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Citywire Investment News
- Forecast-beating BP delights dividend hunters
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:29:41 Z
Patience has proved to be a virture for BP shareholders with the oil giant raising its dividend for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the back of bumper profits.
FT.com - Financial Markets News
- Resource suitors move apart on the FTSE 100
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:43:47 GMT
Xstrata shares fall and Glencore?s rise after confirmation of merger terms while the wider market is in stasis, waiting for clarity from Athens
BBC Business News
- 'Gob smacking' UK costs in report
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:05 GMT
Estimates showing £10.9bn in unpaid tax was written off and medical negligence could cost £15.7bn are examined by the Commons spending watchdog.
- Glencore-Xstrata in $90bn merger
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:52:11 GMT
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata announces a $90bn merger with Glencore, the world's largest commodity trader.
- BP ups dividend as profits rise
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:36:12 GMT
BP announces sharply higher profits and increases its dividend to shareholders for the first time since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
BBC News
- 'Gob smacking' UK costs in report
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:05 GMT
Estimates showing £10.9bn in unpaid tax was written off and medical negligence could cost £15.7bn are examined by the Commons spending watchdog.
- Maldives leader quits amid unrest
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:54:23 GMT
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigns after weeks of demonstrations and a mutiny by some police officers.
- Glencore-Xstrata in $90bn merger
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:52:11 GMT
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata announces a $90bn merger with Glencore, the world's largest commodity trader.
- Russian envoy in crisis-hit Syria
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:48:45 GMT
Russia's foreign minister is greeted by pro-government crowds as he arrives in Syria to meet President Assad, amid rising violence in the country.
Citywire News
- BP raises dividend as profits jump
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:29:11 Z
Investors, who have waited patiently for a higher dividend since 2010?s Gulf of Mexico disaster, will receive a payment of eight cents per share.
FT.com - Equities
- Resource suitors move apart on the FTSE 100
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:43:47 GMT
Xstrata shares fall and Glencore?s rise after confirmation of merger terms while the wider market is in stasis, waiting for clarity from Athens
- Investors seek Bumi talks with Bakries
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:49:00 GMT
Shareholders want the Bakrie family and their partner Samin Tan to withdraw a motion calling for Nat Rothschild to be ousted from the company?s board
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