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Oil Reports Are Slim and Slippery

By Jim Cramer

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 Would someone please show me an article about the oils that is as robust and positive as the action? Will someone please show me something that isn't negative about the group? Will someone give us insight as to why the group is higher, and I don't mean the meager Exxon Mobil dividend boost, even as it is great to see with this decline in crude? Today, I steamed when I read this cheap-shot "Heard on the Street" piece about the BP dividend, the endless hectoring that it can't be maintained. The quarter was great, the company has been committed to it, and the company has made it clear that there is no problem given these prices for oil. Plus, we crave some analysis that is positive here about the drillers because Baker Hughes says that the rig count has been cut in half, and we...

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