Shares in BP crash to 14-year low amid new fears
BP shares plunged to a 14-year low yesterday as the firm struggled to stave off market worries over a short-term funding crisis caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
As much as 5.5bn was wiped off the under-fire oil giant, with shares falling nine per cent at one point to below 300p – levels not seen since August 1996.
Despite assurances over measures to improve the capture of oil and progress on relief wells to kill the flow, BP said clean-up costs had risen to $2.35bn
(1.6bn).
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