Wall Street Journal | Majors' Quandary: Why Drill for Oil When They Can Buy Somebody Else's? Wall Street Journal He expects the most likely takeover candidates would be oil companies with a stock-market value between $10 billion and $40 billion—relatively small compared with Exxon's $368 billion market capitalization. The rising costs of finding and producing ... ExxonMobil Earnings Preview: Lower Oil Prices To Offset Higher Volume, Better Mix Oil Majors' Quandary: Why Drill for Oil When They Can Buy Somebody Else's? Exxon, Other Oil Company Earnings to Show Some Hope in the Bad News |