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...focus on companies with steady profits that are already paying a dividend. "They have the ability to keep paying and raising their dividend and have demonstrated the willingness," says Deborah Kuenstner, head of value investing at Putnam Investments. Her picks include power companies Entergy and Florida Power, oil company ExxonMobil and consumer-products maker Procter & Gamble. Other analysts like drugs (Pfizer, Wyeth), financials (AIG FleetBoston) and phones (Verizon, SBC). Proven funds that target dividends: T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and Capital Income Builder...
Driving the oil rush are the prospect of higher prices and Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch/Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco and independents such as Amerada Hess, based in New York...
Were increasing the profits of U.S. energy companies actually President Bush’s driving motivation, he would not be preparing the American military for a massive operation. The reason ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil are currently unable to tap the wealth of resources in Iraq is because of the U.N.-imposed economic sanctions that have been in place since Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The easiest way to get at Iraqi oil, therefore, is to end sanctions. Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic magazine, illustrated this point in early October. “Attacking Saddam...
...Security concerns, too, continue to dog foreign operators, who are targets for myriad Indonesian groups with grievances and agendas. Last year, ExxonMobil closed its gas field in Aceh for four months due to safety concerns as violence escalated in the region, where separatist rebels are fighting a guerrilla war against the government. Now 3,000 government troops guard the site, but turmoil continues. Earlier this year, a bicyclist carried a pipe bomb to within a few hundred meters of the front gate of the gas field operation when the bomb detonated prematurely, killing him. "Indonesia is becoming the Nigeria...
...Middle East - a search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and Chevron and independents such as New York-based Amerada Hess. American firms have been particularly aggressive in wooing new producing countries like Equatorial Guinea and can tap their experience in deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. West African oil is low in sulphur, which makes it easy...