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The Irving, Texas, oil giant reported second quarter profits of $4.2 billion, down from $8.8 billion last year, as oil prices fell further Friday on fears of oversupply.

The message follows Royal Dutch Shell's $70 billion offer to acquire rival producer BG.

BP originally said it expected to pay $7.8 billion to resolve claims under the settlement.

Wall Street analysts appear to think big U.S. corporations did well at the end of last year, despite a strong greenback.

Oil giant BP announced Tuesday that it would sign a $20 billion liquefied natural gas with China this week in London.

"It is not possible that the Iraqi government return and fill these huge areas that it left."

Pre-market movers for Tuesday include Vanda, Array, Nuance, Herbalife, American Capital Agency, Potash Corp./Saskatchewan, Mosaic Co and Barclays.

NIKE, Parametric Sound, Finisar, BP Plc, AstraZeneca prevailed in the pre-market trading Friday.

Office Depot Inc, BioLineRX Ltd, Cliffs Natural Resources, Express Scripts Holding, Vodafone Group, Micron Technology, Covidien Plc, BP Plc and Cree Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Tuesday.

Research In Motion, ArcelorMittal, 3D Systems Corp, Dell Inc, Deutsche Bank, BP Plc, Caterpillar, Boeing Co. and Ford Motor Co. are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Tuesday.

Infosys Ltd, Ford Motor, Barclays, AFLAC Inc, BHP Billiton, Advanced Micro Devices, Yum! Brands and BP plc are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Friday.

Clearwire Corp, Alcoa Inc, Barclays Plc, BP Plc, Apollo Group, Sprint Nextel, Nokia Corp and Bank of America Corp are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

Advanced Micro Devices, United States Steel, Deutsche Bank, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, Apple, Citigroup, Facebook, BP Plc and ArcelorMittal are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

SINA Corp, Allot Communications, Nokia Corp, BP Plc, Mellanox, Molycorp, Facebook and Focus Media Holding are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Monday.

Nokia Corp, Deutsche Bank, BP Plc, Advanced Micro Devices, Telefonica, Carnival Corp, Ford Motor, Home Depot, United States Steel Corp, International Business Machines Corp and Halliburton Co. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

Pluristem Therapeutics, Facebook Inc, ARM Holdings Plc, Francesca's Holdings Corp, BP Plc, Nokia Corp, Alcatel Lucent SA, Capital One Financial Corp, Netflix and Lennar Corp. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

Enrique Peña Nieto has enjoyed a comfortable lead against his rivals for much of the Mexican presidential campaign season. But recent polling suggests his victory isn't as certain as it has appeared, leaving analysts pondering the future of Petroleos Mexicanos, the country's creaky state-owned oil company, should the candidate's main leftist rival win on July 1.

BP PLC is selling its stake in Russia-based crude oil and natural gas venture TNK-BP after receiving a unsolicited indications of interest regarding the potential acquisition, the British company said Friday.

BP Plc (BP.L) said on Wednesday it reached definitive agreements with well over 100,000 private plaintiffs to resolve claims for economic, property and medical damages resulting from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

BP PLC and plaintiffs in the largest lawsuit filed in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 have agreed on the terms of a proposed class settlement, according to an order signed late Friday by the judge handling the case.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.5 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.3 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.4 percent at 0819 GMT.

Chevron Corp will unveil on Monday a solar oilfield project that has been hit by cost overruns and delays but serves as a showcase for the technology of Chevron-backed solar thermal company BrightSource Energy.

Chevron Corp has made a deepwater discovery in the Gulf of Mexico at the Moccasin prospect, the site of the first exploratory well permit after the end of last year's deepwater moratorium.

Tropical Storm Lee barreled into southern Louisiana's coast on Sunday, as New Orleans prepared for one of the biggest tests of its flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005.

Texas has prayed for rain during months-long drought that has escalated in recent weeks with severe heat but the Lonestar state probably didn't want a hurricane to solve the dilemma. Forecasters say, however, that the next hurricane serious hurricane threat to the U.S. may not be Hurricane Katia. A new low-pressure system has developed in the Gulf of Mexico that the National Hurricane Center says is likely to become a tropical cyclone in the next two days before possibly threatening the U.S.,...

The next hurricane serious hurricane threat to the U.S. may not be Hurricane Katia, but a new low-pressure system that developed in the Gulf of Mexico that the National Hurricane Center says is likely to become a tropical cyclone in the next two days. The unnamed storm has a good chance of threatening U.S. states on the northern Gulf Coast -- potentially areas hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

A recent Barron's article predicted that oil prices could top $150 next year and if this becomes true it could wreak havoc on the global economy with a devastating impact.

An ExxonMobil pipeline in Montana State ruptured late Friday, which spilled hundreds of barrels of crude oil into the famed Yellowstone River, prompting evacuations of nearby residents.