Underlying replacement cost profit, a common accounting measure to report profits in the oil industry which takes into account the fluctuations in the price of oil, came in at $2.809 billion. That was above a forecast supplied by the company of $2.7 billion.P, the West's no.4 oil company, reported weaker quarterly profits after its refining business swung to a loss, and said it would increase the accounting provision for the 2010 U.S. oil spill by $200 million.
Braces are simply a special type of brackets, which are also known as curly brackets. In common practice, they are used are in poetry and music, to mark repeats or joined lines. They are also used in mathematics, often in notation for denoting or defining a set.
Brackets are symbols used in pairs to group things together. Types of brackets include: parentheses or round brackets ( ) square brackets or box brackets [ ] braces or curly brackets { }. angle brackets < >. Example: (3 + 2) x (6 - 4) = 5 x 2 = 10.