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Exxon and Chevron Earned $25.3 Billion Last Quarter. Refining Made Them Almost as Much as Pumping Oil, and Both Pumped Less.

Exxon Mobil earned $15.4 billion and Chevron $9.9 billion in the third quarter, the companies said on Friday 30 October. Chevron's profit was almost three times its year-earlier figure. Refining and fuel sales supplied nearly half the combined total, while both companies produced less oil and gas than a year earlier.

By Daniel Okafor 1 hour ago

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Omnicom's Organic Growth Reached 7.2 Per Cent in Its Third Quarter With Interpublic. It Has Spent $3.2 Billion on Buybacks This Year, $857 Million More Than Its Free Cash Flow.

Omnicom said on 22 October that third-quarter revenue rose 59 per cent to $6.42 billion, mostly because it now owns Interpublic, and that its continuing businesses grew 7.2 per cent organically. Adjusted earnings per share rose 22 per cent to $2.73. The company repeated that it is on track for $900 million of cost savings from the merger this year.

By Daniel Okafor October 26, 2026

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Exxon and Chevron Earned $25.3 Billion Last Quarter. Refining Made Them Almost as Much as Pumping Oil, and Both Pumped Less.

Omnicom's Organic Growth Reached 7.2 Per Cent in Its Third Quarter With Interpublic. It Has Spent $3.2 Billion on Buybacks This Year, $857 Million More Than Its Free Cash Flow.