Not only is ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), the world’s largest oil and natural gas entity, trading at its 52-week low, it is substantially below what legendary investor Warren Buffett paid for his shares. ExxonMobil is down for the last week, month, quarter, six months, and year of market action (chart below). Over the last six months […]

A recent article on this site detailed the hoax about how a schoolboy in New York City fooled the media into believing he had made $72 million trading securities during recess. Of little surprise, it turned out to be a hoax. The aftermath is replete with articles about how to spot a stock hoax.  That […]

BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), the world’s largest natural resources company, is restructuring its operations around the world.  This is resulting in change in the business model of the firm as its sells off assets and realigns its strcture. This is naturally causing short term pain in the stock price of BHP Billiton. As a result, […]

Like many other major oil stocks, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is down for the last week, month, quarter and six months of market action. For the last 52 weeks, ConocoPhillips has dropped, too (chart below). Projections are that ConocoPhillips and other oil and natural gas stocks will continue to fall.  The exchange traded fund for oil, […]

BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is the world’s largest natural resources company with operations spanning the globe from its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. It is very profitable, more than three times the average of around ten percent for a member of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (NYSE: SPY). But that still has not prevented BHP […]

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), the drug and consumer product maker, is a classic blue chip that all should all have in their portfolio, That is shown in that more than two-thirds of the stock is owned by institutional investors such as mutual funds, pensions groups, and others. It is always a bullish when institutional […]

It has been a bear quarter for ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), a major oil company. Energy prices have been weak due to lesser demand and greater supply.  United States Oil (NYSE: USO), the exchange traded fund for oil, is down more than 18 percent for the last quarter of market action.  Over that same period, ConocoPhillips […]

Big Oil stocks such as BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), and others have not fared well in recent market action. ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil and natural gas company, is down for the last quarter and six months of market action.  Chevron has fallen for the last month, quarter, and […]

For long term investors, the positive outlook recently issued by BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is very bullish news. BHP BIlliton is the world’s largest natural resources company. In that capacity, it has operations spanning the globe.  The better China does, the better it is for BHP BIlliton.  China gobbles up many of the industrial metals […]

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) did not get to be the world’s biggest retailer by missing opportunities. It now sees one in health care; and is moving in a big way. That is the only way that a company with a market capitalization of around $250 billion moves.  As health care is the largest component of the […]