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Spoke too soon.

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We have suffered worse, much worse! Clawing a bit back now.

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Hi Topo, it looks to be holding around mid £12.80’s at the moment so, like you say, hopefully not a plunge this pm.

Not sure what reaction to expect to the results. If they exceed expectations, some clod somewhere will find something negative which will be enough to cause a dip but hopefully not too serious. If they’re good enough, it may cause the shorts to close their positions - which would I think, be good news for the SP.

I wonder if Bot has broken the bank yet on his RCL cruise? He’ll be delighted if the SP is at this level when he gets back!

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And….. we’re back to the old pattern. NYSE opens and the price dips, although it hasn’t yet plunged like it has in the past.

Are CCL results coming out before Christmas? I thought I had read it would be 20th.

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The limitations of a SIPP with HL…….

😡

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Can I ask how you’ve managed that ScalpM? I’m not permitted to buy stock on other exchanges.

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Hi Parky,

Well, cannot be right all the time. Wasn’t me, though!

NatWest has picked up a bit, too. Maybe they are at last getting their act together - jolly we’ll need to.

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Next week it is, then.

Have a great weekend everyone.

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Not sure about that, Sun - but still 45 minutes to go and hovering just below £12.90, so there is a chance. Not betting on it.

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Hi K.

Most of the trades are labelled “A” which means they’re sales or purchases triggered by a price, I think. I suppose if you only have to hold the shares on a particular day, the SP is irrelevant, though.

Looks like we’ll have to wait to get to £13.

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Looks like we’ll have to wait for NYSE opening. Lots of trades today but all small numbers - largest I have seen was 5,000+ shares - so, it cannot be this that is driving the price up. Must be sentiment - again!! Oil price drop is not enough to account for it -CCL tends not to be that sensitive to it, anyway. I wonder if it’s anticipation of the full year results due out before Christmas?

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Another boot up the backside from the US.

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Apologies for any confusion. - I do have more than two baskets (not bragging). The main ones are CCL and NWG with a number of other smaller ones, including, like K, some “penny punts”.

I haven’t yet found an old dresser or sideboard with a watch in it.

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I had one of those but I dropped it. - along with several bricks…….

I hope Bot is following all this. I think he bought back in below £10.

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My average purchase price is a tad over £8. I shudda sold y NatWest and bunged it in here last week but the, all my eggs would have been in one basket. Isn’t that something we are warned against?

UTD price is £12.37 - LSE is 15 mins delayed.

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No need to wait for Friday,Parky! Just needs to hold on, like yesterday!

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Papalazz not only are your posts always pessimistic, they are sometimes badly wrong, viz the rebuttal by Thriftygirl the other day.

We know full well about debt problems with SAGA, for example. Carnival are in a different place. They have a plan and strategy to manage and pay down debt so this is already priced into the shares. The total shares in issue is around 214,000,000 but actual tradeable shares are around 146,000,000 which is the number to be used for determining whether a holding has to be declared to the SEC.

With new ships, increased prices and higher revenue from other sources, they have no need to issue any more shares. Carnival also hold two large tranches in treasury and elsewhere so would use these to raise money. But, again, they don’t need to.

I do hope that, like K, you are now in profit on your holding.

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Well done, K!

Even NatWest is on the up! Dunno about Friday, could be later today if tge same pattern as yesterday after US opens…….

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And then closes here very close to the day’s high!

Is this the road to the pre-pandemic highs, eventually? Probably depends, not so much on the full-year results, but how they are perceived/received.

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Whatever they were doing in the US, it looks like they’ve stopped as the SP is back to preNYSE opening level.

Oh well, still up for the day.

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