re: #500 Floral Giraffe

WOW.
1 in 7?
That’s gonna hurt, a lot.

Big time. About $71 Billion so far. Almost every pension fund has shares.

Barack Obama has been accused of holding “his boot on the throat” of British pensioners after his attacks on BP were blamed for wiping billions off the company’s value

About $71 billion in lost share value in the UK.

BP’s position at the top of the London Stock Exchange and its previous reliability have made it a bedrock

of almost every pension fund in the country, meaning its value is crucial to millions of workers. The firm’s dividend payments, which amount to more than 7 billion a year, account for 1 in every 6 paid out in dividends to British pension pots.