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By Isabel Ordonez
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) posted a 17% rise in first- quarter net income, driven by surging crude oil prices.
But the U.S. oil giant also reported a sharp decline in production and week refining profits.
Exxon Mobil’s results worsen Wall Street expectations. Its shares closed Thursday down 3.6% to $89.70 and in recent late trading are at $89.80. This movement came on a day when petroleum equities traded lower due mainly to a sharp drop of oil prices that traded under $111.
The world’s largest company on a market capitalization basis reported net income of $10.89 billion, or $2.03 a share, up from $9.28 billion, or $1.62 a share, a year earlier. The latest results mark the best first quarter ever for the energy giant. However, the mean estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was for earnings of $2.14 a share.
Revenue climbed to $116.85 billion from $87.22 billion. (more…)
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You’ve sold all your junk. Emptied your attic. Sold your Grandmas antiques. What’s left to sell? How can you start making a more regular and reliable part-time income?OK, selling unused stuff that has been hanging around your house is a great way to start your eBay trading.
Like most eBay traders you then probably check out places such as car boot sales, charity shops, thrift shops, garage sales etc. Again these are great places to pick up one off items and make a good profit on eBay.
The reason that you make a good profit is because the item that you are selling is fairly unique and there will be little if any competition in the eBay market place.
One of the down sides of these ’second-hand’ items is that they are all different, it’s difficult for you to specialize in one item, and they all require different types of eBay descriptions. They also require different sized and types of packaging. In fact, dealing in these types of items can turn into a full time job, very soon the fun aspect goes out the window. (more…)
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Before the advent of pencil and paper and writing, ancient peoples depended solely upon storytelling to pass along the history of their families and tribes from one generation to the next. Of course, it was an imperfect method, as we humans tend to skew a story from our own perspective and add details and nuances that weren’t present in the original story. However imperfect or exaggerated or simply untrue the stories might be, we all live in countries where stories shape our history. Here in the U.S., we were all regaled as children with stories of Paul Revere’s ride through Boston alerting the residents of the coming of the British, or if you were a Texas kid, of the defeat of Santa Ana in San Jacinto after the tragic loss of life to the Mexican army at the Alamo.
I’ve always reveled in stories. One of my favorite pastimes as a child was to hang out with my mom and aunts for the “adult conversations” that weren’t really suitable for children’s ears. However, I refused to leave no matter how strongly I was encouraged to go and play outside. I just wanted to hear the stories of the “good ole” days” (i.e. back in the olden days, as I gleefully referred to those times) when they were growing up or when things were different. Hearing stories about them in different contexts than how I knew them shaped both my personal history and my family history and connected me to them in ways that I still value to this day. Of course, I l also overheard much family gossip, but that, then is another story. (more…)
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Affiliate marketing works best when you have a website focusing on a specific niche. More often than not, people start websites based on a need for information, for a passion, or a combination of both. (more…)
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