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BP and Shell are shutting down the Sapref plant, which meets 35% of South Africa''s fuel needs, while they search for a buyer.

BP plc - ADR (BP) shares closed today at 1.9% below its 52 week high of $33.70, giving the company a market cap of $108B. The stock is currently up 23.9% year-to-date, up 59.5% over the past 12 months, and up 30.6% over the past five years. This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5%, and the S&P 500 rose 0.0%. Trading Activity Trading volume this week was 10.6% higher than the 20-day average.Beta, a measure of the stock’s volatility relative to the overall market stands at 0.7. Technical Indicators The Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the stock was between 30 and 70.MACD, a trend-following momentum indicator, indicates an upward trend.The stock closed below its Bollinger band, indicating it may be oversold. Market Comparative Performance The company's share price is the same as the S&P 500 Index , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis The company's share price is the same as the Dow Jones Industrial Average , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis Per Group Comparative Performance The company's stock price performance year-to-date beats the peer average by 63.0% The company's stock price performance over the past 12 months beats the peer average by 30.5% This story was produced by the Kwhen Automated News Generator. For more articles like this, please visit us at finance.kwhen.com. Write to [email protected]. © 2020 Kwhen Inc.

By bolstering a select few oil operations and pumping funds into renewable energy projects, BP is already emerging stronger in the early days of its transition. This week, BP reported its highest profits in 8 years as the company says it is “performing while transforming”. BP announced that it has experienced a huge full-year net profit, supported by high commodity prices. The British energy firm has reported an underlying replacement cost profit of $12.8 billion for 2021, following a net loss of $5.7 billion in 2020. Bernard…

Labours Ed Miliband is right to call for a one-off increase in corporation tax on North Sea producers to fund lower bills for consumers Windfall taxes are nothing new. Margaret Thatchers government was one of the most notable users of the tactic with one-off levies on banks and oil companies for making excess gains in the early 1980s. Perhaps the fact that such duties find favour with the public surprises some who think economic populism is passé. But with gas prices trebling and the bosses of fossil fuel companies proclaiming cash machine profits, surely Labours Ed Miliband is right to call for a one-off increase in corporation tax on North Sea producers to fund lower bills for consumers. Big oils claim that it is paying its fair share to the Treasury is not credible, given that handouts from the state have often actually exceeded the tax take that the industry generates. Between 2018 and 2020, Shell and BP, which together produce more than 1.7bn tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, paid no corporation tax or production levies on North Sea oil operations and claimed tax reliefs of nearly £400m.

BP (BP) declares $0.3276/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous

The oil giant revealed its four-fold increase in profits alongside pledges on investment in cleaner energy When BP revealed this week that bumper profits had reached an eight-year high, helped by the same soaring gas prices that have fuelled a national cost of living crisis, it had a political sweetener already prepared. The oil firm revealed the four-fold profit increase to $12.8bn alongside a promise to spend more on low-carbon energy alternatives, and invest more than £2 for every £1 it made in Britain this decade. Continue reading

Deepesh Baxi, CFO and Wholetime Director, Castrol India Limited, talks about Q3FY22 numbers, margins, supply chain, partnership with 3M, companies services with BP, EV Fluids, segmental performance, the current cash position of the company and product launch pipeline among others during an exclusive interview with Zee Business.

BP plc - ADR (BP) shares closed today at 1.8% below its 52 week high of $33.59, giving the company a market cap of $107B. The stock is currently up 23.2% year-to-date, up 56.5% over the past 12 months, and up 30.0% over the past five years. This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.4%. Trading Activity Trading volume this week was 24.6% higher than the 20-day average.Beta, a measure of the stocks volatility relative to the overall market stands at 0.7. Technical Indicators The Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the stock was between 30 and 70.MACD, a trend-following momentum indicator, indicates a downward trend.The stock closed below its Bollinger band, indicating it may be oversold. Market Comparative Performance The company's share price is the same as the S&P 500 Index , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis The company's share price is the same as the Dow Jones Industrial Average , beats it on a 1-year basis, and lags it on a 5-year basis Per Group Comparative Performance The company's stock price performance year-to-date beats the peer average by 62.2% The company's stock price performance over the past 12 months beats the peer average by 25.6% This story was produced by the Kwhen Automated News Generator. For more articles like this, please visit us at finance.kwhen.com. Write to [email protected]. © 2020 Kwhen Inc.

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on BP (NYSE: BP ). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga. Whether this is an institution or just a wealthy individual, we don''t know. But when something this big happens with BP, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen. So how do we know what this whale just did? Today, Benzinga ''s options scanner spotted 14 uncommon options trades for BP. This isn''t normal. The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 64% bullish and 35%, bearish. Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 4 are puts, for a total amount of $198,832, and 10 are calls, for a total … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Many have slammed the oil giant for enjoying such hefty profits while families are seeing their energy, food and other bills surge. TUC general secretary Frances OGrady said: Theyre not calling it an energy crisis at BP, theyre calling it a bonanza. Its not fair to profit in this way from the misery families are [] COST OF LIVING CRISIS: Demands for windfall tax after BP unveiled annual profits of £5.6B | City & Business | Finance