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With a dividend of 19.54p being paid out on 22 May, according to Morningstar.co.uk, I see this as a short term safe haven. Two thirds of the annual dividend paid out then means investing now will ensure you'll have a top up of cash then if you're running out of money by the end of May.
Not panic selling as such. More no news and investors trickle away, the SP drops further and further. When the good news eventually comes it rises back up to just where it is now. That's why news needs to be fed out as soon as possible. To stop that trickle down of the SP.
Any significant oil would surely have been RNSed. The company needs as much positive news as it can get right now. They weren't the main targets but significant oil would have been good and therefore would have been RNSed. There's no benefit in waiting in the current climate.