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Exxon Mobil News Archives for October 2009

Oct 31, 2009 | AME Info

ExxonMobil Egypt participates in two major industrial exhibitions

Egypt: 50 minutes ago PRESS RELEASE ExxonMobil Egypt is participating in this year's Mactech and Airtech exhibitions, set to take place later this month in Cairo.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Marketing

Oct 31, 2009 | Gulf Times

Exxon, Shell report huge fall in profits

Tillerson: - Well-positioned with projects such as QatarGas, RasGas and Gorgon LNG' ExxonMobil yesterday said its quarterly profit fell 68%, missing Wall Street estimates, as the global recession bit into fuel demand and crude oil prices fell from year-ago levels.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Oct 31, 2009 | Blogging Stocks

Closing Bell: Just tricks, no treats

Filed under: Exxon Mobil , Citigroup Inc. , CIT Group Today was mired by awful spending and income data as many are actually now not believing that high GDP figure from yesterday.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, CIT Group, Financial Services

Fri Oct 30, 2009

National Post

Subsidies at centre of Mackenzie Valley Pipeline problem

Andrew Swiger, an executive at Exxon Mobil Corp., which plays a key role in the future of the ill-fated Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, had a few words to say about government intervention at a breakfast speech in Calgary on Friday.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, North America, Canada, World News

Forbes

Exxon Struggles To Move The Needle

Financially, ExxonMobil's third quarter was in line with its Big Oil peers, but the takeaway from its report is that productionwise, the world's largest energy company is running flat out just to stay in place.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

New York Times

Exxon's Earnings Reflect Decline in Energy Prices

Exxon Mobil , the world's biggest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday that its profit fell 68 percent in the third quarter as oil and natural gas prices slumped from last year's highs.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Business News

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Houston Chronicle

ConocoPhillips profit drops 71 percent

ConocoPhillips, the U.S. oil company that announced plans this month for $10 billion in divestitures, said third-quarter profit fell 71 percent after a collapse in crude and natural-gas prices.

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Related Topix: ConocoPhillips, Energy, Oil & Gas, Houston Metro, Irving, TX, Chevron Corporation

Canada.com

Imperial Oil profit sags on low prices, refining

CALGARY, Alberta -- Third-quarter profit at Imperial Oil Ltd fell 61% on lower prices for oil and natural gas and weaker refining results, Canadaa s No.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Canada,

ClipSyndicate

Weiss Says Exxon Had a `Decent' Quarter: Video

Oct. 29 -- Philip Weiss, an analyst at Argus Research, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about Exxon Mobil Corp.'s third-quarter earnings reported today and outlook for the oil refining market.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Video, Business News

Reuters

Oil companies give cool outlook as profits tumble

Exxon Mobil Corp, Royal Dutch Shell Plcand Eni SpA dashed hopes of an imminent turnaround for the oil industry, saying a sluggish economic recovery was weighing on energy demand and prices.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Denton Record-Chronicle

Exxon Mobil's 4Q profit declines as fuel demand slumps 7:12 Am CT

Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. company, reported a fourth straight drop in profit after demand slumped for fuels to run cars, trucks, factories and airplanes.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA

Wed Oct 28, 2009

The Motley Fool

4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: ExxonMobil

David Gardner called it. Hea TMs up 1,334%! See what Davida TMs recommending that you buy NEXT.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets, Irving, TX

The Age

A Wall Street sign is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell overnight as investors booked profits following the stock market's recent run-up, while a weaker-than-expected reading on a measure of consumer confidence sparked caution about the recovery of spending.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Energy, Oil & Gas, Chevron Corporation

TheStreet.com

Senate Debates Aid for Green-Energy Efforts

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday kicked off three days of hearings to discuss the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, an 821-page bill meant to create green-technology jobs and reduce global warming.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Oil & Gas, Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Solar Energy

Gulf Times

ExxonMobil eyes new investments in 'stable' Qatar

ExxonMobil, the world's largest integrated petroleum and natural gas company, is looking at boosting investments in Qatar, where it has already spent in excess of $13bn on numerous gas-related projects.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Tue Oct 27, 2009

CBC

Prentice mum on pipeline status

The 1,220-kilometre proposed pipeline would carry natural gas from the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories south to the Alberta border.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, TransCanada, Natural Gas

Xinhuanet

Crude lost 2.3% to settle below $79 as the dollar rebounded from a 14-month low against the euro.

U.S. stocks fell on Monday, as commodities prices were pressured by a rising dollar and financial shares tumbled.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Energy, Oil & Gas, 9

The Baltimore Sun

Exxon asks U.S. court to dismiss operators' suit

An attorney for Exxon Mobil Corp. argued yesterday in federal court for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by dozens of Maryland gas station operators who have sued the petroleum giant for making moves to sell their stations in a way that they say could violate federal and state laws and possibly force them out of their own businesses.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Maryland, Small Business, Personal Finance, Greenbelt, MD, Deale, MD

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Gulf Times

ExxonMobil in talks with QP for mega petchem JV

ExxonMobil senior vice-president Mark W Albers says the company's approach has been long-term and it has not retrenched its personnel because of the global downturn ExxonMobil is in discussions with QP to develop a world-scale petrochemical complex in Qatar, ExxonMobil senior vice-president Mark W Albers has said.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Sun Oct 25, 2009

KVII

Possible pay cut for Hutchison?

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison would have to take a pay cut if she's elected governor, but her husband's income, a multimillion dollar investment portfolio and other assets have already contributed to significant family wealth.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Energy, Oil & Gas, Texas Government, Texas, Rick Perry, US Governors, Law

Macon Area Online

Wall Street Week Ahead

Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:45am EDT - A Wall St. sign is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange, September 30, 2008.

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Related Topix: New York, Energy, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Alaska Journal of Commerce

'Capitalism' grows - and that's not a bad thing

To hear some tell it, we should despise capitalism and all of its despicable trappings.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Opinion

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Money Morning

Hot Stocks: How the a oeBeta Chasea Could Spark a Major Breakout for Exxon

The shares of energy-sector heavyweight ExxonMobil Corp. could return to their highs for the year - a run of 10% or better - thanks to a bull-market event that I like to describe as the "beta chase." Large-cap stocks rose quite a bit more than their small-cap brethren last week, leading me to believe that we're witnessing a shift in the balance of ...

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets, Occidental Petroleum

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Messenger

BP looking at Kosmos bid: report

BP Plc has had talks with Ghana's national oil company about a possible joint bid for Kosmos Energy's stake in the huge Jubilee oilfield off the coast of the country, Bloomberg said on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

The Motley Fool

Pension Woes Lay Lockheed Low

Recessions are tough on business . They're even tougher on employees . But not at Lockheed Martin .

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Aerospace-Defense, Lockheed Martin, Banking, Wells Fargo , Financial Services, Wireless, Telecom, Motorola, Air Courier, Transportation, FedEx, Rubber-Plastics, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Energy

Wed Oct 21, 2009

The US Market Blog

Wednesday Options Recap

Stocks are holding modest gains in a day of relatively quiet market action Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Wells Fargo , Banking, Financial Services, SanDisk, Semiconductors, Electronics, Computers, Energy, Oil & Gas, Chevron Corporation, 9

Tue Oct 20, 2009

The Moscow Times

Iraq Lures Oil Field Bid From LUKoil

Five bids from 11 companies, including Exxon Mobil and Total, were placed for the West Qurna-1 field during Iraq's first postwar licensing round in June.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Bloomberg

Oil Search Seeks $822 Million After Scrapping Abu Dhabi Project Stake Sale

Oil Search Ltd. plans to raise A$895 million in a share sale after terminating plans to sell a stake in a Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas venture to Abu Dhabia s energy investment arm.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Papua New Guinea, Oceania, World News

Bloomberg.com - Asia

China May Stumble in Pursuit of African Oil Assets as Exxon, Rivals Strike

Chinaa s plans to buy into oil fields in Africa may suffer a third setback in as many months if Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, World News, China, Asia, Cnooc

Houston Chronicle

NYC finds Exxon liable in pollution lawsuit

Exxon Mobil Corp. was found liable for poisoning New York City water wells with a gasoline additive meant to improve air quality, in a trial in which the city seeks $250.5 million to treat the water.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, New York, Chevron Corporation

Sun Oct 18, 2009

MarketWatch

Oil Search says LNG stake sale terminated

Oil Search Ltd. on Monday announced the shock termination of a deal that would have helped it fund the development of a multibillion gas export project in Papua New Guinea and said it would launch an equity raising instead.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Papua New Guinea, Oceania, World News, Chevron Corporation

MarketWatch

Anadarko, Tullow tout new Jubilee well

Tullow Oil and Anadarko Petroleum announced positive results at wells in the Jubilee field in Ghana in a move that will likely fuel speculation of more deal-making in West Africa.

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Related Topix: Anadarko Petroleum, Oil & Gas, Cote d'Ivoire, World News, Energy

Sat Oct 17, 2009

The News Tribune

Iraq approves oil deal with BP-led consortium

Oil prices reached a fresh one-year high above US$75 a barrel Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 boosted by a weaker U.S. dollar and growing investor optimism about an economic recovery.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Energy, Oil & Gas,

The China Stock Blog

The Top 20 Chinese Value Stocks

China's rapid economic growth will be the global story of the foreseeable future.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Financial Markets, Best of 2007, Train Disaster, Energy, Oil & Gas, Warren Buffett

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Central Jersey

St. Helena's School in Edison receives ExxonMobil grant

St. Helena School, 930 Grove Ave., Edison, has received a $750 grant from the ExxonMobil Educational Alliance program to support the school's science program.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Thu Oct 15, 2009

The Journal Record

Exxon treasurer targets global Catch-22

TULSA Can even a corporate titan like Exxon Mobil tackle the world's developing-nation energy needs while addressing vital environmental concerns? Donald Humphreys, senior vice president and treasurer of Exxon Mobil Corp., speaks at the Friends of Finance luncheon in Tulsa Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, University of Tulsa, Irving, TX

The Journal Record

Texas heavy industries worry about EPA crackdown

DALLAS For 15 years, environmentalists have complained that state regulations have allowed the powerful oil and chemical industries to skirt Clean Air Act standards in Texas, the nation's foremost producer of industrial air pollution.

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Related Topix: Texas Government, Texas, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Oil & Gas, Science, Ecology

Bloomberg

Exxon Won't Face Punitive Damages in New York Water Well Poisoning Case

Exxon Mobil Corp. wona t face punitive damages in a trial in which New York City accuses it of poisoning water wells with a gasoline additive meant to improve air quality, the trial judge said.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, New York, US News

Wed Oct 14, 2009

ABC News - Brian Ross

Texas Heavy Industries Worry About EPA Crackdown

In this Sept. 18, 2009 photo, smoke rises from a pipe at the ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas.... In this Sept.

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Related Topix: Texas Government, Texas, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Oil & Gas, Baytown, TX, Science, Ecology

New York Times

Kosmos Confirms Sale of Oil Stake

Kosmos Energy, an oil explorer backed by private equity firms, confirmed on Monday that it had agreed to sell assets in Ghana to the Exxon Mobil Corporation .

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Business News

Tue Oct 13, 2009

XtraMSN Real Estate

Iraq cuts foreign deals for major boost to oil output

Foreign energy firms have agreed to Iraq's conditions for investment in two major oilfields in the south of the country, Baghdad announced on Tuesday as it prepares to dramatically ramp up oil output.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Energy, Oil & Gas

ETF Investor

What Exxon Mobil's Ghana Deal Means for Crude Oil ETFs

Energy giant Exxon Mobil has agreed to buy a minority stake in an oil field off the coast of Ghana for $4 billion, the company's first major purchase in nearly ten years.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Sun Oct 11, 2009

MarketWatch

Cnooc challenging Exxon over Ghana oil: WSJ

Chinese energy giant Cnooc Ltd. is challenging U.S. rival Exxon Mobil Corp. over a stake in a major offshore oil discovery in West Africa, according to a Wall Street Journal report Sunday.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Cnooc, Financial Services, Investment Services

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Lawyer's 5m battle over ruined career

A former president of the Law Society and his City law firm are being sued for up to A 5m over allegations that they helped a global oil company wreck a barrister's career.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

KRISTV.COM Corpus Christi

Exxon Mobil appeals judgment in leak case

Exxon Mobil Corp. said Friday that it has appealed a $150 million judgment awarded to dozens of families whose wells were contaminated during a 2006 gasoline spill.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Irving, TX

Fri Oct 09, 2009

ABC News - Brian Ross

ExxonMobil Appeals Judgment in Md. Leak Case

ExxonMobil Corp. said Friday that it has appealed a $150 million judgment awarded to dozens of families whose wells were contaminated during a 2006 gasoline spill.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Irving, TX

Dallas Business Journal

Report: Exxon to pay $4B for oil field

A new report from the United Kingdom's Financial Times said Tuesday North Texas-based energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Thu Oct 08, 2009

Scoop

Exxon Mobil gets an extra year to drill

Oil industry "super-major" Exxon Mobil has sought and been granted an extension to its drilling licence for oil and gas exploration in the Great South Basin.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Wed Oct 07, 2009

International Herald Tribune

Exxon Said to Pay $4 Billion For Oil Field

The energy giant Exxon Mobil has agreed to pay about $4 billion for a minority stake in a oil field off the coast of Ghana, a region that has emerged as a major new petroleum province, a person with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday, The New York Times's Jad Mouawad and Zachery Kouwe report.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Anadarko Petroleum

Bloomberg

Exxon Mobil Regains Ranking as Most Valuable Company as PetroChina Falls

Exxon Mobil Corp. regained its ranking as the worlda s most valuable company, overtaking PetroChina Co.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Irving, TX, US News

Tue Oct 06, 2009

Bloomberg

Exxon Said to Be Talking With Kosmos to Buy Ghana Oil Stake for $4 Billion

Kosmos Energy LLC, a U.S. oil explorer backed by Blackstone Group LP and Warburg Pincus LLC, is in talks to sell its stake in a field off the coast of Ghana to Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Startups, Warburg Pincus, Financial Services, Investment Services, Irving, TX, 9, US News

Bloomberg Business News

U.S. Stocks Extend Global Rally After Australia Rate Increase; Gold Rises

U.S. stocks rose, extending a global rally, as investors speculated third-quarter earnings will top estimates and Australiaa s central bank raised interest rates on signs of economic strength.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Mining, Alcoa, Newmont Mining Corporation Holding Company, Energy, Oil & Gas, Telecom, Corning, Electronics, Banking, Financial Services, Ubs Ag

York Weekly

Sanborn Regional High School receives grant

Sanborn Regional High school has received a $750 grant from the ExxonMobil Educational Alliance program to support the school's mathematics program.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Kingston, NH

Mon Oct 05, 2009

MediLexicon

ExxonMobil & American Idol Elliott Yamin Support Malaria Prevention At Angola Orphanage And School

Exxon Mobil Corporation and American Idol finalist Elliott Yamin have teamed up to support new malaria prevention projects at the Saint Isabel Orphanage and School in Luanda, Angola.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Malaria, Health, Energy, Oil & Gas, World News, Angola, Africa,

Sun Oct 04, 2009

BNET

Exxon CEO Tillerson's Argument For a Carbon Tax

By Kirsten Korosec Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson renewed his push for a straight tax on greenhouse gas emissions in a speech last night , touting the benefits of a plan that would give companies a predictable cost andA keep the government fromA picking energy winnersA and losers.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Sat Oct 03, 2009

Houston Chronicle

City plans to sell two prime Midtown blocks

The city of Houston is planning to sell two prime blocks in Midtown as part of a consolidation move.

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Related Topix: Houston, TX, Houston Metro, Main Street and Main, Restaurant Management, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Ike, Energy, Oil & Gas

Manila Bulletin

Group ready to start Sulu Sea drilling

The Department of Energy announced the start of exploration for hydrocarbons in the South Sulu Sea under DoE's Service Contract 56 with the arrival Friday of the drill rig, West Aquarius.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas

Fri Oct 02, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Exxon says it didn't poison NYC's water with additive

Exxon Mobil Corp. didn't poison New York City's water wells with a gasoline additive meant to improve air quality, a lawyer for the company told jurors.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Amerada Hess, New York

Thu Oct 01, 2009

Bloomberg

Stocks in U.S. Fall as Technology Slump Overcomes Rebound in Home Prices

U.S. stocks declined as technology shares retreated from a one-year high and energy producers dropped as a stronger dollar dragged down oil, overshadowing the biggest gain in home prices in four years.

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Related Topix: Housing, Financial Markets, Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Energy, Oil & Gas, Construction, KB Home, 9

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