Stocks tumbled Friday, at the end of a down week on Wall Street, as spiking oil prices and another weak housing market report gave investors a reason to retreat ahead of a three-day holiday weekend.
A 1967 visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by a recruiter from Dow Chemical Co., which made napalm, sparked a bloody clash between police and protesting students and galvanized anti-war sentiment on campus.
Halliburton, the world's second-largest oil services company, said Monday that second-quarter profit from continuing operations rose 19 percent, topping Wall Street views, helped by new international contracts.
U.S. stocks gained at Monday's open on some deal announcements and solid earnings reports.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR has agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations the firm overcharged the U.S. Army for logistical support of military operations in the Balkans in 1999 and 2000.
The winners and losers from the mid-term elections weren't limited to the candidates on the ballots.
Five companies, including a subsidiary of military contract giant Halliburton, billed the U.S. government a total of $62.1 million for administrative operations, which is more than twice the amount those companies spent directly on the projects in Iraq that they had been contracted for, according to a report released Monday by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
Was that it? The stock market just closed out the best third quarter in 9 years, defying expectations for equities to stall or more likely, slide.
Halliburton ranks no. 306 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $21.0 billion in revenues, up 2.6% from the previous year. The Houston, Texas-based company was ranked no. 286 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $2.4 billion.
The headlines all screamed of a musical detente between Apple and Sony. But the headlines got it wrong. Sony is in fact adding support for AAC, a digital-music file format also used by Apple. But Sony isn't adopting FairPlay, the digital rights management system Apple uses in its iTunes Music Store to prevent piracy. Still, Sony's move will make it easier for iTunes users to move at least part of their music libraries onto Sony music players. Any songs they have ripped from CDs onto their hard drives in the unprotected AAC format -- the default setting in iTunes software -- will now play without requiring cumbersome recoding.
Stocks tumbled Friday, at the end of a down week on Wall Street, as spiking oil prices and another weak housing market report gave investors a reason to retreat ahead of a three-day holiday weekend.
A 1967 visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by a recruiter from Dow Chemical Co., which made napalm, sparked a bloody clash between police and protesting students and galvanized anti-war sentiment on campus.
Halliburton, the world's second-largest oil services company, said Monday that second-quarter profit from continuing operations rose 19 percent, topping Wall Street views, helped by new international contracts.
U.S. stocks gained at Monday's open on some deal announcements and solid earnings reports.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR has agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations the firm overcharged the U.S. Army for logistical support of military operations in the Balkans in 1999 and 2000.
The winners and losers from the mid-term elections weren't limited to the candidates on the ballots.
Five companies, including a subsidiary of military contract giant Halliburton, billed the U.S. government a total of $62.1 million for administrative operations, which is more than twice the amount those companies spent directly on the projects in Iraq that they had been contracted for, according to a report released Monday by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
Was that it? The stock market just closed out the best third quarter in 9 years, defying expectations for equities to stall or more likely, slide.
Halliburton ranks no. 306 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $21.0 billion in revenues, up 2.6% from the previous year. The Houston, Texas-based company was ranked no. 286 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $2.4 billion.
The headlines all screamed of a musical detente between Apple and Sony. But the headlines got it wrong. Sony is in fact adding support for AAC, a digital-music file format also used by Apple. But Sony isn't adopting FairPlay, the digital rights management system Apple uses in its iTunes Music Store to prevent piracy. Still, Sony's move will make it easier for iTunes users to move at least part of their music libraries onto Sony music players. Any songs they have ripped from CDs onto their hard drives in the unprotected AAC format -- the default setting in iTunes software -- will now play without requiring cumbersome recoding.
Halliburton ranks no. 103 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $20,994 million in revenues, up 2.6% from the previous year. The Houston-based company was ranked no. 101 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $2,358 million.
The administration's competence problem is already at the yadda, yadda, yadda stage. They were supposed to protect us from terrorist attack, they said Iraq would be a cakewalk, that we only needed 50,000 troops. They failed to plan for the occupation or Hurricane Katrina or the prescription drug plan. Yadda.
The Dow industrials are near 4-1/2 year highs -- both good and bad news for those betting that the long-lagging big-cap stocks are due for a comeback.
Halliburton Co. on Friday announced plans to spin off a minority portion KBR, its engineering and construction group, and perhaps sell parts of it.
Americans may not be happy about spending $35 for a tank of gasoline, but they're coping.
To understand how advances in computing technology are affecting the petroleum industry, look no further than the Pod. Designed by Landmark Graphics, a unit of Halliburton that specializes in developing software for oil companies, the Pod is an Imax-style viewing room powered by a supercomputer.
Johnson & Johnson has the overall best reputation and Enron has the worst, according to this year's Corporate Reputation survey.
It's no secret that compared to stocks like Apple and Google, which boast phenomenal growth as well as cultural cachet, some of the biggest names in tech look a little tired.
A whistleblower's claims that reconstruction in Iraq has been rife with waste, fraud and abuse -- particularly in regard to a division of Halliburton -- will be turned over to the Justice Department, a U.S. senator said Friday.
It is a sad fact that profits and war go together. It can be a little shocking how much.
Americans may not be happy about spending $40 for a tank of gasoline, but they're coping. Shoppers are making fewer trips to the mall. Bicycle sales are booming. Even carpooling is back in vogue--e...
Americans may not be happy about spending $40 for a tank of gasoline, but they're coping.
The stock market chalked up solid gains for the third quarter but rising energy prices made it a rocky ride.
With President Bush promising massive aid to rebuild the devastated Gulf Coast, investors are eyeing what companies stand to benefit from the rebuilding process.
Bulls returning from the long holiday weekend should best be prepared to hit the ground running.
HOUSTON-BASED HALLIBURTON HAS spent much of the new millennium laboring to resolve a string of giant, self-inflicted headaches (see "The Truth About Halliburton," on fortune.com). But the company w...
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In an age of ugly symbols, a handful of companies have come to serve as shorthand for what's wrong with corporate America. In 2004, Halliburton moved to the top of the roster.
The daughter of an American truck driver killed in Iraq last year has sued Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR, claiming that her father, Tony Johnson, was not properly shielded from harm in his work.
A former employee of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root has been indicted on fraud charges in connection with a military contract in Kuwait, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
A Halliburton Co. unit is facing new questions from Pentagon auditors about bills for supplying fuel to the U.S. military in Iraq as part of a no-bid contract to rebuild the country's oil infrastructure, according to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday.
The first seven weeks of 2005 are looking awfully similar to 2004 for investors -- oil stocks are on fire and just about everything else has struggled.
The first six weeks of 2005 are looking awfully similar to 2004 for investors -- oil stocks are on fire and just about everything else has struggled.
"HALLIBURTON!" CHIRPED THE employee who answered the telephone in Tehran. Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, part of the "axis of evil"? Yes, the company was a tenant, confirmed t...
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
OK, fine. We're not really in Hawaii today. We're stuck in New York, whose 15 minutes of swing-state fame ended weeks ago. But Dick Cheney, Al Gore and Alex Kerry get to go there this weekend, and we really, really think we should, too.
The FBI has made a formal request to interview the Army Corps of Engineers chief contracting officer who has alleged her agency unfairly awarded no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars to a Halliburton subsidiary for work in Iraq, law enforcement sources said Thursday.
Law enforcement sources told CNN Thursday that the FBI has made a formal request to interview Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers chief contracting officer who went public last weekend with allegations her agency unfairly awarded Kellogg, Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq.
Still looking for a really terrifying Halloween costume idea? Here's a thought. Just wear a barrel with a big number $55 on it.
The H-bomb has become a major weapon in the Democratic arsenal. The "H" standing for "Halliburton."
Eleven protesters from the AIDS activist group ACT UP were arrested Wednesday on the floor of Madison Square Garden after interrupting a Republican convention speech by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, the Secret Service told CNN.
Oil's persistent march to record highs and trouble for the Google IPO could dampen enthusiasm for U.S. stocks when markets open Wednesday.
John Kerry talks to some 7,000 minority journalists this morning in the capital before meeting John Edwards in St. Louis. President Bush won't appear in the same ZIP code as Kerry today, which is good news for local banks (more on this below). Bush campaigns in Michigan and Ohio. Dick Cheney is down -- but not out.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign Wednesday called on the White House to release details of Vice President Dick Cheney's testimony in federal regulators' probe of the accounting practices of the company he once headed.
Once again, strong earnings results paired with disappointing qualifying language could prevent a rally on Wall Street and lead investors to pull money out of stocks not meeting analysts' high expectations.
A Democratic senator Tuesday called for a congressional investigation into whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in awarding a no-bid contract in Iraq to his old company, the oil-services giant Halliburton.
Vice President Dick Cheney was a guest on NBC's Meet the Press last September when host Tim Russert brought up Halliburton.
Vice President Dick Cheney's office denied Sunday that he was involved in a coordinated effort to secure a multibillion dollar Iraq oil deal for Halliburton, his former employer.
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Halliburton plans to bill the U.S. military $141 million for meals served to U.S. forces in Iraq, even though the charges had previously been questioned by Pentagon auditors, according to a published report.
Oil services firm Halliburton reported improved operating income that edged past Wall Street forecasts, although special charges led it to report a net loss for the period.
U.S. stocks are set to open lower Wednesday after the end of a bid for media conglomerate Walt Disney Co. and a further slide in demand for mortgage refinancing.
The promise of a big paycheck drew two Texas dads to Iraq and one says his son's voice helped him escape the violence and get back home alive.
The unidentified remains of four bodies have been found in Iraq near Baghdad, two U.S. State Department officials said Tuesday.
A U.S. Army Apache helicopter was brought down by unidentified ground fire west of Baghdad on Sunday, military sources said, despite a cease-fire that was in effect in the region.
The Pentagon plans to withhold about $300 million in money owed to Halliburton under its contract to provide meals to U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The top U.S. military officer in Iraq has criticized Halliburton Co. (HAL) as stumbling in one of its most pressing assignments: the construction of new bases for U.S. troops in Iraq, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported.
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It took three cruise missiles and a direct hit by a 2,000-pound bomb to obliterate Baghdad's al Mamoun telephone exchange. Putting it back together has proved to be a bit more complicated. Bechtel ...
The Pentagon's investigation into allegations a Halliburton subsidiary may have overcharged for gasoline delivered to Iraq last year is now a criminal probe, the Pentagon said Monday.
The Pentagon's investigation into allegations a Halliburton subsidiary may have overcharged for gasoline delivered to Iraq last year is now a criminal probe, the Pentagon said Monday.
Kuwait's parliament agreed Wednesday to investigate whether the government misused public funds when it signed a contract with Halliburton Corp. to supply fuel to U.S. troops in Iraq.
Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) will refund the U.S. government $27.4 million for potential over-billings at five dining halls in Iraq and Kuwait, according to a Pentagon statement.
Over the past few months Halliburton has been called a war profiteer, a beneficiary of crony capitalism, and a no-good Beltway Bandit. Its contracts are being eyeballed by congressional Democrats w...
HALLIBURTON An Army official cleared the company of charges that a subsidiary inflated the price of delivering gasoline to Iraq. Good thing--can you imagine the backlash in the Middle East if they ...
Halliburton said Friday it has issued a check in the amount of $6.3 million to its customer, the Army Materiel Command, to cover potential overbilling charges by a subcontractor until its investigation of the situation is complete.
Halliburton Co. (HAL) has told the Pentagon that two employees took kickbacks valued at up to $6 million in return for awarding a Kuwaiti-based company with lucrative work supplying U.S. troops in Iraq, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Offering a spirited defense of the company he once headed, Vice President Dick Cheney said Halliburton Co. is being maligned for its work in Iraq by political opponents of the Bush administration who are "feeling desperate."
The Pentagon is asking for additional bids to provide kerosene, gasoline and liquefied natural gas for Iraqi civilians in northern and southern parts of the country.
The Pentagon has asked its criminal unit to investigate allegations that Halliburton Co., the oil field services company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, overcharged the U.S. government for fuel delivered to Iraq, three U.S. lawmakers said Friday.
Investors daring enough to buy Halliburton (HAL, $21) a year ago hit a gusher. Despite an ongoing SEC inquiry into certain accounting practices during the tenure of its previous CEO (Vice President...
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