Member Info for Bhants

We booked a suite on Arcadia for April 2025 to the central Med, Greece and Sicily, on the day after bookings opened and they were already 50% sold.

Carnival have been saying for ages that bookings are stronger than they have ever been.

FWIW, the fed look as though they might not be raising rates again anytime soon although the BoE will today and don’t expect to get back to around their 2% inflation target for quite a while.

Enjoy your return to Helsinki, Ken, it is indeed a lovely city.

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If Greylady is looking, I owe you an apology! Carnival’s year-end is November 30th, not in October. So sorry. That means Q1 results came out late March and therefore Q2’s will be late June. Apologies again.

I do hope you have profited from this week’s uptick.

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A 5% increase in one day? Amazing that it has held! Great!

Just seen that the App on Arcadia only works for dining.

On Arvia, Iona and Britannia it covers everything.

On Azura and Ventura it’s somewhere in between.

B

Club dining is fine if you’re happy sitting with the same folks each time ans you get only a choice of two sittings, I think, 18:30 & 20:30.

We always do Freedom now. The ,”My P & O Cruise” App is on Arcadia, too. Once you get used to it, it works fine. Virtual queue instead of an actual one, although when it first began, they used to notify all the folks at the same time who had booked a certain time, so there was a real queue as well! Seem to have got the hang of it now. Flexibility is better and dining starts at 18:00. On the other hand, the buffet is 24/7.

We are on Arcadia from Sunday - can’t wait!

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Carnival has an odd year-end date of 30th October with results coming out about a month later. So, Q1 results to end January came out at the end of February, the Q2 results, i.e. end April, are due out on 30th May, I understand.

All the signs are that they will be positive, hopefully exceeding expectations. With this share, though, even that might not be good enough for a decent uptick in the price. It does also seem to be unduly affected by external factors like one of the directors sneezing.

If you buy this one, or are already a holder, the sentiment seems to be hang in there for 12 to 18 months at least to see a return to a double digit price.

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I am inclined to say “and?” but no wish to be rude. Total shorts are still less than 3% and WQ only increased their position by 0.1% yesterday.

Personally, I think the shorters are backing the wrong horse.

Just my opinion, of course.

B

Looks like it did just cling on! Not the usual Friday performance, Mesa!

Have a relaxed weekend and enjoy the Coronation tomorrow.

B

Sorry, that 146,000,000.

PS Carnival purchased another 146.900 shares yesterday.

They have 124,000,000+ voting shares in issue (i.e. in the US). UK shares have no such rights. I have no idea how shares are in issue in the UK.

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Maybe ypthe price can Klingon to £7?

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Hi Botbot. I thought it was your presence in the Casino that gave RCL a boost.

I am still under water on this one, like a number of others. I need about a £1 uplift from here to be breathing air. Very much looking forward to a week on Sunday when we get on Arcadia for three weeks.

P &O might be in cost cutting mode as we had a survey last week asking what we thought of the butler service and how would we feel about a concierge instead. Not a brilliant idea for us but looks a bit inevitable. Maybe they will hold off until after the refit in late 2024.

All the best. A day late but “may the 4th be with you”. Break the bank!

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Only 54,418 shares purchased yesterday. Must be running out of cash……

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That isn’t too difficult, EC, it’s ended 2.2% down here, wiping out yesterday’s gain.

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And as soon as the Americans turn up, back down we go.

Ridiculous.

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Botbot must be in the casino again…….

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Ok, thanks. Isn’t that like the original slogan of “Access”, the rival to Barclaycard at the time?

“Take the waiting out of wanting”?

Thought we might have moved in since then. I heard not long ago of a group of 14 year-olds who were being taught a bit about personal finance. All of them chose the highest interest rate for a loan - ‘cos it’s the best, innit?

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Hang on a minute there, K, the Times is suggesting that although the Fed raised rates by 25 points yesterday, it has signalled that it may pause rate rises in view of the economic situation in the US.

Does that still constitute a hike?

One day, I’ll manage to put all thoughts into one post instead of three……..

B

So, we have now lost more this morning than we gained yesterday. No surprise there.

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Agreed, it will. Why do the “experts” persist in their beliefs,
1. Interest rates affect Carnivals interest payments when at least 75% of them are on fixed rates
2. Ditto the “consumers” of cruises - if anything, they benefit from a rate hike on their savings

Just a thought, probably naive or, worse, just logical.

B

Another 117,000+ shares purchased yesterday. “stock swap program” apparently.

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