Still waiting for BP, but Kingfisher dividend has come through, which had today as the payment date. Maybe taking a bit longer for the BP dividends.
Just received the dividend
got my 87p - can retire early now
Yeah! Hot weather where you are? You can buy this for yourself or some one special in your life. But inflation may have taken its toll and driven the price up, then you might have to wait for the next dividend too.
They reported some very impressive numbers, record profits, perhaps unsurprisingly given the commodity prices. Always a bit weird when a business makes what some consider an âexcessive profitâ and feels the wrath of the politicians and general public. Is it a uniquely British attitude I wonder? Iâm not sure if your Chevrons and Exxon etc face such a backlash in the States, maybe they do.
I think itâs a mix of people being legitimately worried and adding on the media who manipulate the story and provide half truths the about things. Many people donât know the full picture or what their options are as a result. Half the time theyâre just being told their bill is going to be âwell over ÂŁ3kâ or going up by 70% but arenât being given any more info.
This kind of stuff just doesnât quite sit right with me. Are they allowed to make money? How much exactly? Would we rather a British company with thousands of employees do badly?
I swear I havenât read that independent article before my previous post but Iâm amazed how accurate my post was
The government has been urged to raid massive profits at oil giants such as BP to provide additional help for families struggling to heat their homes â with average energy bills set to soar past ÂŁ3,000 a year.
And of course the article doesnât includes any details on what over ÂŁ3k actually means, or what households can do
These people donât to realise that BP donât set the price of Oil and donât have much control over how much they make from it. And that the vast majority those profits arenât coming from petrol station forecourts
Also that they can join in and own part of BP for as little as four quid
You do realise the like of the independent are all about causing controversy and riling up people like you. You click on their article, get annoyed, share it with other people. There is a fight in the comments of the article between team red and team blue and the independent is the one âlaughing all the way to the bankâ Itâs very simple just ignore trash media designed for clicks.
BPâs $3.5bn buyback as profits soar
Anyone else waiting for the BP dividend? Any idea when payout is likely to be?
Haha, spoke too soon, just got mine
Sky news have been highlighting hydrogen this weekend sounding interestingly good. I may buy some shares on Hydrogenone as well as BP, and wait and see.
Anyone else thinking that long term yesterdays energy news just showed this company and stock has an expiry date now ? Nuclear fusion is one of the holy grails and I imagine there will now be very very rapid development towards it given itâs potentially limitless and far cleaner than anything else.
When I was at school the physics teacher went on about nuclear fusion and how is was 15 to 20 years away with limitless cheap energy for all.
I am now in my 50s and it still seems to be 15 20 years away who knows if it will ever be a working reality.
That was the announcement yesterday , US scientists made cold fusion work. A similar equivalent is that once nuclear power was made to work it took less than 20 years to create the first nuclear power station.