oil and gas industry

    By Gene Marcial

    | 7:30AM 9/27/2010
    As the world's largest distributor of industrial and commercial supplies to major corporations, W.W. Grainger has been on a roll. Its stock has climbed from $58 in early 2009 to $120 now. And it could double again in the next five years.

    By Gene Marcial

    | 8:30AM 9/09/2010
    The stock is trading at $60 a share -- about where it was during the March 2009 market low. Even as oil has rebounded to $74 from $40 at that time, ExxonMobil languishes. That could soon change.

    By Gene Marcial

    | 7:30AM 7/28/2010
    Construction stocks have lately been dormant, if not huge losers. But some analysts are starting to divine that global engineering and heavy construction will come alive in the second half of 2010. And they're changing their tune on Foster Wheeler.