Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
wyndrum, ultimately, decisions about quality and pricing are down to the company that owns the brands and boohoo owns all the brands involved, unlike Waitrose v Tesco or Rolex v knock-off. It's not even hypothetical about companies moving their brands to different positions on quality and price, M&S is nothing like quality it used to be, similarly Mercedes after Chrysler involvement. There is no registered benchmark for a given level of quality (subjective anyway) a brand must maintain in perpetuity.
The primary implications for boohoo getting it wrong
on the branding, quality and price mix longer term would be destruction of shareholder value through loss of existing customers and failure to attract new ones which would naturally occur. However the worst that could happen to any individual customer would be the need to return the item for refund that made them think 'This is not what I expect from xxxxxx brand' and then shop elsewhere.
That is the point I take issue with the BBC story, this IS valid consumer news, but does NOT merit top billing on business news, disingenuously giving it equal ranking with the 'slavery' issues.
I suppose
11:13, 'different pricing and now this' . I would say 'this' is part of 'different pricing' as the the dress was at different prices, as were the coats. Perhaps you had an idea there were three things but 'Auditor resigns' slipped your mind?
Whilst boohoo obviously needs to get a grip of the brand identities and pricing, the worst that can happen to any online customer dissatisfied with their goods is the slight inconvenience of having to return the item. Those affected by the slavery issue may have comments to make about the relative merits of the issues that seem to be getting equal prominence thanks to the BBC and many eager to 'gold plate' the issue.
Magnum.PI. Could work the other way, reinforce the concept of value from those who are buying at the cheap end of the range, thinking others are paying more.
You can clearly see the shared parts across the VW group range in current models nowadays. Historically a Skoda might have had the previous model Golf dash and the ubiquitous EA888 engine in the previous power output but they don't seem bothered about that now which is quite surprising when they were emerging from dieselgate and the experiments with monkeys being piped exhaust fumes to breathe.
I sometimes have a look at the BBC 'red button' news items, they are running this latest story as the top item on the 'business news' section - completely disproportionate.
Meanwhile on the 'local news' page for York and North Yorkshire, three of the four items relate to what used to be known as Cleveland, totally removed from York and its surroundings, and the other is about a woman from Leeds - in WEST Yorkshire.
And there is also another story still showing predicting a late surge of traffic on Good Friday!
SaintAnthony, do you not wonder how you supposition of more sells than buys over a week, due to LTHs derisking, actually works in practice?
Are you saying MMs have taken this opportunity to 'stock up' on shares, without a full complement of willing buyers, at a price stalwarts think is a bit toppy?
Personally, I'd always take the view that MMs do just that, make a market, and for that to happen over a fair period of time (rather than, say, a given hour in the trading day) there must be equilibrium between sellers and buyers. Pretty basic analogy of markets and business in general and buys and sells are of course never disclosed as such, only in relation to the published mid price at the time.
Despite filtering all I'm seeing is yaf4e. Any connection to a white VW Touran, YAF 4E, with telephone number mileage according to .gov motc site I wonder? The commentary is more taxi driver than financial advisor that's for sure.
07:27 Shockingly bad advice! Bed and breakfasting was knocked on the head many years ago, hence the 30 day rule. Also there is a need to consider how to work out gains or losses on a 'pooled' holding (when a holding is added to or decreased rather than being bought and then sold in its entirety. Also there is separate consideration of 'same day' trades.
On the day we are remembering 125000+ covid deaths, THREE posts from millionaire investor PP1 whining about who comes up despite being filtered.
Time to add you to my list, and I don't see any posts from those filtered, so it can't be difficult to choose a viewing format that works!
From what has been stated in the RNS I would expect cash transactions for the payment of the drilling invoice and then the purchase of the shares. Yes, you could say that amounts to effectively paying for the drilling in shares, however if there was no actual cash payment then the RNS is misleading which would be unacceptable. It already seems sailing pretty close to the wind without added disingenuity!
19:54, is ADVFN considered to be some sort of gold standard? If you don't see the point I'm making fair enough (Of course it's perfectly easy to do it) but I'd lose interest if posts that more often contain figures and prices were to have the facility to show different numbers if revisited at a later date. It's bad enough now with clowns like that NewTraderLey guy posting '3p by Friday' then when it gets to Friday 'I see this going to .85p' and that's in plain sight!
An edit function on a financial bulletin board? Yes, I'm familiar with the ability to correct typos and re-phrase my musings on my local 'paper' comments which has such a function but surely you can see the whole new level of shenanigans that would be opened up if it was available here!
NewTraderLey. The answer depends on why you are asking. Are you concerned about the tax implications (for example if the shares are in a trading account and you have already used your capital gains allowance for the year)? For tax purposes, the remaining shares from your original purchase will always have the same cost price as the ones you sold. You would obviously need to use that to calculate if there is any tax due, and how much, at the point you sell the remainder at some future date.
That said, there are ways of looking at your holding as others have said, once you have recouped your purchase cost the remaining shares are a 'free ride' meaning you can't come out of the original purchase with a loss.
https://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/en/terms/d/dry_hole
I remember posting this link last time around. Schlumberger expect commercial oil or it's a duster / dry hole according to them.
Those late trades look a complete mess, loads of contras, that massive one of 43 million ends in 820, 825. A couple of 8mills end in the same odd numbers and are reversed, not to mention the 25mills that are reversed. As they are late reported they are showing as buys against the close - but doesn't mean they were buys when they were worked!