...gave the impression that he felt he had completed a mission."There is nothing better than our third quarter earnings announcement to demonstrate definitively that we have turned this company around," he wrote.Corbat said he was humbled...

...tax rates.An industry analyst on questioned ConocoPhillips executives about that issue last week following the earnings announcement, noting the high profits "even with the penalty of the new tax regime in Alaska."Jeffrey Sheets, Conoco's...

...for special charges, increased 40 percent to $6.21 billion from $4.43 billion in the previous year. The earnings announcement caused the company's price per share to surge as high as 509.5 pence ($8.10) on the London Stock Exchange...