Big oil companies finished 2018 strong, despite plunge in prices

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The world’s largest Western oil companies shrugged off a plunge in oil prices in the final months of 2018 and posted some of their biggest annual profits in years. The strong fourth-quarter earnings released this morning by ExxonMobil and Chevron Corp., following similar results by Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday, demonstrated that the big oil

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