Last week the Big Oil companies weighed in with their earnings reports, and it was mostly a pretty sorry assembly.
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Oil giants Chevron and BP made moves to refine their business, drilling down on core segments that crude demand assures will be worth it.
On Monday, BP announced it will put its US onshore wind power business, estimated to be worth about $2 billion, on the market.
ExxonMobil forecast that oil demand will remain above 100 million barrels per day in 2050, roughly the same as current levels.
The tight supply of both beans meant trading prices were extremely volatile, and the result was that cocoa almost tripled in price last year.
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Which way Trump will lean on the issue is difficult to say, though tech companies have worked hard to curry the incoming president’s favor.