Oil firms 'set for profits boost'
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BP and Shell are on track to unveil record quarterly profits helped by surging world oil prices, press reports claim.
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Greater segment balance should make earnings season kind to energy companies.
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Heading into the heart of earnings season this week the expected results look robust, but a slowing of future profit growth and the impact of surging oil prices on the economy could conspire to hold down stocks.
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LONDON  - World oil prices climbed on Monday as companies operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico braced for output disruptions from powerful Hurricane Ivan.
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British gas giant BG Group has said that net profits leapt 23 percent last year on rising production and increased energy prices.
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World oil prices climbed on Monday as companies operating in the US Gulf of Mexico braced for output disruptions from powerful Hurricane Ivan.
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Oil Giant BP Plc reported bumper  third-quarter profits thanks to high oil prices, but its higher  capital expenditure plans raised some concerns about the size  of future share buybacks.
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MAKE hay while the sun shines, they say. Or, in the oil majorsâ case, pump oil while the price rockets. BP yesterday, and no doubt Shell tomorrow, are doing just that, with profits going through the roof
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Business & money: Oil group to post highest earnings by a British firm as RAC urges the chancellor to cancel rise in fuel duty
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Heading into the heart of earnings  season next week the expected results look robust, but a  slowing of future profit growth and the impact of surging oil  prices on the economy could conspire to hold down stocks.
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Japan's business confidence is improving and firms are set to boost investment in the coming months.
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Local analysts said the jump in world oil prices, if sustained, could push up petrol prices another 42c/l in coming months, boosting inflation and slowing down spending in the economy.
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Buoyed by soaring crude oil prices, Exxon Mobil announced yesterday that it set new records for U.S. quarterly and annual corporate profits in 2007, and Chevron, the nation's second-largest oil company, also reported big gains in earnings.
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Oil prices hit record highs on  Thursday, fueling gains in some energy stocks, but fears that  high power costs will dent household incomes, raise firms'  expenses and hurt global growth weighed on Asian share markets.
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Oil prices at record highs sent quarterly profits up at ConocoPhillips  and two other top U.S. producers on Wednesday.
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Profit margins should continue to expand at Oil-Dri.
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Shares on Wall Street are expected to open higher on Tuesday, as stronger oil prices are likely to underpin energy stocks and investors bet on strong earnings from network equipment maker Cisco Systems .