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.
A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text. The matched pair is best described as opening and closing. Less formally, in a left-to-right context, it may be described as left and right, and in a right-to-left context, as right and left. Forms include round (also called parentheses), square, curly (also called braces), and angle brackets (also called chevrons); and various other pairs of symbols. In addition to refer