Shell announces the second quarter 2008 earnings recently. A second quarter 2008 dividend has been announced of $0.40 per share, an increase of 11% over the US dollar dividend for the same period in 2007. The earning of the second quarter of 2008 was $ 11,556 million or 33% higher than in the same quarter a year agao.

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