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Could hardly be more wrong, could it? Defies logic - but then it always did, I suppose.

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Wotcha, Watcher. Have you been on a cruise before? Sounds not.

If you want “all ages” then, as a P & O fan I would suggest one of the new ships, Iona or Arvia, and a round trip from Southampton if you prefer not to fly. 10 or 12 days to, say, Canaries or Mediterranean or Norway (our favourite) so you have long enough to really savour the trip but not so long if you don’t get on with whole thing.

Just some thoughts. Others will have some as well, especially Topofthecharts and Ken, etc.

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You have my sympathy, BeeJay. Gib seems, to me at least, to have not much to offer other than, supposedly, tax-free jewellery and nut grabbing apes that are getting nearer and nearer the town/city.

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Oh dear, spoke too soon…….sorry.

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Clawing it’s way back a bit after NYSE opened.

Being lazy is what a cruise is about, innit? At least while on board. Ironically, we were on Arcadia just before lockdown in Spain when they shut us out of Malaga. In May, they have put in Malaga instead of Gibraltar. Bonus!

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Especially if they waited until lunchtime today.

Mesa, I agree that this one-way sensitivity is ridiculous, especially after the comments in the webcast and in their filings about the “headwind” of fuel prices and F/ X. They made all the progress in Q1 in spite of both of these. Why do the analysts think they won’t continue to manage as well over the next couple of quarters and beyond?

The Saudi cut will supposedly add around 5% to the oil price. On the news just now I thought they must be thinking it was still April 1st when they said “it will take some time for this to work through to pumps on the forecourt”. By “some time” do they mean tomorrow?

Just makes me cross. Now’t I can do about it. But, yes, we have now lost all last week’s gain.

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Have you sat at a bridge table yet, Topo?

Cunard would be a good place to start because a) tuition is free and b) they usually have very good, if not the best, teachers.

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Good for you Ken! An evangelist for CCL shares…… my average is nearer £8 so, looking forward to getting there sometime, if not necessarily anytime soon.

Good bit of movement on PREM last week. Have you made your 1m yet? Lol

Really looking forward to our Arcadia trip on 14th May.

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Sad to say I have to agree about EC but that’s another story.

The number of trades posted today is a lot less than half of yesterday’s. That perhaps goes some way to explaining the relative stability/small gain made today. If the gain today is perpetuated over time the SP will go up about 3.5% per week. That would break through £8 in less than three weeks!

I am not suggesting it will happen at all like that because this share is know for its volatility. But it is possible!

Have a good weekend everyone after a positive (eventually) week when it seems that the MM’s at last took some notice of how Carnival was actually doing, rather than thinking about what it might do.

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I’m probably not the best person to ask because however the SP behaves, or I am in for the long haul. But 12 months ago it was at the kind of level you mention. But, I guess, that was on the road down to just under £5 a few months back.

I don’t have the courage to “day trade” as, knowing me, I would buy when I should sell and vice versa!

Provided the results for the remainder of this year and into next continue on the trend they now seem to be on, there should be no reason for the SP not to be looking very good, and even better into 2024.

You might also have gathered that I don’t like speculation because I think it simply doesn’t help. Following Carnival’s announcements and progress from their website and filings they make is probably the best way to judge them. Do bear in mind, though, that “the markets” seem to take any and every opportunity to depress the price on the flimsiest hint of not so good news.

Best news lately is that Wells Fargo upgraded their “sell” tag to “neutral”.

All this is just my thoughts/opinion, of course.

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The calculator on my phone does it for me! But thanks.

Seems to be holding steady at the moment. Like you say, wait to see what happens when NYSE opens.

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It’s nudging 5% today. $10 is roughly equivalent to £7.15 allowing for the “non-voting” discount of 12% and an exchange rate of $1.23 to £1. So we are already ahead of that.

Does anyone know of a chart which plots the movements of the US price against the UK price? Time differential won’t help but just, say, for the overlap period?

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You’re welcome.

If only “the market” behaved logically. I agree though about the future. I listened to the webcast and thought it was very, very positive with reassurance about management of debt etc.

Let’s hope it is really recovery time for the share price!

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I agree - not before time…..

I know your position must have been a bit (very!?) scary!

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Good day, in the end!

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Agree, Terry. Experience tells me not to get hopes up too much! Lol…..

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But it also shows that two shorters, Qube nd Capewll, close their positions on 24th March and late February respectively. It means that less than 2% of UK shares are now shorted.

This probably tells us something but not very much.

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But cannot or will not hang on to that gain.

Yes, gone past £6.70 here, too.

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Ah - thank you - I agree entirely. Doesn’t make it any less frustrating though

Best,

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