Topic: Occidental Petroleum Corporation
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S&P rises above 1400 for first time since May
Stocks post another gain as S&P and Nasdaq reach milestones. Dow is now less than 1,000 points from all-time high.
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Stocks fall for a fourth day as tech profits slump
Stocks dropped over one hundred points for the fourth straight day Tuesday, following a profit slump at technology companies and steep decline in oil prices. The bad news even outweighed hopeful developments in Europe.
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Gold mine reopens in California desert
Gold mining jobs are coming to Mojave, Calif. Run-up in gold, silver prices causes Golden Queen Mining to restart operation.
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Week ahead: new transparency at the Fed and a gusher of earnings
The Fed will hold its first-ever quarterly briefing, and new data will likely reveal sluggish economic growth for the first quarter
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Stocks end mixed. Best first quarter since 1998.
Stocks closed out the quarter with the Dow gaining 742 points, its biggest first-quarter point gain in more than a decade and its biggest percentage gain since 1994.
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Eyeing BP oil spill, British question if North Sea oil firms also push bounds of safety
The BP oil spill has drawn attention to companies' safety records in the North Sea, where an oil rig explosion killed 167 men three decades ago. A coauthor of a report on that catastrophe says that practices have changed little since then.
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$16 billion environmental lawsuit tests Chevron
The case filed by Ecuadorean indigenous groups is one of the largest environmental suits against an oil firm and could set a precedent. Chevron dismisses it as a 'charade.'
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