{"id":1457,"date":"2008-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/bp-profits-soar-to-6-4bn\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:00:00","slug":"bp-profits-soar-to-6-4bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2008\/10\/bp-profits-soar-to-6-4bn\/","title":{"rendered":"BP PROFITS SOAR TO ?6.4BN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OIL giant BP today [Oct\/28] announced a whopping &pound;6.4bn third-quarter profits as the firm cashed in on record high prices. <\/p>\n<p>The company&rsquo;s huge haul for the July-September period is a huge 148 per cent above the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Its profits came as crude oil prices hit a new peak above 147 US dollars a barrel in mid-July.<\/p>\n<p>They are likely to spark fresh protests from motorists and businesses who have felt the pain at the petrol pump this year.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices have since fallen by more than half their July peak to just above 60 dollars a barrel as global recession fears mount.<\/p>\n<p>BP chief executive Tony Hayward said: &ldquo;Although it has since fallen away sharply, the high oil price of the third quarter obviously helped our absolute result.&rdquo;<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpress.org\/link.cfm?http:\/\/www.dailyexpress.co.uk\/posts\/view\/68270\" ><br \/>GO TO ORIGINAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OIL giant BP today [Oct\/28] announced a whopping &pound;6.4bn third-quarter profits as the firm cashed in on record high prices. The company&rsquo;s huge haul for the July-September period is a huge 148 per cent above the same period last year. Its profits came as crude oil prices hit a new peak above 147 US dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}