energy companies

Here's another "If you build it, they will come" story. NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) NRG Energy announced on Thursday it was acquiring Goal Zero, a company that makes portable solar battery chargers. Goal Zero's products include small, hand-held solar chargers that can be used to...

A telling sign about rising domestic oil production in the United States: Several energy companies are actually airing commercials and talking about their work, while simultaneously announcing they need new employees. Take, for example, the new television ad that Houston-based Halliburton Co. (...

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is the controversial process of forcing water, gases, chemicals and other materials deep underground to fracture rock layers and free up the gas and oil trapped there. The process has created an oil and natural gas boom in North America and has put...

The recent earnings call from Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) was almost a field guide to making money in the markets for 2014. Co-founders Leon Black and Joshua Harris were relatively open about where they see opportunities to put money to work at very high rates of return this year....