Hints and tips:
...v) Do recent financial challenges for the company require a reassessment of its climate commitments? The war in Ukraine might be seen as a “black swan” event for global energy markets....
...Pushing: Beyond Petroleum --- Redesign Seeks to Boost Sales of Other Products --- New Filling Stations Feature Internet Kiosks and Gourmet Coffee Will BP Amoco PLC become the Starbucks or Virgin Airlines...
...That’s the name of the product, not the PLC....
...But underlying operating margin was up 80 bps to 18.6 per cent, driven by increased gross margin and further reduced overheads....
...Press Crtl+V. Add share-price forecast: “Market perform”. OK, so that is being rather unfair. And perhaps a tad hypocritical coming from a journalist....
...It is a joint venture between a consortium of oil companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and storage company Vopak....
...Premium products such as V-Power fuel and Helix engine oils have been growing strongly and he wants to strengthen Shell’s 43,000-strong retail network....
...Bank of Ireland lost 513 bps of its fully loaded CET1 ratio, leaving it with a ratio of 6.15 per cent....
...We had hoped to calculate a relative curve of Innies v Outties. But too few of the latter run quoted businesses. Executives at big companies are natural stayers....
...(intoning) Lord, may Thy Holy power move the conscience of BP’s Bob Dudley, if he has one....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
.... ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: BP should pay up for the suffering it has caused / From Mr William V Slade...
...hurt by the spill – they are assumed to be victims if their revenues followed a V-shape in the aftermath....
...However, that requirement can typically be satisfied simply by showing a “V-shaped revenue pattern”: a decline in revenues after the spill, followed by a recovery....
...One of the deal’s weaknesses is that it does not require those who followed that advice to prove they were hurt by the spill – they are assumed to be victims if their revenues followed a V-shape in the aftermath...
...(Financial Times) BP accused of intimidating spill claimants: Lawyers representing claimants seeking compensation for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster have accused BP of “hollow intimidation tactics”...
...Some light reading late on Wednesday: the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum....
...Related reading: RIL: sharing boosts shares, beyondbrics Reliance – Ambani v Ambani, Lex Mukesh Ambani eyes India mobile auction, FT...
...The FTSE Eurofirst 300 declined 0.9 per cent amid some heavyweight earnings disappointments from BP and UBS....
...The encouraging example for BP is Exxon v....
...The book contains woodcuts from July 1530 of Charles V’s entry into Bologna to meet the Pope. “This was a poster given to a few people and as a result it was ephemeral and disappeared....
...Yahoo nabbed y.co.uk and Virgin has v.co.uk. BP will get bp.co.uk, the Football Association fa.co.uk, British Airways ba.co.uk, Burger King bk.co.uk, and Yo! Sushi yo.co.uk....
...not in accordance with Chapter V paragraph 2(b) of the [OECD] Guidelines,” the report said....
...Such is anti-British feeling, that I was forced to watch England v US alone in my hotel room – I invited the BP lads over but they couldn’t make it (!!)....
...Which makes the emerging (and ugly) US v UK meme in bashing BP rather less black and white. Beyond patriotism, indeed....
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