Making the link between share price & external environment - BP

Here’s a great resource to put up on the IWB if you’d like to explain how the share price of a quoted company can be influenced by factors specific to the business.  The Guardian has produced this excellent interactive timeline which plots the BP share price movement during 2010 against each major development in the Deepwater Horizon oilspill.  The change in market and investor sentiment with each twist and turn of the Deepwater story is fascinating.

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