While Exxon's quarterly profit was up 75 percent from a year earlier, and revenue rose 32 percent to more than $100 billion , the results fell short of Wall Street forecasts due to production outages caused by the hurricanes and sharply lower profit at the company's chemicals division.
"They were a bit disappointing , but this a temporary phenomenon," said Paul Kuklinski, an analyst with Boston Energy Research/Soleil Securities. "This is largely attributable to hurricane effects."
Exxon shares closed down about 1 percent.
If my math is right that's $12,860.08 A SECOND for 90 days.
I wonder how much more we all needed to be ripped off in order to satisfy Wall Sreet.