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Standard Oil is the common name for a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller.
A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for investors to refer to, purchase, and research securities.
The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on the American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average). The index includes about 80 percent of the American market by capitalization.
This is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P SmallCap 600 stock market index. The index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 600 small-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the S&P 600, the index contains 602 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 2 of its ...
After the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s, energy stocks rallied as gas and oil prices skyrocketed. Energy's weight in the S&P 500 went from 7% in 1972 to 28% at the tail end of 1980.
The oil giant produced an average of 3.2 million barrels per day of liquids (oil and natural gas liquids) during the third quarter. That was the company's highest- liquids output in over 40 years.
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The Standard and Poor's 100, or simply the S&P 100, is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 and the S&P 1500 , and holds stocks that tend to be the largest and most established companies in the S&P 500. [ 1 ]