LONDON -- This week, the retail clients of stockbroker TD Direct Investing had their eyes firmly on solid, high-yielding blue chips on sale at tempting prices.
Between the market's opening on Monday and today at noon, for instance, Vodafone
Next up is BP
While TNK-BP has delivered dividends and a sizable chunk of Russia's oil reserves to BP, the stake has also delivered ample headaches. At a stroke, the hope now is that those headaches are gone, with Rosneft buying BP's TNK-BP stake for $17.1 billion in cash and shares, and BP then using $4.8 billion of the cash to purchase a further 5.66% of Rosneft from the Russian government, taking its holding of Rosneft to 19.75%. On a forecast P/E of just seven, the hopefully less risky BP now offers a tempting forecast yield of 4.8%.
Last up: Tesco
With a rating of just nine times forecast earnings and a 4.9% forecast yield, a broker upgrade and "buy" rating ought to be superfluous to investors with an eye for a blue-chip bargain. But, as they say, every little bit helps.
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