http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Chevron_CorporationFind stories, videos, and photos about Chevron Corporation from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:34:04 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Chevron_Corporation14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Chevron Corporation from CNN.com.http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/02/magazines/fortune/investing/investor_daily.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/02/02/magazines/fortune/investing/investor_daily.fortune/index.htmWith big oil stocks like Chevron holding their value after last year's market meltdown and crude prices dropping more than $100 a barrel from the summer, both long-term investors and short sellers are sniffing out opportunity.Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:19:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/10/31/markets/oil/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/10/31/markets/oil/index.htmOil prices staged a late-session rally Friday as credit markets loosened, but the gain only slightly tempered a month in which crude fell by the largest monthly percentage since the Nymex contracts began trading.Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:54:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/04/29/markets/thebuzz/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/04/29/markets/thebuzz/index.htmOil producer BP reported a 63% increase in profits Tuesday to a whopping $7.6 billion. Royal Dutch Shell's first-quarter earnings increased 25% to a record $9.1 billion.Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:43:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/02/19/markets/markets_wrap/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/02/19/markets/markets_wrap/index.htmStocks ended lower Tuesday, erasing session gains, after oil prices settled at a record $100.01 a barrel and gold and other commodities spiked, raising worries about how inflation will impact an already weakened economy.Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:56:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/11/27/news/newsmakers/101644366.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/11/27/news/newsmakers/101644366.fortune/index.htmOil companies are blamed (unjustly) for high gas prices, loathed for profiting from them, and criticized for their environmental record. So it's no wonder that most industry CEOs have made themselves scarce. Chevron's David O'Reilly is the exception. He regularly talks to reporters and appears on television to answer questions about Chevron and the industry.Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:55:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/10/15/news/companies/chevron_refinery.moneymag/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/10/15/news/companies/chevron_refinery.moneymag/index.htmChevron Corp. said Monday it would add a major gasoline production unit to its oil refining facility in Pascagoula, Miss.Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:20:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/10/11/markets/oil_eia/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/10/11/markets/oil_eia/index.htmOil prices jumped almost $2 a barrel Thursday, and neared a new record high, following a surprise drop in U.S. crude inventories, a strike at Chevron's operations in Nigeria and a fire at BP's Alaska oil field.Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:24:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/news/companies/chevron_buybacks.ap/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/news/companies/chevron_buybacks.ap/index.htmEnriched by high oil prices, Chevron Corp. will spend up to $15 billion buying back its own stock - a commitment that pleased shareholders and rankled critics clamoring for bigger investments in projects that might help lower energy costs.Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:19:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/08/14/news/companies/chevron.reut/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/08/14/news/companies/chevron.reut/index.htmChevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said Tuesday it will split its global upstream operations into four operating companies along regional lines to better manage its growth.Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:10:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/07/27/news/companies/bc.chevron.results.reut/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/07/27/news/companies/bc.chevron.results.reut/index.htmChevron Corp posted a better-than-expected 24 percent rise in quarterly earnings Friday on higher profits from its refineries and a gain from the sale of its stake in power company Dynegy Inc.Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:05:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/06/05/news/companies/cvx.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/06/05/news/companies/cvx.fortune/index.htmChevron (CVX) ranks no. 4 on FORTUNE's list of America's largest corporations.Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:22:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/09/nigeria.abductions/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/09/nigeria.abductions/index.htmlFour Americans working off the coast of southern Nigeria were abducted by unknown kidnappers overnight, an oil company official said Wednesday.Wed, 09 May 2007 09:09:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/27/markets/markts_nyopen/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/27/markets/markts_nyopen/index.htmStocks fell at the open Friday after the government said the economy grew at the weakest pace in four yearsFri, 27 Apr 2007 13:03:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/markets/oil_eia/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/markets/oil_eia/index.htmOil prices steadied near $58 Wednesday after government said supplies of crude oil rose less than expected but the fall in gasoline stocks was less than thought.Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:08:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/news/companies/chevron/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/news/companies/chevron/index.htmChina's growing appetite for oil will be a challenge for U.S. consumers already facing rising gas prices, but an opportunity for Chevron, CEO David O'Reilly said Tuesday at an analyst conference in New York.Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:44:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/11/08/magazines/business2/chevron_innovators.biz2/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/11/08/magazines/business2/chevron_innovators.biz2/index.htmEvery oil company likes to claim it's really in the energy business. But at Chevron, chief technology officer Don Paul is seriously thinking about the day the petroleum wells run dry. The first way we'll cope, he says, is by extracting usable fuel out of tar sands, oil shale, and coal.Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:27:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/10/31/news/companies/chevron_royalties/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/10/31/news/companies/chevron_royalties/index.htmThe U.S. Interior Department abandoned claims that the oil giant Chevron underpaid the government for natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, which could pave the way for other energy firms from paying royalties to the government, according to a report published Tuesday.Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:04:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/16/8390301/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/16/8390301/index.htmAuto-racing legend Mario Andretti has met his share of corporate bigwigs over the years - though none, he says, quite as memorable as Patricia Woertz. The suits usually ask him the same questions a... Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:11:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/29/magazines/fortune/mpw.woertz.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/29/magazines/fortune/mpw.woertz.fortune/index.htmAuto-racing legend Mario Andretti has met his share of corporate bigwigs over the years - though none, he says, quite as memorable as Patricia Woertz. The suits usually ask him the same questions as the fans: What was your scariest wreck? What's it like to be one of only two drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500? And just how frustrating were all those losses at Le Mans?Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:30:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/29/news/economy/oil_prices/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/29/news/economy/oil_prices/index.htmThe energy crisis is over. You just might not be that happy with the ending.Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:34:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/18/news/companies/chevron_corporation.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/18/news/companies/chevron_corporation.fortune/index.htmChevron Corporation ranks no. 6 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $189.5 billion in revenues, up 28.1% from the previous year. The San Ramon, California-based company was ranked no. 11 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $14.1 billion, up 5.8% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:08:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/05/news/companies/chevron_gulf/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/05/news/companies/chevron_gulf/index.htmChevron and its partners have successfully extracted oil from a test well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, an achievement that could be the biggest breakthrough in domestic oil supplies since the opening of the Alaskan pipeline.Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:26:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/08/30/markets/oil_stocks/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/08/30/markets/oil_stocks/index.htmOil stocks are showing no signs of slowing down.Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:50:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/06/28/news/companies/pluggedin.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/06/28/news/companies/pluggedin.fortune/index.htmMost FORTUNE 500 companies employ brigades of lawyers to limit their legal liability. But how many worry about their "moral liability"? Probably not enough, if only because the lines are blurring between the two.Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:09:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/06/23/news/companies/chevron.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/06/23/news/companies/chevron.fortune/index.htmIt's either a great time (record profits, soaring share prices) or a terrible time (Capitol Hill's scrutiny, the public's ire) to be a Big Oil chief executive.Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:36:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/02/03/news/companies/pluggedin_fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/02/03/news/companies/pluggedin_fortune/index.htmJudging by the tens of billions (and yes that's billions with a B) the big oil companies are reporting in earnings for 2005, you'd think this is as good as it gets for companies like Chevron, Exxon, Shell and BP. Their shares are up, they've got a friend in the White House (even if he has been daring to talk about alternative energy), and they literally have more cash then they know what to do with. Heck, when was the last time it was cooler to be a member of Houston's Petroleum Club than be a tech type in Austin?Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:05:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/01/09/news/companies/supremecourt_texaco/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/01/09/news/companies/supremecourt_texaco/index.htmCorporations may soon have to think twice before forming a joint venture with a competitor.Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:12:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/14/britain.oil.blasts/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/14/britain.oil.blasts/index.htmlAs firefighters battled blazes at an oil depot north of London for a fourth day, the Hertfordshire Fire Brigade responded to criticism that it was not adequately prepared for Sunday's explosions and subsequent fires at the Bunceford Oil Depot.Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:05:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/09/05/8271386/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/09/05/8271386/index.htmDave O'Reilly isn't taking a vacation this summer. In fact, the Chevron CEO isn't even taking a day off to savor one of the biggest wins of his career. Less than 24 hours after beating China's CNOO...Mon, 05 Sep 2005 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/07/25/8266614/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/07/25/8266614/index.htmAS FIREWORKS were exploding in the skies across America on July 4, celebrating U.S. independence, a cadre of Chinese and American businesspeople were plotting their own revolution. In a virtual war...Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/05/09/news/fortune500/chevron/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/05/09/news/fortune500/chevron/index.htmChevronTexaco, the second largest U.S. oil company behind ExxonMobil, is dropping the Texaco part of its name and will go by just Chevron.Mon, 09 May 2005 15:07:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/04/04/commentary/mkcommentary/sivy/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/04/04/commentary/mkcommentary/sivy/index.htmChevronTexaco has reached an agreement for the $18 billion acquisition of Unocal, a large slow-growing independent that has exceptionally big reserves of oil and natural gas. Both the terms and the timing of the deal provide useful bellwethers for key price trends in the energy industry.Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:17:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/04/04/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/04/04/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htmRecord high crude oil prices weighed on stocks Monday morning, although a pair of upgrades for Dow stock AIG and some mega-merger news helped temper the impact.Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:27:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/10/25/markets/oilstocks/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/10/25/markets/oilstocks/index.htmStill looking for a really terrifying Halloween costume idea? Here's a thought. Just wear a barrel with a big number $55 on it.Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:34:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/10/11/news/fortune500/iraq_oil/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/10/11/news/fortune500/iraq_oil/index.htmA report on potential abuses in Iraq's former oil-for-food program named Exxon Mobil, ChevronTexaco and El Paso Corp. as companies associated with Saddam Hussein's efforts to flout sanctions, according to a report published Monday.Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:29:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/26/377175/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/26/377175/index.htmMutual fund managers that focus on "socially responsible investments" have long talked up the value of owning shares in environmentally conscious companies. But could investing green really be the ...Mon, 26 Jul 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/05/01/341280/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/05/01/341280/index.htmWhen Chevron and Texaco merged back in October 2001, it looked like an unstoppable combination. The union of $52 billion (market cap) Chevron, with its topnotch exploration and production assets, a...Thu, 01 May 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/02/327902/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/02/327902/index.htmBombardier A new plant saves old brand names Mon, 02 Sep 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/05/01/321630/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/05/01/321630/index.htmWe won't know for months whether the recession has officially ended, but it seems that folks all over Wall Street are high-fiving one another over the turnaround. Since September, Standard & Poor's...Wed, 01 May 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/01/01/315606/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/01/01/315606/index.htmWhen we sat down in November to begin our hunt for the best investments for 2002, we "lacked visibility" (to use Wall Street's current favorite phrase) about where the market was headed. Specifical...Tue, 01 Jan 2002 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/07/01/282721/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/07/01/282721/index.htmConfused by the stock market's wild swings and the vicious pounding that tech issues have been taking recently? Well, you're certainly not alone. Investors have changed their minds about the market...Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/22/269107/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/22/269107/index.htmPeople have worried that the world will run out of oil almost since Colonel Drake drilled the first well in Pennsylvania in 1859. As early as 1874, Pennsylvania's chief geologist predicted that ker...Mon, 22 Nov 1999 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/06/265322/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/06/265322/index.htmIt's known as "The Crisis" around Texaco's sprawling office headquarters in a leafy suburb north of New York City, which is certainly apropos. It was the embarrassing and expensive saga that forced...Mon, 06 Sep 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/07/19/263098/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/07/19/263098/index.htm"We are in a war for talent. And the only way you can meet your business imperatives is to have all people as part of your talent pool--here in the United States and around the world." That's Rich ...Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/11/242042/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/11/242042/index.htmWhen the trial of former senior Texaco executives Richard Lundwall and Robert Ulrich--both indicted for obstruction of justice and conspiracy--begins this spring, the two had better hope that juror...Mon, 11 May 1998 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/03/02/238527/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/03/02/238527/index.htmTo the loving eye of Phil Meek, president of Chevron Corp.'s Kazakhstan subsidiary, the Caspian Sea city of Atyrau looks a lot like West Texas. "It's flat, alkaline, not many trees," he says. Mon, 02 Mar 1998 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/01/13/220893/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/01/13/220893/index.htmAn old Rothschild (no relation) investment tip, "buy on the sound of cannons," can be profitably applied to Wall Street today, with lawyers taking over where the cannons left off. Now you can buy o...Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/12/09/219375/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/12/09/219375/index.htmIn all of the tumult over alleged racist remarks by Texaco executives, one curiously silent voice is that of Franklyn Jenifer, the one black member of Texaco's board of directors. How does he feel ...Mon, 09 Dec 1996 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/09/30/217399/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/09/30/217399/index.htmWhen it comes to executing management concepts like speed, mass customization, learning organizations, and supplier relations, some companies have the right stuff. Chrysler, for instance, has saved...Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80134/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80134/index.htmCompanies operating in dangerous regions need to cope with the security void left by the withdrawal of the Soviet and American empires. To stopper up the safety gap in far-flung locales from Kazakh...Mon, 26 Dec 1994 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/05/79686/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/05/79686/index.htmI'm doing a lousy job, confesses the boss. "I stand up there before an audience, and I sound just like a big damn oil mogul. I sound like the tobacco companies ten years ago. I haven't figured out ...Mon, 05 Sep 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/10/01/88335/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/10/01/88335/index.htmNorman Weinger and Michael Metz of Oppenheimer & Co. in New York City regularly screen their brokerage firm's recommended list for the stocks that rate best by value-oriented measures. Such stocks ...Fri, 01 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/04/20/76336/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/04/20/76336/index.htmOur bit for hands across the sea: The top ten industrial companies in this year's FORTUNE 500 are so gargantuan that News/Trends is assigning each a sister country, one whose gross national product...Mon, 20 Apr 1992 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1992/04/01/87219/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1992/04/01/87219/index.htm-- Squeeze more yield from your CDs by laddering. Stash equal parts of your money in a three-month, six-month, nine-month and one-year CD. As each comes due, replace it with a one-year CD. That way...Wed, 01 Apr 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/09/23/75512/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/09/23/75512/index.htmBORIS YELTSIN never actually said the words across the top of this page, at least not within earshot of this writer. But he might as well have. Everything the Russian President and his new partner,...Mon, 23 Sep 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74922/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74922/index.htmBIG OIL, big profits -- obscene profits, even. That's been the industry's image, but look at what really happened over the past decade: In 1980, after two huge run-ups in oil prices, the FORTUNE 50...Mon, 22 Apr 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74212/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74212/index.htmWHAT SORT OF U.S. investment do the Soviets want most? When Mikhail Gorbachev greeted 14 American CEOs led by Commerce Secretary Bob Mosbacher in a chandeliered Kremlin meeting room last month, he ...Mon, 22 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74226/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74226/index.htmWith crude prices rising so fast, oil and gas stocks are going up too. But selecting the best ones is as tricky as predicting the moves of Saddam Hussein. One safe way to cash in on oil now and bui...Mon, 22 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/02/26/73135/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/02/26/73135/index.htmWhen it came down to it, the environment took second place to jobs. Or so it did in the 1990 contract talks between Amoco and the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers union, whose 40,000 members inclu...Mon, 26 Feb 1990 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/09/01/85341/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/09/01/85341/index.htm-- More shareholders will get early stocking stuffers this year -- special dividends, such as the $4 a share paid in July by Texaco. Reason: record profit growth. In the first half of 1989, 219 spe...Fri, 01 Sep 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/09/01/85336/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/09/01/85336/index.htmLong one of the least profitable international oil companies, Chevron is deep into a self-improvement campaign that could help the company -- and its stock -- catch up with competitors. ''The probl...Fri, 01 Sep 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/31/72293/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/31/72293/index.htmLIKE AMERICAN and Soviet satellites docking in space, a consortium of five giant U.S. companies has joined up with a unique organization drawn from a cross section of the Kremlin's economic bureauc...Mon, 31 Jul 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/31/72275/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/31/72275/index.htmA list of the world's 100 biggest industrial companies is a picture of the global economy -- and as this year's compilation shows, the picture is changing. The titans of 20th-century industry, moto...Mon, 31 Jul 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72077/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72077/index.htmIn pay as in all things, risk and reward should go together. But sometimes they don't. Consider: -- We all know about Pennzoil's $3 billion victory over Texaco. Pennzoil's board showed its gratitud...Mon, 05 Jun 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/16/71523/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/16/71523/index.htmJAMES W. KINNEAR was still vying for the top job at Texaco when, some years back, a reporter asked him whether he disagreed with any of the company's policies. He had a smorgasbord of failed or que...Mon, 16 Jan 1989 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71493/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71493/index.htmA swirl of reports that raider Carl Icahn is readying a $60-a-share takeover bid pushed Texaco's stock price up in heavy trading. Texaco won't talk about it, nor will Icahn, who owns almost 15% of ...Mon, 02 Jan 1989 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71068/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71068/index.htmThe selection of Kenneth T. Derr, 52, to take over Chevron in January when Chairman George M. Keller retires should come as no surprise: He was one of eight executives included in the cover story '...Mon, 26 Sep 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/12/70990/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/12/70990/index.htm''What you are seeing now is the development of enormous power without many effective limits.'' -- David Boies, lead attorney for Texaco, talking about pension funds. Mon, 12 Sep 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/01/70851/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/01/70851/index.htmIf you're the sort of investor who likes simple relationships, you probably don't flirt much with oil stocks. Maybe your heart was broken in the early 1980s, and you decided never to become involve...Mon, 01 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70814/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70814/index.htmCarl Icahn's defeat in his arduous proxy battle with Texaco marks a new turn in corporate governance. In return for supporting the company's management, several of its biggest stockholders demanded...Mon, 18 Jul 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70582/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70582/index.htmJUNE S. KENTON, 52, co-director of Rigby & Peller, corsetiere by appointment to the Queen of England: ''We're the only one with the royal warrant in corsetry. Quite honestly, it is a great honor be...Mon, 23 May 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/04/11/84441/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/04/11/84441/index.htmBack in 1959, Roger Gustafson, now 61, began putting 7.5% of his income -- the maximum permitted by his employer, Chevron Corp. -- into the company's pension and stock purchase plans. By 1984, when...Mon, 11 Apr 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/04/01/84383/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/04/01/84383/index.htm-- A table in February's Fund Watch said that the DBL Tax-Free Cash Fund does not offer fund switching. DBL does allow such switching among its tax-exempt portfolios. -- Our stock fund listings in ...Fri, 01 Apr 1988 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/03/28/70371/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/03/28/70371/index.htm-- BRUCE E. LAZIER, 39, financial analyst for Prescott Ball & Turben, after Texaco's settlement of $1.25 billion in Energy Department claims: ''Every time you turn over a rock there, another $1 bil...Mon, 28 Mar 1988 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/01/18/70120/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/01/18/70120/index.htmThe nightmare of litigation may be over, but the dawn is not bright for Texaco. While the third-largest U.S. oil company spent four years refusing Pennzoil's demand for more than $10 billion of dam...Mon, 18 Jan 1988 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/70009/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/70009/index.htm-- Officers and directors and large shareholders are buying up their companies' stock at the fastest rate in 13 years. Since Black Monday, 80 insiders have bought company stock in the open market f...Mon, 21 Dec 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69863/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69863/index.htmQuick: Who is the most famous CEO in America? This question suddenly got to seem burning the other afternoon, when your correspondent moved a mountain of papers on his desk and came upon a two-mont...Mon, 23 Nov 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69391/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69391/index.htmTwo tokens for Texaco: The Securities and Exchange Commission has indicated it will side with Texaco on a key point in its $11-billion legal battle with Pennzoil. The SEC says Pennzoil broke a fede...Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69372/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69372/index.htmDuring World War II, George Keller was an Air Force meteorologist assigned to Labrador. Predicting weather on the North Atlantic was a tricky job under any circumstances, but the pressure wasn't ju...Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69379/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69379/index.htmEvery morning James Kinnear of Texaco rises at six and, in his words, ''messes around'' with his 80 orchids in the greenhouse of his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. ''Orchids are a nice hobby,'' he...Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69193/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69193/index.htmReclusive Australian financier Robert Holmes a Court made a fortune investing in troubled companies he believed could make money quickly or carried almost no risk (FORTUNE, September 2, 1985). In M...Mon, 22 Jun 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/06/01/83922/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/06/01/83922/index.htmWall Street's oddsmakers are working overtime on the biggest special situation in U.S. business history -- the bankruptcy of Texaco, the eighth largest U.S. industrial corporation with sales of $32...Mon, 01 Jun 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/05/25/69076/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/05/25/69076/index.htmWhen Texaco filed for bankruptcy after Pennzoil rejected its $2-billion offer to settle their $11-billion legal battle over Getty Oil, the stocks of both companies tumbled (FORTUNE, May 11). Texaco...Mon, 25 May 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/16/68766/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/16/68766/index.htmThe Dow's continuing trampoline act has investors in a quandary. In just one day in mid-February, the 30 Dow industrials bounced up 54.14 points, a record; within the next two days the average sagg...Mon, 16 Mar 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/02/68611/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/02/68611/index.htmAre you having trouble finding value in the stock market? Then consider the companies in the following table. Gordon Croft, 54, manager of T. Rowe Price's no-load Growth & Income Fund, believes the...Mon, 02 Feb 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/12/08/68378/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/12/08/68378/index.htmThe only folks unaware of the collapse of oil prices, it seems, are the stockholders of big oil companies. Since November 1985, when OPEC opened the spigots in a bid for market share and crude pric...Mon, 08 Dec 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/24/68357/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/24/68357/index.htmTexaco chief John K. McKinley was hardly daunted when a Texas jury ordered his company to pay $10.5 billion for snatching Getty Oil from Pennzoil in 1984 (FORTUNE, March 17). Texaco appealed the ju...Mon, 24 Nov 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/11/01/83539/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/11/01/83539/index.htmJim and Carlene Pasin, parents of two college-age children, are as giddy as newlyweds. And no wonder. For the first time in decades the Walnut Creek, Calif. couple are spending lots of time togethe...Sat, 01 Nov 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/17/67302/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/17/67302/index.htmRIGHT OR WRONG, John K. McKinley makes the decisions at Texaco Inc. No touchy-feely management by consensus for this hardheaded chief executive, and no buck-passing either. Now 65 and scheduled for...Mon, 17 Mar 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/03/67231/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/03/67231/index.htmChevron took some uncomfortable heat for pumping oil in Marxist Angola. First, Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker suggested that Chevron's conduct might not be in the national interest. T...Mon, 03 Mar 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/20/67047/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/20/67047/index.htmContinental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago took another step toward financial recovery by announcing plans to disband the network of 28 banks that had helped it through a liquidity c...Mon, 20 Jan 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/06/66976/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/06/66976/index.htmA Texas state judge upheld a jury verdict requiring Texaco to pay $10.53 billion plus interest to Pennzoil for disrupting Pennzoil's agreement in principle to acquire 43% of Getty Oil. For now at l...Mon, 06 Jan 1986 05:01:00 EST