Tag: Conoco Phillips (COP)
Vanished: $50 Billion
Gone. $50 billion has vanished. It’s been wiped off the books of oil companies because crude oil prices have taken a 29% plunge over the past five months. And you guessed it. That’s $50 billion less for oil companies to tap into to pay dividends. What does this mean? Should you run for cover and […]
Oil: Where’s It Going Next?
What a year for oil… Maybe you remember, crude kicked off 2011 with a bang. Social unrest in North Africa sent ‘Texas tea’ surging to $113 a barrel seemingly overnight. At the time, violent anti-government protests overcame dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Fears of unrest spreading to Middle Eastern oil giant Saudi Arabia had […]
