Exxon Mobil replaces Walmart as biggest earner

Monday, April 20, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Walmart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for the country's largest publicly traded companies.

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