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" Unloved London stock market "
It has always been a ploy to put as many of the decent company shares into the hands of foreigners, as a result of getting UK pension funds to dump the shares
Dont be fooled by it all..... when the share prices recover it will be interesting to see how many American and European funds are now the shareholders
Happened with Rolls Royce ... when the share price hit the floor it was American funds that bought many of them and now Rolls Royce is now majority owned by American shareholders
Cheers BigTimeBilly for sharing link.
Good little 15mins watch, and pretty spot on what PJ was saying - esp. regarding how many opportunities BT have missed.
Let’s hope Alison can do a better job than PJ for the firms shareprice as well as delivering the BAU objectives.
GLA.
I thought he spoke well, and the future does looks well if they keep to the plan that he has put in place.
Came across well but sounds like we still have a way to go . Keeping to the plan might just reward us share holders
Phillip Jansen interview https://youtu.be/aImEqbUl2sM?si=mcD4yEPHiDBYineH
“Human”
The lunacy of Brexit will continue to have a negative impact.
First instance, the same lunacy provides us with people in power who shouldn’t be.
Second instance, reduction in prosperity will impact all kinds of business, drive costs up, reduce work forces & make UK less likely to see investment, impact consumer spend.
UK is close to becoming a country on the “attacks” him rights, rather than “protects”. This is not good for business outside NK, Russia or China.
Nicely put AP
Pay increase from April has already been negotiated and agreed as part of last years late negotiations. I believe it’s 4% or could be 4.6%.
It will therefore depend on what inflation is at that time.
Overtime had already been stopped in 23/24 financial year for the first half, creeping back in to use since start of Q3.
Overtime is something the business will utilise more not less, as they look to made good on 55,000 internal and external staff. I imagine this will reduce as we hit targets, not before.
Coronation , as a fully paid up CWU rep. I can guarantee you , your silly naive plan , aint going to happen.
Your (and mine as well) beloved Divi will go first , trust me.
Coronation if you are on the BT pay negotiation team , you will be toast, with that attitude
You take the pain , not us people that create the wealth, you lazy sloth
A lot of our collective BT prospects to the path to recovery are in the hands of Chancellor Hunt and what he can do with his little bit of manoeuvring with tax allowances Corperate and Personal.
BT is a very generous employer and hopefully the Unions will realise they must not kill this Golden Goose. With NI reductions already creating nearly a 2% pay rise any future tax handback should be seen as an opportunity to ask for a lower than inflation pay demand.
Cutting excessive overtime rates or eliminating overtime working could help BT become more solvent too.
The very expensive investment in fibre should soon start to pay back as long as OFCOM keeps its promise to allow us a fair return on this investment.
Thoughts please.
Coral.
Let’s hope those same money managers follow through and put their money where their mouths are (and particularly in British owned telecoms stocks).
Here’s Hoping.
Telegraph Article. Britain’s stock market is tipped to outperform US and EU benchmarks this year as money managers across the City predict a bounceback for the unloved assets.
British equities will deliver 9pc returns over 2024, Goldman Sachs has predicted, beating projected returns from the S&P 500, leading eurozone markets and Japanese stocks.
Over the next five years the Wall Street bank expects average annual returns of 6pc from UK stocks, which is among the highest returns of all asset classes looked at.
It would represent a significant turnaround for Britain’s stock market, which has traded at a steep discount to rivals in recent years.
Brexit, political instability, pension funds turning their backs on the stock market and Britain’s slow recovery from the economic blow of the pandemic have all been blamed.……….
I read that this morning PC, seems most people ignore it, but it looks to be a progressive worsening of business conditions and has to be worth taking note of.
About time. Now you’ve finally filtered Rodney hopefully you’ll stop banging on about him as you keep writing about him has spoilt this bb.
"47,000 businesses near collapse in the UK at the start of 2024."
"539,900 UK businesses are now in ‘significant’ financial distress, 12.9% higher than Q3 2023 and 5.6% higher yoy "
https://www.begbies-traynorgroup.com/news/firm-news/more-than-47000-uk-businesses-start-2024-on-the-edge-of-collapse-after-critical-financial-distress-jumps-over-25-again
Ok Pete. Moving on
First post. So now we’ve got people setting up accounts just to comment on ‘filtered’ person. Anything else to say G121?
I take it that people don’t come on to this marketing site and think they have to read the masses of advertising and mundane content surrounding the small area that’s left free for comments? Actually, it’s just as easy to skip past the post’s you don’t like and yes unlike the adverts you can hide them. But perhaps some people don’t do that because in reality they come here because it’s a safe place to throw stones and put others down.
Oh we noticed. He’s spoiled the bb.
The people who post relevant bt information have not been posting lately. If they have I was missing their posts. I’m going to keep him filtered from now on, as he’s constantly here writing the same stuff, it’s not normal, or fair. It’s just selfish.
Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but 41 of the last 100 posts have come from the same "filtered" person. Is he going for world domination ? Just saying...
I would imagine ‘Saudis’ will have approached Drahi assuming he’s under pressure and perceiving an opportunity for a good return in the medium to long term. I don’t think it makes a bid anymore likely in the short term and possibly the likelihood of a bid being waved through by HMG even less likely.
Not Shakespeare, but Drahi. Its past the witching hour of Nov 24th, the genie is out of his bottle. Back in September, FT Lex article quoted analyst who believed that Drahi could takeover BT as leveraged buyout at 170. Since then, Saudi's have approached Drahi about his stake but no more has been heard. Any thoughts on what next ?
No FT. …….
I’ve filtered him. It’s just the same posts every day. Sometimes he rewords a little .
No need for apologies Rodney. I’ve always considered being the subject of your attempts at abuse to be something of a ‘badge of honour’.
On a different note, I have to confess that I now fear you’ve completely outsmarted me, and that I’ve been foolishly spoofed by you when it comes to your pre-occupation with the CWU.
Personally, when it comes to BT’s strategy I see the CWU as somewhat impotent and largely insignificant, essentially an organisation desperate to find relevance as a means retain members and funding. However, in commenting on them here, not only do you do repeatedly credit them with both considerable power and influence, in doing so you do an outstanding job of maintaining awareness of them whilst raising their profile to new heights. Given this, I think the honourable thing for you to do is to now come clean and be completely transparent in your motivations. Yes, it’s time for you to reveal that in reality you are here as a CWU recruitment officer.