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John D Rockefeller would have liked the UK stock market
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance· 3 weeks agoThe richest man in history was probably John D Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, later broken up...
Rockefeller’s Giant Lives On. Energy Industry Mergers Are Resurrecting Standard Oil.
Barrons.com· 3 weeks agoFEATURES - MAIN It’s as if John D. Rockefeller is reaching out from the grave to reassemble his old...
See inside Kykuit, a 40-room mansion in New York that once belonged to the richest man in the world
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 month agoKykuit Mansion.Talia Lakritz/Business Insider Kykuit, a 40-room mansion in Sleepy Hollow, New York,...
Rockefeller Foundation, built on an oil fortune, puts climate crisis at top of philanthropic causes
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOne of the US’s largest foundations has announced that their philanthropy from here on out is going...
Rare historic photos reveal what America's Gilded Age was really like
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe tale of an era Photo Recall/Alamy Railroad barons, gargantuan East Coast mansions and elaborate...
An Oil-Patch Brawl Over a $53 Billion Megadeal Entwines the Legacies of Three CEOs
The Wall Street Journal· 4 weeks agoBUSINESS Days after striking a $53 billion purchase of Hess Chevron Chief Executive Mike Wirth...
What’s So Bad About Fixing Oil Prices?
The Wall Street Journal via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoThe most stable period of oil prices took place between the 1930s and 1970s. - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission accused former...
Apple Is Only the Latest. Trustbusting Has a Long History.
Barrons.com· 3 months agoFEATURES - MAIN The business of America may be business, but cutting corporate titans down to size...
ConocoPhillips is buying Marathon Oil in $22.5 billion deal
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 3 weeks agoBig Oil keeps doing big deals. ConocoPhillips said Wednesday it had agreed to buy Marathon Oil in an...
My Take: There are geopolitical ramifications of world oil
The Holland Sentinel via Yahoo News· 7 months agoUp to this point, my seemingly feckless meanderings in favor of the jump to a better, more...