据世界石油9月2日休斯敦报道，埃克森美孚公司即将从标普500指数的前10大公司中退出，这是从该指数自90年前创立以来的第一次。这代表了科技巨头取代工业巨头成为美国股市的龙头老大已经成为长期趋势。

彭博社编制的数据显示，Visa在8月1日取代埃克森美孚成为该指数第十大成份股公司，两周后宝洁公司也超过了该石油巨头。标准普尔道琼斯指数可能会在周六公布月底权重时证实这一消息。

能源经济与金融分析研究所所长Tom Sanzillo表示:“石油行业已经从世界经济的领头羊变成了落后者。”埃克森美孚在标准普尔10强的存在要追溯到20世纪20年代。

过去10年，Facebook、亚马逊和微软等科技巨头的增长与在全球开采出大量石油的页岩革命同步，这给能源公司带来了压力。埃克森美孚曾是大型石油公司的黄金标准，但也犯了一些错误:在俄罗斯受到制裁之前押注俄罗斯;2010年油价暴跌时，该公司大举投资美国天然气。

由于许多投资者押注于后碳氢化合物时代，能源行业面临着一场与涉及广泛的投资者保持相关性的战斗。与10年前的11.7%相比，该行业在标普500指数中只占4.4%。

裘寅 编译自 世界石油

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Exxon poised to drop from S&P 500’s top 10 for first time ever

Exxon Mobil is poised to drop out of the S&P 500 Index’s 10 biggest companies for the first time since the index’s inception some 90 years ago, the consummation of a long-term trend of tech titans replacing industrial giants in the top ranks of U.S. stock market.

Visa replaced Exxon as the 10th biggest member of the index by weighting on Aug. 1 and two weeks later Procter & Gamble Co. also overtook the oil giant, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. S&P Dow Jones Indices will likely confirm the move when it publishes its month-end weightings Saturday.

“The oil sector has gone from being the leader of the world economy to a laggard,” said Tom Sanzillo, director of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, who traces Exxon’s presence in the S&P top 10 back to the 1920s.

The growth of technology giants like Facebook, Amazon.com and Microsoft over the past decade coincided with the shale revolution that created an abundance of oil globally, weighing on energy companies. Exxon, once the gold standard in Big Oil, also has made some missteps: betting on Russia just before the country was slapped with sanctions and plowing money into U.S. natural gas in 2010 as prices collapsed.

With many investors betting on a post-hydrocarbon world, energy faces a battle to stay relevant to generalist investors. The sector makes up just 4.4% of the S&P 500 Index compared with 11.7% a decade ago.