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"The shackles are off: Unilever goes for growth after UK move
Politically sensitive unification will create a nimbler player in mergers and acquisitions"
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"Jope highlighted Unilever's bias towards emerging markets: “Two-thirds of global growth in the next 10 years will come from 10 markets, and we have a strong presence in all of them. We feel like the world is coming towards our business.”

https://www.ft.com/content/66cc51f4-1ec3-4299-a7a7-ba152917947b

Would I be right in thinking you are a few hours to the west of my UK timezone? Or are you night owls?

What exactly is your perspective on this British company?

Also bought a few ULVR yesterday. I've no doubt plenty of companies are going to experience rising input costs going forward, not just ULVR.

I am prepared to hold both GSK and ULVR in the face of adversity and to hell with the shorters.

Added at 4070 .

Apologies for double post it kinda went missing for a bit first time around! The starred out bit is four letters starting 'P'. Don't ask me why it has to be starred out.

"The 411
To get a handle on the situation, we talked to cosmetic chemist and NewBeauty Brain Trust member Ginger King who shed some light on DMDM. “DMDM Hydantoin is known as formaldehyde donor which can release formaldehyde, thus it is used for preservation to kill bugs,” she explains.

While formaldehyde-releasing preservatives help prevent microbes from growing in water-based products, the class action lawsuit is spreading awareness on how they affect consumers at large and how they’ve been linked to certain skin reactions. “Long-term use may cause contact allergy as documented in some research,” adds King. “As far as hair loss, if there is allergic action on scalp, it potentially can get people to scratch the head and induce breakage. However, this is only a hypothesis and it’s yet to be proven if the people who experienced hair loss had also experienced itchy scalp symptoms to start with.”"

https://www.newbeauty.com/tresemme-lawsuit-hair-loss/

And..

"Does TRESemme Shampoo Cause Hair Fall?
It absolutely does! The massive outrage on social media is a big testament to that. Unilever has also been sued recently because of the damage this shampoo has caused to people. The company hasn’t come up with any retaliating answer, but this is the shampoo you can do anything with but put-on hair. Never do that. Throw the bottles out, if you own them!"

https://dnd.com.pk/everything-about-tresemme-other-shampoos-causing-hair-loss/209665

(The Dispatch News Desk (DND) is an international award-winning News Agency, accredited and certified by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of ****stan for distributing news in Russian, English, and Urdu languages.)

"The 411
To get a handle on the situation, we talked to cosmetic chemist and NewBeauty Brain Trust member Ginger King who shed some light on DMDM. “DMDM Hydantoin is known as formaldehyde donor which can release formaldehyde, thus it is used for preservation to kill bugs,” she explains.

While formaldehyde-releasing preservatives help prevent microbes from growing in water-based products, the class action lawsuit is spreading awareness on how they affect consumers at large and how they’ve been linked to certain skin reactions. “Long-term use may cause contact allergy as documented in some research,” adds King. “As far as hair loss, if there is allergic action on scalp, it potentially can get people to scratch the head and induce breakage. However, this is only a hypothesis and it’s yet to be proven if the people who experienced hair loss had also experienced itchy scalp symptoms to start with.”"

https://www.newbeauty.com/tresemme-lawsuit-hair-loss/

And..

"Does TRESemme Shampoo Cause Hair Fall?
It absolutely does! The massive outrage on social media is a big testament to that. Unilever has also been sued recently because of the damage this shampoo has caused to people. The company hasn’t come up with any retaliating answer, but this is the shampoo you can do anything with but put-on hair. Never do that. Throw the bottles out, if you own them!"

https://dnd.com.pk/everything-about-tresemme-other-shampoos-causing-hair-loss/209665

(The Dispatch News Desk (DND) is an international award-winning News Agency, accredited and certified by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of ****stan for distributing news in Russian, English, and Urdu languages.)

Shame his balls were where his brain should have been ;-)

Was hoping to buy more today but it's gone back above my price limit..

Memo to self: Do NOT press that sell button on impulse, that's what they want you to do.

Jep, I wasn't actually serious. Elon Musk is way beyond my pay grade. I know my place and isn't in space.

"unreal to think the harrisholes will bag min £4bn on the way down and then on the way up again..... Think we need the Reddit boys."

Oh, nobody shorts GSK, hadn't you noticed?

Yes, when IS Emma going to start doing practical stuff like sending people to Mars?

However, generally reviews for AO. customer service are good, better than rivals, Currys. I only ever bought a freezer from AO, only retailer who had one when the pandemic started and all good. Obviously a single customer experience is nothing at all to go on.

My purchase of AO. stock is purely for growth and I have done well with other stocks like BME, OCDO and NXT. So I shall hold on to AO. and see how it goes.

Doubled my holding yesterday and got the average cost down. Could be the falling knife but I can find nothing to suggest that there is a significant problem.

Got in at 177 somehow. Some broker being generous LOL

"Why are there consistently more but than sell trades then? This is market maker skulduggery"

Every share bought must have had a seller. Unlike fiat money, real shares are in finite supply. Only short sellers have imaginary shares!

Messed it up on this one. Luckily not on a big scale. But a loss isn't a loss until you sell.. I'll be holding on.

Now got 16 stocks, when some go up, others go down and vice versa.

Got out on 19 Jan at 14.04 net. On 14 Jan 14.42 isn't far fetched..

No way I'll be back at this level. The 1400s were optimism kicking in.

The director sale doesn't trouble me. The rich are always short of money. It's when the funds sell I worry more.

Onward growth? Normalised? What does 'normalised' mean? Brexit has just started, the fear of the virus will only be partly alleviated, the economy has been hit hard by both. E-commerce is here to stay but BME can still attract customers on a shrinking high street. That can't do them any harm.

"Berenberg betting on Glaxo turnaround
Berenberg is expecting positive updates from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) that will encourage investors to return to the pharma giant’s recovery story with more enthusiasm.

Analyst Kerry Holford reiterated her ‘buy’ recommendation but reduced the target price from £18.00 to £17.20 on the stock, which closed up 0.3%, or 4.8p, at £14.10 yesterday. "

https://citywire.co.uk/funds-insider/news/the-expert-view-jd-sports-conduit-and-glaxosmithkline/a1455688