Member Info for AllAtSea

I thought it was dishonest.

https://www.fool.co.uk/2023/01/11/down-20-will-aviva-shares-recover-in-2023/

60p is very modest given the recent performance. Something to pay heating bills, I suppose.

"Remember 'The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient' Warren Buffet"

It's tough knowing when to stop being patient, though.

However, I did make the right call moving half my GSK holding into HLN. Have roughly 50/50 split now.

Holding on is all I can do. My 20 odd stocks just drift up and down with the tide. Nothing seems likely to happen, until Putin falls down a steeper flight of stairs or stands too close to one of those Russian windows.

I am not surprised. The S. Koreans are the most tech savvy nation in the world and to get the seal of approval there is very significant IMO.

Bought a few more this morning. Got my average down a little.

"Technical products and services group Diploma delivered a "very strong" set of full-year results on Monday(21 nov), with both revenue and profits improving year-on-year."

https://www.investments.halifax.co.uk/research-centre/news-centre/article/?id=11463954&type=bsm

Was with equinit for a few years, never regretted getting out.

It's funny how we trust the Conservatives with the economy when they have comprehensively trashed it! Not for themselves, of course. I am sure they are fine, Cameron, Johnson, May, Truss and now the plutocratic Sunak.

Not a Labour supporter, me but really I don't believe they could have been worse. Frankly, I just wish I had emigrated straight after uni. Canada or New Zealand, probably.

Thinking a top up might be in order. Late tomorrow, perhaps.

Politics aside, my local store has become a joke. I used to like to do scan as you shop but they 'upgraded' it and now it is a disaster. In many certain parts of the store the signal is lost but you still might get a beep to make you think the item has registered - it has not. I check very carefully to ensure every item is accounted for.

Today, when I reached the till, all the customers had been selected for basket check, including me. There was only one staff member to do the checks!! I went over to scan my few items through self-scan then handed the scanner I'd used to a very grateful staff member. So much for making it easy for the customer.

Many of their shelves are simply empty, but they share that problems with most stores these days.

Driftking27, you ARE part of the Anti-Growth Coalition. I suspected it all along.

I am confident that our current government's plans to achieve rapid growth will be a lifesaver for OCDO. It is simply necessary to hold on and believe and we will get through what is clearly some short term turbulence in the wake of Truss and Kwarteng's visionary policies. Oh, and if you believe in fairies, now is the moment to clap your hands.

The supermarket experience is long gone IMO. Amazon has hardly got started on the UK market IMO. They can afford to watch and wait.

Thanks, Zebbo, I will try to keep up!

My point was more that GSK has for a long time been the poor relation to AZN and I did get out of AZN a while back to take profits and recently the price has fallen to a level at which I might get back in.

It's a bit off-putting when the Fool agrees and I am not so worried about the costs of lawsuits because, as you say, it is a natural hazard they must allow for.

Recently I reduced my GSK holding in favour of HLN because I see more upside to the latter.

GSK not the only ones in trouble:

"Pharmaceutical companies including AstraZeneca could face a $1 billion settlement over US lawsuits involving an old blockbuster stomach acid drug.

AstraZeneca is a defendant in litigation concerning proton-pump inhibitors such as Nexium, which claimants say is responsible for kidney injury."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/astrazeneca-faces-hit-from-legal-claims-xlc2568rk?shareToken=66f9825d7c17332b5fff9ef9cf87f4c7

The Fool, today, rated AZN a 'buy'.

Monday, I sold one third of my GSK holding and bought HLN with the proceeds. Just to balance things up a bit..
Seems to be working so far.

I am where I am, sadly. Taking some comfort from rather old news here:
https://www.investments.halifax.co.uk/research-centre/news-centre/article/?id=10733212&type=bsm
and here:
https://www.investments.halifax.co.uk/research-centre/news-centre/article/?id=10534260&type=bsm

Perhaps repeating the offending terms wasn’t a great idea? You can’t edit posts on here.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/994024/aviva-m-g-and-other-blue-chip-life-insurers-can-withstand-short-term-shocks-says-analyst-994024.html