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Oil price flirting with $100 set to fuel critics — and earnings

Second year of share buy-backs could strengthen companies’ hands but alienate others

Pump pain: A customer buying diesel at a service station in Mississippi, US, last year.
Pump pain: A customer buying diesel at a service station in Mississippi, US, last year.Photo: AP/SCANPIX
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ExxonMobilShellBPEngine No. 1China
Published 4 October 2023, 09:39Updated 4 October 2023, 15:00