Exxon Mobil Corporation

The climate change guilt trip

2013-06-02 00:00:00

A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he'd had playing with his two young daughters during the mellow evenings. It had been...

Investors snap up $17 billion in Apple bonds

2013-05-01 00:00:00

First came the frenzy for iPhones and iPads. Now there's a scramble for iBonds. Apple Inc. sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday, a gargantuan deal that ranked as the largest in global corporate history. And even though the securities are paying...

Arkansas oil spill is only a fraction of annual pipeline losses

2013-04-12 06:30:00

The images from Mayflower, Ark., after a March 29 oil spill were particularly repulsive: A river of black goo running through yards and down the street of a subdivision, and hundreds of workers arriving to clean up an industrial mess in a peaceful burg....

Chavez death leaves behind daunting challenges at home, abroad

2013-03-05 15:09:00

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loomed so large over his country and Latin America for the last two decades that his death on Tuesday following a long battle with cancer confronts the region with potentially destabilizing political swings and economic...

Apple's market cap falls below $400 billion

2013-03-04 11:45:00

Apple's stock price continued its fall Monday, dragging the company's market value below $400 billion for the first time since January 2012.� In midday trading, Apple's stock was down $7.52, or 1.75%, to $422.95. That put its market capitalization at...

As gas prices hit record high, police probe 1,000-gallon theft

2012-10-06 14:52:44

California sees record gas prices as police deal with fuel bandits

2012-10-07 04:42:22

Gas prices in California hit new record high at $4.67 a gallon

2012-10-08 07:59:00

Gas prices in California are at a record high for the third day in a row, up slightly more than a cent overnight at $4.668 for a gallon of regular just as motorists start their work week. The cost of fueling up has soared in recent days, as refinery...

Like Feinstein, Boxer urges federal inqury into high gas prices

2012-10-08 16:43:00

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is following in her colleague�Dianne Feinstein’s steps by calling for a federal investigation into record gas prices in California. Boxer is urging the Department of Justice’s Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working...

Stock buybacks fall for second consecutive quarter

2012-06-27 11:17:00

American companies are getting a bit hesitant about buying back their own stock. Share repurchases by large companies fell in the first three months of this year, the second consecutive quarter of declining buybacks, according to Standard & Poor’...

Bombings rip through Iraq, reportedly killing at least 25

2012-12-17 12:57:00

Coliseum officials charged taxpayers thousands for fill-ups

2011-09-26 00:00:00

As finance director for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Ronald Lederkramer didn't need to do much driving to keep an eye on the stadium's books. But he has charged taxpayers about $7,600 for gasoline since 2008, even for fill-ups near Las Vegas and in...

Oil companies have made up the most powerful industry on Earth for the last 50 years.

2013-05-31 20:27:27

This undated photo released by police in Norton Shores, Mich., shows Jessica Heeringa, 25, who apparently was abducted Friday, April 26, 2013, from the Exxon Mobil gas station where she worked as a clerk in Norton Shores.

2013-04-28 00:00:00

Exxon Mobil operates this 238,600 barrel-per-day refinery in Joliet. (Tribune file)

2013-02-21 03:54:00