only solid profits but also create immense amounts of cash flow, much of which they turn around and return to investors...
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May 30 - News
For some time now Colombia’s Ecopetrol S.A.
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May 29 - News
I'm of the opinion that all investors should have some energy fueling their portfolios.
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May 29 - News
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) is the world's largest publicly traded company and it continues to offer a lot of value to investors.
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May 28 - News
For the past year, crude oil prices have generally traded in a band between about $85 per barrel on the low side and approaching $100 on the high side.
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May 28 - News
Its citizens may drive on the "wrong" side of the road, but Australia is set to become the driving force for Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) stock.
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May 28 - News
For a couple of months now, we've been anticipating an annoucement from InterOil Corporation (USA) (NYSE:IOC) to see whom it will select as its operations partner.
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May 28 - News
Recently two of my colleagues each wrote an article looking at two different metrics and found the same company was the best in both.
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May 28 - News
Unfortunately, the world is filled with deceptive stock "tips" that are designed to rip you off.
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May 28 - News
According to Iraq’s oil minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi, the country has 150 billion barrels of oil reserves, and this doesn’t include resources from the autonomous Kurdish...
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May 24 - News
Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) was in 43 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of March. CVX investors should pay attention to a decrease in hedge fund interest in recent months.
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May 24 - News
The US is one step closer to becoming an energy export giant. Back in May 2011, Cheniere Energy, Inc.
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May 24 - News
Billionaire Seth Klarman, the "Oracle of Boston," disclosed in his latest 13F filing that he has added to his position in BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP).
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May 24 - Hedge Funds
MLPs are the most stable way to get exposure to the U.S. energy boom in natural gas and oil.
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May 24 - News