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As long as its not those numpties, Paul Johnson or Lenigas. 'London Based' I think is a bit of a curve ball, why even mention it ?

Yep, ditto that ! I think Heddle is going to exit with a grandiose finaleeeeeeeeee !!!!!

Tomorrow the monster of all RNS's me thinks !

Hargreaves Landsdown will also bid 32.50 for 5m shares !

What is the trade for us shareholders going forward, well we are led to believe that Marshal Wace are still short of 0.6% of ITV (24million shares give or take) and at some point they will look to close out this trade and by my reckoning it will be very soon, say within the next couple of weeks.

On this basis I have some funds ready to apply when GS and their mates take down the stock so Marshal Wace can close out their short position before the bid !

Tomorrow morning could be the start of a very interesting journey for ITV for the next few weeks!!

So, its all over the weekend press that ITV is in the hunt for a new Chairman to replace Sir Peter Bazalgette, first reported by Sky business news on Friday afternoon. What do you mean you didn't see all the news articles , don't tell me you missed them all, surely not ??

Well quelle surprise, there wasn't a single article written about ITV's hunt for a new chairman (or chairwoman !) over the weekend, not even in the Sunday times whom couldn't say a bad word about ITV last weekend even waxing lyrical about Britbox after all this time despite sla**ing it off for the last few years . And that made front page news no less !!!!

Let me just remind everyone what the Times had to say about Sir Peter's appointment back in 2016, ok you will need to subscribe for the full article but the headline alone tells you what the Times thought about his appointment back then :-

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bazalgette-to-become-itv-chairman-frprfq6g3

Okay, so no news in the Times or anywhere this weekend, doesn't that strike you as bizarre ? Has GS really got such a strong foothold in this company that they are now calling the shots above the management at ITV, to such an extent now, that they can control what's in and what's out of the business headlines regarding ITV ?? Just look at how Google and Facebook are now controlling the USA, presidents now and in the future don't have a chance unless they collude with these big media empires. Is it that ITV are just as powerless now??

So we are led to believe Sir Peter's tenure at ITV is up after 2022 and we also know that the company is agressively moving into the digital market place, just look at the jobs advertised within the company on the ITV website, each job begins with the description :-

'We will be a digitally led entertainment and media company that creates and brings brilliant content to audiences, wherever, whenever and however they choose....'

Will GS now look to employ 'one of their own' to run the company , someone from the USA who has vast media contacts, to me it now looks more than certain.

With regards to the share price, we all know that the last thing GS want right now is a raft of buying interest, so don't expect the stock to go shooting up on bid spec, GS will make sure to dampen down any huge upward surges.

Remember last Monday, the stock was marked up by 4p to 113p before 10:30am only to drift down and by mid-week was touching 106p and then closed the week at 109p, more or less unchanged on the week even after those articles in the Times newspaper !!

GS made money on their 'short' book, as a result of that interim movement and will always make money from the movement in ITV shares, regardless of the stock being up or down (they control the order book themselves). They will curtail any big upsurges in the stock price until they are in control of a bid situation for ITV.

Just looking at the ITV website and most of the job offers advertised from the start of the year have a closing date for applications by Monday 18th January 2021.

We all know that ITV want to step up their move into the Digital Marketplace, take a look at this job vacancy and the potential partners for ITV :-

https://itvjobs.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/digital-partnerships-controller-itv-creative-partnerships-147

And no RNS this afternoon on the back of the news, was this by design ahead of the weekend ??

Who really is control of ITV , can't be long now until we find out !

You lot can argue amongst yourselves but for the real investors this could be a defining moment for ITV :-

https://news.sky.com/story/itv-picks-firm-to-screen-successors-to-chairman-bazalgette-12188651

Sorry, should have said just click on the 'download document' !

Yep nice one, all looking good for an excellent 2021. Here's the official notice :-

https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/ann-pilbara-gold-completion-of-additional-licence-acquisition.5857207/

Just to add, that mine Mponeng in South Africa was on one of the Cable TV channels last week and they are currently digging down further, to depths of around 4500m. Because guess what, they are running out of Gold deposits !!!

Cheers for the links Floater, nice one mate.

As its lunchtime and whilst we wait for bid for Greatland Gold before Gervaise departs next month, I thought I would post this link again with regards to Berenberks forecast for Gold last year.

We all know they're playing games with the likes of Goldman Sucs et al to hoover up as much stock as possible before the bid but this one will make you laugh :-

https://www.sharesmagazine.co.uk/article/dont-expect-the-gold-price-to-keep-soaring-in-2020

Front running ahead of a Tuesday RNS ??

Sounds good to me !

:)

Morning team, don't know what the order book looks like but HL are bid only this morning in size !!

Bamps, yes we have this discussion many times but that was before Gervaise decided to walk (or was he pushed ?). In this economic environment and Gold just in the infancy of its bull run, Newcrest can negotiate finance at next to nothing currently and with inflation looking to rear its head this year as well, to coin a well used phrase on here for Newcrest its all Ducks, ducks ducks !!

Christophe B, you make some valid points there as did Speedy this morning. Its only my thoughts but 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of when Nixon removed the US dollar from the Gold standard back in 1971. The Dollar is f****d as we all know and talk of a new Bretton Woods is on the cards for this year, if the Dollar is pegged back to the price of Gold, then Gold has to be re-valued as it was back during the Bretton Woods agreement. Talk of anything from 20%-50% is not out of the question.

Nice post there Speedy, we've also got another round of financial stimulus in the US after Biden's inauguration and talk is of around $7trillion !!! Imagine the price of Gold & Bitcoin after that !!!

But with Greatland, I always make an exception !!

How many times have we've seen weeks of slow gradual declines followed by a Blue Monday and a great week thereafter ?

RNS this week me thinks, maybe tomorrow morning ??

Hi Rock, sadly this will be the norm until some corporate action takes place. As i have been saying on here since the late Summer , I strongly believe that GS and their mates hold well over 50% of ITV and with a further 30% odd distributed amongst the 20 largest shareholders, there is only a comparatively small amount of shares left in other hands. And as no-one is selling GS and co. are just churning stock through the order book everyday. You may have already seen the 3-5% swings in the stock on a daily basis and this will be the norm going forward.

Even today, there's another RNS with regards to GS having allegedly reduced their holding in ITV by 0.58% but now take a look at this, under the heading ownership, click on Major and institutions. It will all become clear :-

https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/xlon/itv/ownership