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BP hikes dividend as Q4 profits soar to $7.6bn

IFAonline | 07 Feb 2012 | 07:45

UK oil leviathan BP today announced its first dividend hike since it resumed payouts a year ago, after revealing profits had soared in the fourth quarter of 2011.

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Round-up: Italian govt near collapse over Eurozone reforms

Eurozone leaders' struggle to stabalise the economic area by demanding tighter fiscal reforms is driving the governments of weak member states ot the brink. This and other news in our round-up of this morning's nationals.

IFAonline | 26 Oct 2011 | 08:01
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Call for cap on largest income funds

The largest equity income funds should be capped to protect investors from concentration risk, according to RWC Partners’ Ian Lance.

IFAonline | 27 Sep 2011 | 11:00

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BP shares tumble as profits disappoint

Oil major BP saw its shares fall in early trading on disappointing second quarter earnings and an 11% drop in production.

IFAonline | 26 Jul 2011 | 09:09
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Health secretary brands public pension reforms 'unrealistic'

More public sector pensions uproar, UK recovery fears and still no deal on the US debt ceiling. Our round-up of the news from the nationals.

IFAonline | 26 Jul 2011 | 08:06
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BP reaches Deepwater settlement

BP has reached a compensation settlement with one of the owners of the well which leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last year.

IFAonline | 20 May 2011 | 14:00
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BP Rosneft deal collapses

BP’s troubled deal with state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft has fallen through.

IFAonline | 17 May 2011 | 09:28
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BP scrambles to salvage Rosneft deal

BP is in last minute talks with Russian state oil firm Rosneft in attempt to salvage the proposed $16bn (£9.9bn) share swap deal before the midnight deadline tonight.

IFAonline | 16 May 2011 | 07:49
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BP fined $25m over 2006 spill

Oil major BP has agreed a deal with the US Department of Justice to pay $25m following the Prudhoe Bay oil spill in 2006.

IFAonline | 04 May 2011 | 07:32
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Going global with equity income

With the hunt for income becoming increasingly strained, top fund managers say investors should not be limiting their income exposure to the UK.

Professional Adviser | 27 Apr 2011 | 15:00
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BP takes profit hit from oil spill clean-up

BP profits fell 2% to £3.32bn in Q1 2011, as the oil giant sold assets to pay for the clean-up operation from last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster.

IFAonline | 27 Apr 2011 | 07:45
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Named: The world's most powerful company

Financials dominate Forbes 2010 list of the biggest, most powerful companies in the world after a year of stellar performance and eye-watering profits.

IFAonline | 20 Apr 2011 | 14:30
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BP one year on: How events unfolded

A year on from the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history and saw the oil giant's share price plunge more than 50% in 50 days, we recap the key events...

IFAonline | 20 Apr 2011 | 07:30

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