{"id":13925,"date":"2025-06-25T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13925\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:14:12","slug":"bp-shares-jump-7-on-report-it-is-in-early-stage-talks-to-be-acquired-by-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13925\/","title":{"rendered":"BP shares jump 7% on report it is in early-stage talks to be acquired by Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BP logo is displayed outside a petrol station that also offers electric vehicle recharging, on Feb. 27, 2025, in Somerset, England.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BP<\/a> shares jumped Wednesday on a report that the oil major is in early-stage talks to be acquired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SHEL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shell<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>People familiar with the matter told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/shell-in-early-talks-to-acquire-rival-bp-2233591a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that talks between BP and Shell are active but a deal is far from certain. The talks are progressing slowly, one person told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>BP shares were last up about 7%. The British oil major is currently valued at nearly $85 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BP logo is displayed outside a petrol station that also offers electric vehicle recharging, on Feb. 27,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14412,9167,64,81,3345,14411,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-13925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bp-plc","9":"tag-breaking-news-business","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-oil-and-gas","13":"tag-shell-plc","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114744895958426387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}