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Me neither, tradingwise…. Do have the bottle for it, although it could be very tempting.

Just need some recovery in NatWest.

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Morning all,

Bot, what has given us a 3%+ rise this morning?

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Whilst not a straight “tank”, the pattern was still much the same - although the SP does seem to have held up a bit better.

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Hi Bot, I meant to say you”ll need to sell at 13:20 our time and buy at 13:40 if you go with your plan as the Americans put their clocks back on the first weekend in November, a week after us.

Looks like we are marginally down a bit this morning.

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Thanks Topo - no choice for me! If I had the bottle, I would do the same as Bot.

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Same old, same old only an hour earlier as tge clocks don’t go back in USA until next weekend.

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Topo, that is as good a reason as I have heard.😂

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Just had to renew ours - had a number of tests as GP thought I might be Diabetic but, fortunately, not! Already having to lay extra for raised BP and taking a statin.

It all means I don’t now have to phone the travel insurer before making another booking.

A bit unsettling for a couple of weeks there!

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Hi K,

When are you next away? Trying to persuade other half to visit sister-in-law in Provence……Uphill struggle at present with COVID on the rise again.

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According the the notice, they were open market purchases, bought in small blocks, as with the bigger purchase a week before.

My problem now is NatWest - especially after the way Barclays shares have gone today.

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I see Mr Weisenberger has bought another 100,000 shares costing $1,150,000. He must know something. That’s 400,000 he’s bought in the last few days!

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Absolutely agree, Topo. Must have been pretty desperate or under the up influence of something. Either way just so sad.

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I think they are already out of bounds, aren’t they?

Mr Weisenberger must be feeling a bit sick after his $3.4 purchase at $12.98 it’s down to about $11.82, a loss of around $300,000 - only if he cashes in, or course.

It has been a steady decline rather than a huge tank so I think I am in the “grossly oversold “ camp.

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Phew!! Refreshing the page did it. Peace reigns - at least it does in my head if not in the world at large.

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Hi Parky,

When my mum tried that, she made the mistake of not actually watching me swallow it on most occasions. There were times, of course, when that wasn’t so and I did have to take the stuff.

Something very odd, now - I have my hearing aids bluetoothed to my iPad and I am getting the soundtrack to a ruddy ad/podcast for LSE.

AAAaarrrrrrgh! Got to find a way to turn it off.

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Thanks K. Without realising it, I must have been in it for a while!

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Morning Topo, Parky, Ken et al,

Hope you’re all well. GP appointment this morning confirmed that I have reached the age where everything begins to spread out, wear out or fall out. 😂

The Yahoo interview with the CEO was very enlightening. I bet he is very pleased that the stock price is not one of his KPI’s!!

It begins to sound like 2026 is the year when it could get back to near 2019 levels as they need debt reduced to approx $20b to get the balance sheet into shape to achieve “investment grade” status at which point dividends might resume.

Very interesting comment about fuel costs, too. Effectively “ we can’t control them so we concentrate on what we can control - usage”.

SP might cause us a bit of pain in the meantime, but only if one’s cashes out, I suppose.

How much if an effect is the ME situation having? Are ships still sailing through Suez, still calling at most ME ports except those on the Med Coast? Have any cruise lines made announcements?

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I thought they already did that for Americans…….

Anyone know why we’re sinking, or the SP is?

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It isn’t so much the lumpy sea as the wind because these ships, even the older ones, must turn head into the wind as otherwise they will get blown over - they are just like a huge sail. That’s what our Captain on Arcadia said when we had a force 12 o; the way back from America a year or two back.

Again, great Captain and every confidence in the ship herself. H3 also reckoned the Azipods were better than standard propulsion in that kind of weather. He lost his fuel bonus on that trip, too, as he took us nearly to Greenland to try to avoid the worst of it but had to get back to S’oton on time for the next load of mugs - SORRY!! - passengers.

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So, we manage to lose the previous two-days’ gains. Let’s hope we don’t get the usual 14:30 tank.

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