<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Royal Dutch Shell plc: News &amp; Videos about Royal Dutch Shell plc - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Royal_Dutch_Shell_plc</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Royal Dutch Shell plc from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:09:01 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Royal Dutch Shell plc: News &amp; Videos about Royal Dutch Shell plc - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Royal_Dutch_Shell_plc</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Royal Dutch Shell plc from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Nigerian militants claim pipeline blast, tanker crew's seizure</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/06/niger.militants/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/06/niger.militants/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nigerian militants said Monday they had blown up an oil pipeline and captured six crew members of a chemical tanker.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>No Gloating for Big Oil</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1819628,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1819628,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In a week when oil prices shot to $143 a barrel, the mood at the World Petroleum Congress was surprisingly somber</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Briefing: Oil</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/13/Oilbriefing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/13/Oilbriefing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>We rely on it to power our everyday lives, and it drives the economy worldwide, but oil faces an uncertain future in the 21st century. Black gold is increasingly expensive, environmentally damaging and, in the view of some experts, increasingly scarce.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shell Oil president: To cut price, produce more gasoline in U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/30/shell.qa/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/30/shell.qa/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Gasoline prices set a record for the 16th consecutive day Wednesday. A gallon of gas cost an average of $3.62, according to AAA, and much more in some markets. </description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>In defense of oil companies</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/29/markets/thebuzz/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/29/markets/thebuzz/index.htm</guid><description>Oil 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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress, critical of tax breaks, lays into oil execs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/01/news/companies/oil_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/01/news/companies/oil_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>Lawmakers grilled executives from the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies Tuesday, criticizing them for taking tax subsidies and not investing in renewable resources amid record prices for oil and gasoline.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The hijack-proof truck</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/03/technology/hijack_proof_truck.biz2/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/03/technology/hijack_proof_truck.biz2/index.htm</guid><description>You can't go far wrong in a truck equipped with an Astrata box. The device, half the size of a cigarette pack, can be wired into anything that moves - truck, car, shipping container - to head off nearly every conceivable type of disaster.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Royal Dutch Shell's profit leaps 20%</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/26/news/international/bc.shell.q2results.reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/26/news/international/bc.shell.q2results.reut/index.htm</guid><description>Royal Dutch Shell Plc bucked an industry-wide trend of falling earnings on Thursday, posting a 20 percent rise in second-quarter profits as fat refining margins helped outweigh lower output.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW THE COMPANIES MEASURE UP RANKED BY PERFORMANCE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100135842/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100135842/index.htm</guid><description>Exxon Mobil (No. 2) had a record $39.5 billion profits, which is impressive enough. Even more remarkable is that its earnings grew $3.4 billion in 2006, while Royal Dutch Shell (No. 3) had only a small increase, and BP (No. 4) saw profits fall. Russian gas giant Gazprom (No. 52) grew its profits 37%, to $20.3 billion. </description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil turns lower as supplies grow</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/05/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/05/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices turned lower Wednesday after the government said supplies of crude rose far more than traders had expected.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil rises on refinery outages</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/25/markets/oil.reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/25/markets/oil.reut/index.htm</guid><description>Oil rose Monday as a string of U.S. refining outages again sparked concerns of a supply shortfall in the midst of the top consumer's peak driving season.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil closes lower after gasoline supplies jump</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/16/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/16/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices dipped nearly $1 on Wednesday after the government said supplies of gasoline and crude oil jumped more than traders had expected.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 13:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil falls as gasoline demand slows</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/02/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/02/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices fell Wednesday after the government said growth in gasoline demand eased, refineries ramped up production and inventories were in line with estimates.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 14:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tech bulls could shake it up</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</guid><description>Shake-ups and results in the tech sector could boost U.S. stocks when the markets open Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Santa Claus rally reignites</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/26/markets/markets_0405/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/26/markets/markets_0405/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks rose Tuesday, in one of the last four trading sessions of the year, as falling oil prices helped offset a weak report on holiday retail sales.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Guess what? Santa's back on Wall Street</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/26/markets/markets_0130/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/26/markets/markets_0130/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks posted gains in light holiday-week trading Tuesday as a big drop in oil prices helped offset a weak report on holiday retail sales.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Thursday's late-moving stocks</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/markets/late_movers_1026/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/markets/late_movers_1026/index.htm</guid><description>Here are some stocks that were moving in late trading Thursday:</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wall Street: Bullish after the Fed</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks looked to continue their rally Thursday following the gains in overseas markets after the Federal Reserve left rates here unchanged.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Royal Dutch Shell ranks No. 3 on FORTUNE's 2006 Global 500</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/18/news/companies/royal_dutch_shell.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/18/news/companies/royal_dutch_shell.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Royal Dutch Shell ranks no. 3 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $306.7 billion in revenues, up 14.2% from the previous year. The The Hague, Netherlands-based company was ranked no. 4 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $25.3 billion, up 39.2% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ranked by performance</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381741/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381741/index.htm</guid><description>Gushing black gold Energy and oil companies enjoyed the highest jumps in revenue and income in 2005. No. 3 Royal Dutch Shell  reported $25 billion in profits, second to No. 1 Exxon Mobil's $36 bill... </description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Notes</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381699/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381699/index.htm</guid><description>EXPLANATIONS AND FOOTNOTES</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Executive bookmark</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381730/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381730/index.htm</guid><description>1. Exxon Mobil</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The best investment bets abroad</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381694/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381694/index.htm</guid><description>For years American investors were notorious stay-at-homes, resisting the advice of investment strategists to diversify globally. But over the past 18 months, that's been changing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Notes</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381720/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/24/8381720/index.htm</guid><description>EXPLANATIONS AND FOOTNOTES </description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senators to Big Oil: Where's the money?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/14/markets/oil_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/14/markets/oil_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>Senators, considering a bill to restrict energy industry mergers and tax breaks, grilled oil executives again Tuesday as to why they are reaping record profits while consumers pay record prices at the pump.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Wanna Make a Bet on Biofuels? </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367942/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367942/index.htm</guid><description>Trying to invest in ethanol and biofuels today is a bit like Internet investing in the '90s. Most of the publicly traded companies are pint-sized crapshoots, and it's not yet clear whether the early-to-the-game blue chips are pursuing the best strategies. So there are going to be many, many more pets.coms than eBays in agrifuels. More Time Warners than Microsofts. Indeed, many of the venture capitalists bankrolling tomorrow's ethanol IPOs (see "How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline Forever!") are the same folks who funded the '90s dot-com debacle.  </description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Wanna make a bet on biofuels?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/30/markets/biofuelinvesting_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/30/markets/biofuelinvesting_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Trying to invest in ethanol and biofuels today is a bit like Internet investing in the '90s. Most of the publicly traded companies are pint-sized crapshoots, and it's not yet clear whether the early-to-the-game blue chips are pursuing the best strategies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil ends higher after inventory report</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/21/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/21/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices held steady before climbing further above $58 a barrel Wednesday after the Energy Information Administration reported that crude stockpiles rose, but that the supply of distillates used for heating fell.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil executives in the hot seat</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/07/news/economy/oil_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/07/news/economy/oil_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>CEOs from the nation's biggest oil companies face a grilling in Congress Wednesday before a joint Senate committee hearing on energy prices and record industry profits.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Shell profit up 68% on oil prices</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/27/news/international/shell.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/27/news/international/shell.dj/index.htm</guid><description>Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday unveiled a 68% third- quarter profit due to a 49% increase for the price of oil and gas that it sold, as well as the sale of pipeline assets.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two refineries report damage</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/rita.refineries/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/rita.refineries/index.html</guid><description>Damage was reported Saturday at two oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico area  following Hurricane Rita, but the full extent of the damage from the storm is still being assessed.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebuilding post-Katrina - follow the $$$</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/21/markets/katrina_reconstruction/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/21/markets/katrina_reconstruction/index.htm</guid><description>With President Bush promising massive aid to rebuild the devastated Gulf Coast, investors are eyeing what companies stand to benefit from the rebuilding process.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wal-Mart tops Fortune Global 500</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/11/news/fortune500/global500/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/11/news/fortune500/global500/index.htm</guid><description>Wal-Mart took No. 1 on Fortune magazine's annual list of the Global 500, the fourth year in a row the retailer has placed at the top of the list.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FTC clears Shell in refinery closing</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/26/news/international/ftc_shell.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/26/news/international/ftc_shell.dj/index.htm</guid><description>The Federal Trade Commission has concluded Royal Dutch/Shell Group ( RD, SC) wasn't trying to drive up California gasoline prices by closing a refinery in Bakersfield, Calif.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2005 09:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks in hover mode</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/23/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/23/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks stalled early Thursday, one session after a steep selloff caused the Dow's biggest one-day point drop in nearly seven weeks.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shell settles fraud case for $150M</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/24/news/international/royaldutchshell_sec/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/24/news/international/royaldutchshell_sec/index.htm</guid><description>Royal Dutch/Shell has agreed to pay about $150 million to settle charges by U.S. and British regulators that it vastly overstated oil reserves.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Shell ready to rebound? Big Oil</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/09/377912/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/09/377912/index.htm</guid><description>Right now Royal Dutch/Shell Group is the oil company Wall Street loves to hate. The reason, of course, is that its managers misled the public about the size of its reserves, prompting the resignati...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks to watch Thursday</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/09/markets/afterbell/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/09/markets/afterbell/index.htm</guid><description>Investors will be looking at the economic data due out Thursday hoping for some insight into how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, as well as news about Accenture, Apple and H&amp;amp;R Block.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Earth's oil gauge on low?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/20/markets/oil_reserves/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/20/markets/oil_reserves/index.htm</guid><description>With oil hovering near record prices and OPEC saying it's out of their control, the question of whether the planet is nearing the end of its oil supply has again arisen.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 14:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shell Reassigns Finance Executive</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/08/news/international/shell_reassigns.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/08/news/international/shell_reassigns.dj/index.htm</guid><description>Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch/Shell Group, grappling with a number of investigations into its energy-reserves accounting, said it reassigned the top financial executive at its exploration-and-production business, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shell Eased Accounting Rules In Mid-'90s</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/18/news/international/shell_eased.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/18/news/international/shell_eased.dj/index.htm</guid><description>Royal Dutch/Shell Group's guidelines on accounting for natural-gas reserves were relaxed as early as the mid-1990s, a move that appears to have played a role in Shell's overstatement of its energy holdings, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-Shell Chairman Told of Reserve Issues</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/08/news/international/former_shell.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/08/news/international/former_shell.dj/index.htm</guid><description>The ousted chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell Group (RD) was warned of possible overstatements in the oil titan's petroleum reserves two years before he publicly disclosed them, two people familiar with the situation told The Wall Street Journal.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>From Green to Gold Shell's improving social-responsibility record makes the oil giant attractive to investors.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/10/352855/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/10/352855/index.htm</guid><description>Over the past couple of years a surprising trait has emerged among the oil giants: Some of their most outstanding employees are actually environmentalists. Or at least you'd think so from their adv...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FORTUNE Global 5 Hundred Profits? What profits? It             was a bad year for big business--and a year of big change        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/07/22/326285/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/07/22/326285/index.htm</guid><description>It was a record year--for losses. Of the world's 500 largest companies, 297 saw profits fall. Total earnings in 2001 were less than half what they were the previous year, by far the largest one-yea...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Best Investments 2002 After two dreary years, the             stock forecast calls for partly clearing skies in 2002. We        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/01/01/315606/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/01/01/315606/index.htm</guid><description>When 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...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2002 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE WORLD'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/27/233300/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/27/233300/index.htm</guid><description>What does it take to join the elite club of the world's most admired companies? When FORTUNE, with the help of worldwide consulting firm the Hay Group, set out to create the first-ever list of glob...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY IS THE WORLD'S MOST PROFITABLE COMPANY TURNING ITSELF INSIDE OUT? ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL LOOKED AT THE FUTURE AND DIDN'T LIKE THE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/04/229713/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/04/229713/index.htm</guid><description>By all the usual measures, Royal Dutch/Shell should be sitting on top of the world. For the third year in a row it leads the Global 500 in total profits, having earned a staggering $8.9 billion in ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FORTUNE'S GLOBAL 500/THE WORLD'S LARGEST CORPORATIONS             A BIGGER, RICHER WORLD</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/08/05/215444/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/08/05/215444/index.htm</guid><description>The giants of world business charted new territory last year, from cigarette factories in Uzbekistan to oil pipelines in Bolivia, as FORTUNE's Global 500 pushed across borders to seize fresh market...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>11 GREAT WAYS TO HATCH A DOUBLE-DIGIT RETURN IN '96             CONSERVATIVE INVESTORS SHOULD NOW BE GOING BACK TO BASICS TO    </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/03/01/210152/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/03/01/210152/index.htm</guid><description>LIKE MANY SMALL INVESTORS, YOU MAY STILL BE celebrating last year's 30%-plus returns on stocks and equity mutual funds. If you are, then we're sorry to say that the economy is down to its last bott...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 1996 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THESE PLUMP STOCKS CAN CUSHION YOU IN A MARKET DROP</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/10/01/206633/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/10/01/206633/index.htm</guid><description>IF YOU'RE LIKE MOST SAVVY INVESTORS, the fact that dividend yields are at record lows while stock prices hover near record highs has given you pause. Could this classic danger signal for equities p...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 RANKED BY PERFORMANCE  </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/08/07/205153/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/08/07/205153/index.htm</guid><description>BIGGEST INCREASES IN REVENUES </description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BIOTECH MAKES ITS MARK ON COUNTERFEITS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/07/24/204789/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/07/24/204789/index.htm</guid><description>Stopping counterfeiters is a relentless battle for brand manufacturers, whose detection systems are foiled by ever clever copiers. The International Anticounterfeiting Coalition Inc. in Washington,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CZECHS SPURN WESTERN MATES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/19/79775/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/19/79775/index.htm</guid><description>The prosperous Czech Republic faces an unusual problem: too much foreign capital. The central bank's reserves of Western currency rose from $3.8 billion to some $5.3 billion in this year's first ni...</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE 500 RANKED BY PERFORMANCE </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/07/25/79553/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/07/25/79553/index.htm</guid><description>Exxon, by pumping profits up 10.7%, to $5.28 billion, passed Royal Dutch/Shell (last year's profit champ) to become the world's most profitable company -- good news, surely, to several thousand Ala...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHAT'S NEW WITH CREDIT CARDS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/03/07/79069/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/03/07/79069/index.htm</guid><description>Joint accounts are the bane of many a household, but not in the credit card business. Co-branded credit cards -- those issued jointly by businesses and card companies, like those shown here -- are ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GREAT DEALS IN ENERGY STOCKS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/02/01/88615/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/02/01/88615/index.htm</guid><description>Remember 1986, when a temporary oil glut caused crude prices to sink to $10 a barrel? Investors who ignored experts' warnings of a prolonged period of low oil prices and bought languishing energy s...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>STOCKS A RETIREE CAN STICK WITH Here's how one             investor is able to reap growing dividends from safe             comp</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/25/78503/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/25/78503/index.htm</guid><description>DON'T JUST DO something, sit there. That's been my style of portfolio management since the late Seventies, when I began investing for retirement. I wanted a collection of stocks I could treat with ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FORTUNE'S GLOBAL 500 RANKED WITHIN INDUSTRIES </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/07/26/78098/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/07/26/78098/index.htm</guid><description>As they did last year, American corporations ranked No. 1 in sales in 14 of the 25 industry groups we survey. Profits were something else. General Motors not only remains the largest company in the...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CAN EUROPE COMPETE? Vital European industries like autos and electronics look wobbly. Needed: more aggressiveness, less provinci</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/12/02/75811/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/12/02/75811/index.htm</guid><description>HOW FAT, or fit, is European industry? Are Europe's big manufacturers, as protectionists there would have you believe, a bunch of nymphs, soon to be victims of invading satyrs in the form of foreig...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>SHELL GETS RICH BY BEATING RISK The Anglo-Dutch giant has become the world's biggest and most profitable petroleum company by pr</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/08/26/75405/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/08/26/75405/index.htm</guid><description>SIR PETER HOLMES has a way of brushing death aside. 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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...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW YOU CAN FIND HIGH-YIELD STOCKS IN FARAWAY PLACES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/02/01/85644/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/02/01/85644/index.htm</guid><description>Income-oriented investors usually stick to U.S. issues. But this year they might also consider high-yielding foreign stocks that trade in the U.S. as American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), which are ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>BIG OIL FACES A BIG SQUEEZE Dwindling reserves, environmentalist pressures, and newly tough foreign competition will plague U.S.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72560/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72560/index.htm</guid><description>THE BATTERED oil industry could use a respite after 15 years of wild booms, painful busts, and run-amok prices. At first glance the 1990s look like just &amp;amp; what the doctor ordered. Most forecasters ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONS THE NEW SHAPE OF GLOBAL BUSINESS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/31/72275/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/31/72275/index.htm</guid><description>A 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...</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>INVESTMENTS: A '90S HEDGE FOR INFLATION -- BLACK GOLD</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/04/01/85052/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/04/01/85052/index.htm</guid><description>Investors were shocked by last month's 0.6% surge in the consumer price index. That represents a 7.1% annual rate, compared with the recent 4% to 4.5% rate. In addition, the producer price index, w...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>POLLUTION: WHO WILL PAY?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/13/71743/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/13/71743/index.htm</guid><description>Companies that knowingly pollute can no longer count on their insurance policies to cover the cleanup costs. A California superior court jury decided that Shell Oil was aware that it was damaging t...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FINANCIAL PLANNING </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/11/01/84772/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/11/01/84772/index.htm</guid><description>-- Before you buy personal financial software, be sure you're ready to commit two hours each week to entering your data. (Page 47) </description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHERE TO GET GROWTH AND TOP YIELDS TOO </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/11/01/84811/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/11/01/84811/index.htm</guid><description>If you are seeking capital gains, you might start by looking for high yields. A recent study by John Slatter, an analyst at the brokerage Prescott Ball &amp;amp; Turben in Cleveland, shows that investors w...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>NIFTY NINETIES 100 BEST INVESTMENTS Growth with             Income The choices listed here pay you while you wait for           </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/10/12/84753/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/10/12/84753/index.htm</guid><description>-- Bank of Boston Sporting a 4% dividend yield, Bank of Boston could produce 20% annual earnings growth as its business prospers along with the New England region. Recent price: $27.25. 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They generated sales in 1987 of $1.5 trillion...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CASHING IN ON CASH FLOW Forget reported earnings, say some stock pickers, and look at the real money rolling in.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70556/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70556/index.htm</guid><description>When acquirers are cruising, they often sail right by companies with low price/earnings multiples. Earnings figures are too easily manipulated to be of interest by themselves. But let a company gen...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE BIGGEST BOSSES 3. L. C. 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''More than most big companies, Royal...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ten Foreign Stocks for Beginners Getting started investing abroad doesn't have to be difficult, if you stick to big-name issues.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/05/01/83847/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/05/01/83847/index.htm</guid><description>Buying individual foreign stocks may appear at first glance to be beyond the scope of most beginning investors (see the story on page 75). But aspiring internationalists should not be daunted. The ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A GOOD TIME TO BUY OIL STOCKS? With the price of crude holding steady, some segments of the business could start to smell like m</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/16/68766/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/16/68766/index.htm</guid><description>The 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...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>AMERICA'S MOST ADMIRED CORPORATIONS The king is dethroned: IBM, No. 1 since the survey began, drops to seventh place. Long live </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/19/68593/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/19/68593/index.htm</guid><description>IN ALL the first four years of FORTUNE's annual survey of the most admired companies in America, one corporation has reigned as No. 1. But not in the latest survey. IBM is still right up there amon...</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHAT'S FUELING OIL STOCKS? Crude prices are way down, yet high dividends have propelled the shares to levels that look unsustain</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/12/08/68378/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/12/08/68378/index.htm</guid><description>The 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...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE SURPRISING NEW POWER OF PATENTS Thanks mostly to a new appeals court, patent holders are winning many more suits against inf</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/06/23/67747/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/06/23/67747/index.htm</guid><description>RUSHING to introduce an instant camera by 1976, Eastman Kodak's development committee issued a startling directive: ''Development should not be constrained by what an individual feels is potential ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY ROYAL DUTCH IS KING OF OIL STOCKS Oil investors looking for a haven have rediscovered the Shell group, which has been adding</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/28/67481/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/28/67481/index.htm</guid><description>PLUNGING OIL PRICES have kept stock prices of most oil companies from enjoying the bull market, but Royal Dutch/Shell has fared strikingly better than its competitors. 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