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UFO means something else, doesn't it?!....a bit unfortunate!

"i just bought BIRG 5,847 under 5euros is a serious bargain "
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SiverHorse, I presume you mean BIRG at 4.847 Euro?
Bank of Ireland isn't on my radar. I wish you luck.

"And is the December 0.15%+ expected BofE Base Rate increase already baked into the falling share price?"
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If it is 'baked in' but doesn't happen what would happen?
I thought 'generally' bank shares benefit from an increase....does the falling BARC SP suggest 'the market' isn't expecting a rise in base rate?
It's like juggling cats at the moment!

"Is ‘PeriTrem’ a possibility or not ?"
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Very PERT!! This tie-up has been suggested before. Perhaps this sort of deal is closer now. I don't know
.....anything!

" Re: green washing: A risky game when there' s lots of scrutiny."
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I'm not sure it is necessarily'risky'.....what would be the risks by their dragging their feet (apart from missing investment opportunities as early adopters). The O&G management might not even think it is 'green washing' but the perception by the green lobby might be they aren't moving with sufficient pace or with enough backing from senior management. I suppose it would be like the fire brigade turning up to your burning house with a single red fire extinguisher...at least they turned up, but perhaps they aren't really taking it seriuously. It could be a matter of priority, some see it as No.1 on the 'To Do' list, others see it further down the list...I think we can all hopefully agree that it should be on the list somewhere!! (which is progress from only a few years ago).

If you've got a spare Christmas tree they need one for Trafalgar square....the one from Norway this year is a bit shabby. Are they trying to tell us something!!
A free tree bonanza in Wales apparently...I'm not sure if that is enough incentive to move there!!

"Got them conkers in the ground yet BE? "
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One of the joys of my childhood.....chucking big lumps of wood up into conker trees to knock off the spikey conkers. Every throw was gonna deliver a world breaking specimen...they hardly ever did. Kept us fit.
Unfortunately I expect kids & parent would get arrested nowadays for doing the same!!
Also aesculus hippocastanum are looking a bit sad over recent years with bleeding canker....another sign of things to come 'perhaps'. Not much point planting millions of indigenous trees if they succomb to disease or drought!!
I'm growing (or is that going?!) coconuts!!

"Is it better to demonise the Big Oil Companies or to recognise that they are a key transition component?"
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Boyobach, 'big oil' have to be part of the solution IF we manage to tackle climate change....or at least avoid the worst effects. But there will always be mistrust by the green lobby...which is probably healthy & well-founded. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas and currently big oil's business model is still built on producing fossil fuels...there is 'probably' a certain amount of green washing in some of the 'transition' plans being announced ('obviously' not by Shell!!).

Yume effectively took over RTHM - some sort of reverse takeover - taking all the cash and installing their management in control. RTHM kept the name. It would depend on the terms of any deal as to whether it is a merger, acquisition or some sort of takeover.
Thankfully we have Ofer on our team and based on the Unruly deal he is a formidable negotiator.

"The problem is that many fund managers remain cautious and are somewhat jaded after watching poor performance for much of the past decade."
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Nail on the head. Can BARC change their slightly 'dodgy' ways of the past and become a reliable & slightly boring money spinner? The jury is out....twelve angry people are trying to reach a conclusion!!....Mr Strang(e) is the foreman.

"The company is not in need of a suitor."
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Tricky, I thought in the recent PR show Ofer suggested that TRMR was investigating some sort of acquisition or merger?

" the financial sector appears to be confident that Evergrande is not another Lehman."
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I thought the potential ramifications were huge and not limited to China. It is good to know that they have managed to limit the fallout somehow.

"When the truth comes out it will make fossil fuel extraction look green by comparison."
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Getagrip, to some extent you have a point. Not enough research has gone into the environmental impact of 'going green'. The same could 'probably' be said about nuclear, it isn't a perfect solution but it will 'probably' be needed for energy security...i.e. when the sun don't shine & the wind don't blow.

News on the BBC last evening how Japan are going to import 'blue' hydrogen from Australia to generate their electricity. The rather bizarre claim is they will then be a zero carbon society....basically they are exporting their carbon emissions to Australia who will use coal to generate the hydrogen. liquefy it & ship it to Japan. The long term goal is to develop carbon capture to presumably make the hydrogen 'green' in the future.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59525480]
An example of the reality of 'going green'....there isn't an easy & perfect solution.
PS Japan was relying on nuclear for their energy production until the Fukushima nuclear disaster destroyed that plan.

MrWolf, good to hear from you again.

Yes, the De Menezes shooting was an extreme version of 'wrong place at the wrong time'...unlucky man!!

Cressida Dick's career has continued to flourish ....I think she must be made of Teflon!!

Ms Dick said in 2007: “From the behaviours described to me, nervousness, agitation, sending text messages, using the telephone, getting on and off the bus, it all added to the picture of someone potentially intent on causing an explosion.”

Which is a fair description of most people in London I imagine!!
All the best.

"What we really need is a smaller global population then there will be a reduction in goods and energy required."
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Orac, I haven't really heard 'environmentalists' calling for a reduction in world population. I don't expect that would be popular....even more of a hard sell than reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
How would we do it?! The Chinese 'solution' sort of worked but not a vote winner I suspect!!

Slightly ironically the birth rate in UK by 'indigenous' population is too low to support a vibrant economy, if you believe the economists. Perhaps the answer will be AI, where less people will be required & we will all have more 'quality' time. But I suspect it will just mean the super rich getting even richer.

Thankfully the 'hammer blow' to the travel industry doesn't seem to have hit very hard....perhaps the market is coming to terms with Omicron.
Can BARC break through and stay above 190p?!

I suspect the question is will it be restricted to travel stocks?!

"Why the world is in thrall to a teenage girl is beyond me."
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Because she makes more sense than a lot of so called 'grown ups'!!....unfortunately

"...even if we do, removing our 1% of the worlds emissions will make barely any difference"
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Ken, I'm not sure if your 1% figure tells the full story. We import so much 'stuff' from China that our consumption is fuelling their use of fossil fuels. We have exported our manufacturing to China & India who burn dirty coal to make the 'stuff' we use. So I doubt the 1% includes the carbon released in making the 'stuff' we buy. Perhaps if we all bought less 'stuff' but of a higher quality that lasted longer!!
It is so easy to find an excuse to do nothing...even making small changes to our buying habits can change the world. Perhaps we should start to 'buy British' again....if we actually make anything here now?!