Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 bp.com/annualreport Building a stronger‚ safer BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 bp.com/annualreport Building a stronger‚ safer BP Front cover imagery The Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Ramform Sterling seismic vessel‚ which conducts seismic surveys for BP. Left image: the vessel working in the Ceduna Basin‚ Australia. Centre image: the vessel tows 12 streamers (pictured) behind it‚ each 8km long and equipped with hydrophones to pick up echoes from
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short-term shortages and price increases. (7) When Arab production was restored and the embargo lifted six months later‚ world crude oil prices had tripled from the 1973 average to about $12 per barrel‚ and OPEC was firmly in control of the world oil market. Industry Action/Reaction: • U.S. refiners made short-term changes in oil purchasing and began importing crude oil from any
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¡§Economic Theory Suggests that Markets are Efficient and Security Prices are Determined on the Basis of Fundamental Value¡¨ Market efficiency requires that security prices react immediately in an unbiased way to the receipt of new information (Robert Shiller S1998). In other words‚ an efficient capital market is one in which stock prices fully reflect available information. In addition‚ there are three conditions for market efficiency; information flows freely‚ market is composed of rational investors
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1 Bonds (3 points) A company aims to takeover one of its suppliers valued at 2 million Euros and is planning to fund the takeover by issuing three-year zero coupon bonds‚ each with face value C1000. After having their credit rating checked‚ executives have decided that they need to issue 2400 of these bonds to raise the 2 million needed to fund this takeover. What is the YTM of the bonds issued by the company? (a) 5.79% (b) 7.13% (c) 6.27% (d) 5.34% If the company’s credit rating changes due to
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dollar declined further to around €1 = $1.50‚ SMS would be losing money on its sales to America. He could try to raise the dollar price of his products to compensate for the fall in the value of the dollar‚ but he knew that was unlikely to work. The market for machine tools was very competitive‚ and manufacturers were constantly pressuring machine tool companies to lower prices‚ not raise them. Another small German supplier to U.S. automobile companies‚ Keiper‚ was faring somewhat better. In
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What is Corporate Finance? It�s all corporate finance. My unbiased view of the world Every decision made in a business has financial implications‚ and any decision that involves the use of money is a corporate financial decision. Defined broadly‚ everything that a business does fits under the rubric of corporate finance. It is‚ in fact‚ unfortunate that we even call the subject corporate finance‚ because it suggests to many observers a focus on how large corporations
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Problem Solving and Analysis. Problem A. Given the following balance sheet‚ income statement‚ historical ratios and industry averages‚ calculate the Cedric‚ Deniece‚ and Vhong‚ Inc. financial ratios for the most recent year. Analyze its overall financial situation for the most recent year. Analyze its overall financial situation from both a cross-sectional(전체를 대표하는 단면) and time-series viewpoint. Break your analysis into an evaluation of the firm’s liquidity‚ activity‚ debt‚ and profitability.
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An innovation in China’s e-finance market “Yu’E Bao” On the October‚ 1995‚ the Security First Network Bank (SFNB) is established‚ which is considered as the sign of the emergence of internet financial industry (e-finance). After that‚ it emerged and developed in many other countries. From the perspective of traditional financial industry‚ the e-finance is absolutely a “showstopper” which brings a lot of innovation pressure to traditional financial industry. The e-finance is continuously permeating
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Jönköping International Business School Jönköping University B eh avioral F i nance Investors’ Rationality Bachelor Thesis within Finance Authors: Bernéus‚ Hannes Sandberg‚ Carl Wahlbeck‚ David Tutor: Jönköping Österlund‚ Urban December‚ 2008 Acknowledgement We would like to thank our tutor Mr. Urban Österlund for his support and guidance. We are also grateful for all valuable comments and insights from our fellow students during seminar sessions. We would also like to present
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My almost first kiss In the second grade‚ I had my first boyfriend. It all started the first day of school when he complimented my pigtails and my Minnie Mouse overalls. That was the moment I knew he was‚ "the one". His name was William. William and I would have lunch together every single day. He would share his lunchables and bring an extra caprisun for me. During recess‚ he would push me on the swings and we would race into the sunset‚ or at least until recess was over. He called me every night
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