Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, sank 0.47% to $101.66 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, rising 0.14% to 4,781.58 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, rising 0.30% to 37,656.52. Exxon Mobil Corp. closed $19.04 below its 52-week high ($120.70), which the company achieved on September 28th. Trading volume (14.5 M) remained 7.1 million below its 50-day average volume of 21.7 M. Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology...

Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM inched 0.23% higher to $102.14 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.42% to 4,774.75 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.43% to 37,545.33.

This was the stock's third consecutive day of gains.

Exxon Mobil on Monday announced it’s drilling for lithium in southern Arkansas, with the oil giant expected to begin production of the critical material for electric vehicles by 2027. Exxon in early 2023 acquired the rights to 120000 gross acres (48562 gross hectares) of the Smackover formation in southern Arkansas, considered one of the most prolific lithium resources of its type in North America. Exxon said that by 2030 it aims to produce enough lithium to supply the manufacturing needs more than 1 million electric vehicles. “Lithium is essential to...

We were unable to send the article. Global energy giant ExxonMobil Corp. said Monday morning that it will begin drilling for lithium this month near Magnolia, a move Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said could turn the page on a new chapter of the state's economy. Sanders and Patrick Howarth, the lithium global business manager for ExxonMobil, announced the company's plans during a news conference at the state Capitol. The company plans to tap in the Smackover Formation, which runs through south Arkansas, for brine from which to extract lithium, which...

Israel supports diplomatic efforts to get Hamas to release hostages from Gaza quickly and in large numbers, a move that could delay and possibly alter its ground war, according to people familiar with the negotiations. The place of hostage releases in Israel’s military planning took on concrete meaning on Friday, when an American mother and her 19-year-old daughter from Chicago were set free through the mediation of Qatar. The US is pushing the wealthy Gulf state, which hosts some political leaders of Hamas, to do much more, the people said....

Chevron is buying Hess Corp. for $53 billion and it’s not even the biggest acquisition in the energy sector this month as major producers seize the initiative while oil prices surge. Crude prices rose sharply in early 2022 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and are hovering around $90 per barrel after ticking another 9% higher this year, meaning big drillers are flush with cash and looking for places to invest piles of cash. The Chevron-Hess deal comes less than two weeks after Exxon Mobil said it’ll acquire Irving-based Pioneer Natural...