Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Friday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation,with $45.2 billion annual profit despite the year-end oil plunge..

The Irving, Texas-based company has reported unprecedented back-to-back quarters, the end of the most recent coinciding with a rapid plunge in crude prices.

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