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No decision on Exxon Valdez interest payments

AP — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:35:27 +0000

The Supreme Court has declined to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay interest to victims of the nation’s worst oil spill that would roughly double the $507 million judgment the high court approved in...

Top corporate quarterly earnings of all time

AP — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:46:12 +0000

Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday it earned $11.68 billion in the second quarter.

Exxon sells US gas stations to distributors

AP — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:17:34 +0000

Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday it’s getting out of the retail gasoline business, following other major oil companies who’ve been selling their low-margin stations to gasoline distributors.Motorists, however, will continue to see Exxon’s Tiger-themed...

Exxon Mobil's CEO, Chairman Tillerson to face fire

AP — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:01:06 +0000

Exxon Mobil Corp. chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson will have a fight on his hands Wednesday to keep the two top jobs at the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company, as some members of the Rockefeller family and other shareholders push to...

Exxon seeks $800M from Alaska over gas, oil leases

AP — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:29:14 +0000

Exxon Mobil Corp. asked Monday that Alaska pay $800 million in damages, claiming the state breached a deal when it revoked gas and oil leases on a North Slope oil field.The Irving, Texas-based company also filed a separate request for...

Exxon Mobil 1Q profit up 17 pct, Marathon edges up 2 percent

AP — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:32:07 +0000

Don’t expect motorists to sympathize, but Exxon Mobil Corp. says gasoline prices didn’t do it any favors in the first quarter.Still, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday it earned $10.9 billion to start...

Stocks up as dollar rises on optimism about US economy

AP — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:38:51 +0000

Wall Street advanced Thursday as investors looked past a disappointing profit report from Exxon Mobil Corp. and focused on the rising dollar, which strengthened on better-than expected economic data and the Federal Reserve’s apparent resolve...

Stocks up slightly after ExxonMobil report, spending data

AP — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:51:45 +0000

Wall Street traded modestly higher in early trading Thursday after Exxon Mobil Corp. missed profit projections, and the government said consumer spending rose last month primarily due to surging costs.Exxon Mobil said profit rose 17 percent to...

Stocks open flat after ExxonMobil report, spending data

AP — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:37:31 +0000

Wall Street is little changed in the early going after Exxon Mobil Corp. missed profit projections despite record oil prices.Investors are also not happy with a Commerce Department report that consumer spending rose in March. Most of those gains...

Exxon Mobil 1Q profit up 17 pct, Wall Street expected more

AP — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:25:56 +0000

Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday record crude prices helped its net income grow 17 percent in the first quarter, but the results came in below Wall Street forecasts.Its shares fell 2.6 percent...