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The Cash Machine at Exxon





What a cash cow of Exxon! Can you believe a company can make 11 figure profit in a quarter? The $10.5 billion quarterly profit makes Microsoft's $10.8 billion quarterly revenue pale.

From AP:

Oil industry behemoth Exxon Mobil's earnings rose to $10.49 billion in the third quarter, the second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company. Its shares briefly rose to a 52-week high.

The report Thursday comes as high crude prices this year have fueled record profits in the oil industry, triggering an outcry from consumers who were being asked to pay about $3 a gallon for gasoline in early August.

The largest quarterly profit ever was Exxon Mobil Corp.'s $10.71 billion profit in the fourth quarter of 2005.

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