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Stockpickers: BP joins a list of market stalwarts that lost their way
Market stalwarts, with their well-established reputations for reliability and profitability, are not immune to losing their way. Any company, from a British blue-chip to a member of the Magnificent Seven, is capable of going astray — at least from the …