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BP posts $485m Q1 loss

(ShareCast News) - The weak oil price pushed exploration and refining giant BP to a $485m first quarter replacement cost loss, compared with a profit $2.1bn profit in the same period last year. Underlying replacement cost profit was $532m for the quarter, compared with $2.57bn a year ago and well ab

BUZZ-BP: Wide Q1 beat boosts stock

** BP's shares up 2.3 pct, near top of the FTSE 100, after posting Q1 replacement cost profit of $532 mln, vs analyst expectations of $140 mln loss ** Downstream unit's $1.8 bln profit offsets $747 mln upstream loss ** Co also says 2016 capex will be around $17 bln, around lower end o

UPDATE 1-BP eyes more spending cuts after 80 pct profit drop

* BP Q1 profits beat analysts' expectations * British firms says can cut capex to $15 bln * BP CEO sees market rebalancing at end of 2016 (Adds details, recasts) By Ron Bousso and Karolin Schaps LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - BP said on Tuesday it could cut capital spendin

BP first quarter earnings fall of 80 pct, beat analyst estimates

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - British oil major BP on Tuesday reported an 80 percent year on year fall in core earnings for the first quarter, when oil prices touched a near 13-year low, but the result was better than analysts had expected. BP's quarterly underlying replacement cost profit,

TOP NEWS: BP Holds Dividend As It Swings To Loss In First Quarter

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Resource Stocks Hit FTSE 100 While Fed, BoJ Loom

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Resource Stocks Drag FTSE As Brent Rally Stalls

WINNERS & LOSERS SUMMARY: St Ives Dives After Profit Warning

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Mixed Trade As Miners And Drillers Drag FTSE 100

REPEAT-Disgruntled investors flex vote muscle on UK executive pay

(Repeats story from Friday) * HSBC forced to rethink future executive payouts * Follows revolts at BP, others on 2015 payouts * Bulk of pay policies up for fresh vote by 2017 By Sinead Cruise and Simon Jessop LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Change the way you pay or ris

CORRECTED-Disgruntled investors flex vote muscle on UK executive pay

(Corrects title of Stephan Costa in paragraph 17) * HSBC forced to rethink future executive payouts * Follows revolts at BP, others on 2015 payouts * Bulk of pay policies up for fresh vote by 2017 By Sinead Cruise and Simon Jessop LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Change

CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-UPDATE 1-Russia's Rosneft recommends 2015 dividend of 11.75 rbls per share

MOSCOW, April 22 (Reuters) - Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil producer, said on Friday its board had recommended paying a dividend of 11.75 roubles per share on its profits last year, up from the 8.21 roubles paid for 2014. The dividend payout will total 124.5 billion roubles ($1.87 billion),

REFILE-UK GAS-Prices surge on oil rally, cold weather and supply disruptions

(Fixes typographical error in paragraph 5) * Gas demand 29 percent above normal * Four LNG tankers to arrive over next 10 days April 22 (Reuters) - British gas prices rose on Friday afternoon, reversing earlier losses as oil prices rallied on hopes a global supply glut may be ea

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Miners And Oil Stocks Weigh On FTSE 100

China's CNPC says interested in Rosneft's privatisation

MOSCOW, April 21 (Reuters) - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) is interested in privatisation of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft, CNPC's first vice president Wang Zhongcai told reporters on Thursday in Moscow. Russia plans to sell 19.5 percent in the world's top listed oil producer