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Very awake, it as the spread at market open as shown by iweb.

Anyway, plebs selling out have been milked of their pathetic holdings by iis cheaply again, and the switch from gold to equities continues. I am looking or a profit take at 152

Poor Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Out of the hell of an Iranian prison into the hell of the BBC. They are running the story as if they own her, having ran the campaigns for her. She has been a very useful tool to bash the Tories with. Any concept she may have of a free life, she should think again. I know how the BBC works with these cause celebs, they own her, she is obliged to furnish them with unfettered access and they will be expecting the puppet to dance on command. When she is 'interrogated' in the forced BBC interviews, she will be obliged to say she owes everything to the BBC, that the Tories and specifically Boris Johnson should be publicly flogged and that Brexit must be reversed. You watch and listen. When she is interviewed by the BBC, they will relentlessly push her to be as negative as possible about the Tories and especially Boris. Poor Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

saw 152 flash up but no chance of getting that manually

Hang Seng on a blinder, over 6%

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/economy/2022/03/16/us-fed-raises-rates-a-quarter-point-in-hopes-of-curbing-inflation/

Confirmed, fed raises 0.25%, a lot of that is expected and priced in. However it rules out shock tactics and nothing about the war influencing judgment. So should have a quick bounce to cash in on in morning.

I don't think the NHS vaccine cert is of any use. I won't be coming back whilst crap like this and passenger locator forms and masks are still needed. They want to persuade people to stay away, their lookout.

At the moment you can't seem to do much other than basic shopping without one. Can't sit at a table, at a bar, no cafe, hell not even sit at the open seating area at the airport macedee!!!! You best sort them out for your selves. And they are still married to the masks too.

better remove the 148p order before opening Tomorrow. With no fed surprises such as .5 increase, should clean up another 4% morning spike. Out here in Italy they have a very weird green pass system for restaurants and bars. So we are stuck with a McDonald's, but can't sit on a quite table, no, we have to sit on crowded seats by a gate
This is as ****eyed as it gets!

Thank you bobbins for that thought! Mask wearing barely 25% compliance, no enforcement. Why they bother with notices is beyond me. It's over, the masks do nothing - let it go, the comfort blanket will have to be surrendered.

A little cheat, went all out on opening spike to claw back another couple of percent. Will see what the drop is like before going back in pre flight and maybe set a more conservative order around 148, only in the air a couple of hours, what could possibly go wrong?

As travelling tomorrow I have to break my own golden rule never to use orders. So just in case good news breaks, set the sell at 158. We have seen 15% intra day a couple of times.

Sounds like Libya trying to return to a bartering system to get around sanctions. That didn't go well!

He should ditch any idea of joining Europe. Most people IN europe want out, we left and they absolutely firked up trying to negotiate for Ukraine with Russia.

"and recognised Russian control of Crimea and separatist-held areas."

The difficult bit. The only solution would be a free open referendum on territorial allegiance or the facilitated migration of those who did not want to live in the enclaves under either 'master'. Given the number of people NOT fleeing to Russia, we can see where that is going. It is assumed hat as there were separatists then the locals support them. The war has revealed they were probably more under separatist suppression than wanting to be under Russian control.

"A Fed spokesperson confirmed the meeting began as scheduled at 1300 GMT, and markets will get the decision on Wednesday at 1900 GMT, which is expected to see the benchmark interest rate rise by 0.25 percentage points from zero, where it has been since March 2020."

So, stay in, or bail? Oh and a breakthrough in Ukraine war could happen to break any moment too.

Might be some quick fire manual trading open of market tomorrow.

Even China abstained!! I think we can safely say, Russia is very isolated. And those abstaining to hedge against an easy Russian victory have been announcing shifting positions against Moscow since 2nd March.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/united-nations-russia-ukraine-vote

"In an emergency session of the UN’s general assembly, 141 of the 193 member states voted for the resolution, 35 abstained, and five voted against. The only countries to vote no in support of Moscow were Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea and Syria. Longstanding allies Cuba and Nicaragua joined China in abstaining."

At what price ed? China pays $20 a barrel? Also China adds a whole heap of territorial and policy conditions on Russia? Business is business. You also forget, the economic hit the west places itself under wit net zero combined with higher energy costs means the west buys less sh.it rom China which impacts China. I can see China buying the oil and gas and then selling on to the west at a favourable price. Russia having to practically surrender the resource or it has no sales to China and hence income. China is not 'in love' with Russia and they can do some very aggressive business deals.

"Tomorrow marks a rather significant day in financial markets as the Federal Reserve Bank is scheduled to announce its first rate hike since the pandemic. Prior to the invasion of Ukraine, prominent FOMC members, particularly James Bullard, advocated for a rather aggressive approach to rate hikes, supporting a 50 basis point hike in March. Since then, market expectations seem to have settled on a more conservative 25 basis point hike (91% likelihood according to rates markets)."

https://www.dailyfx.com/forex/market_alert/2022/03/15/USDJPY-Technical-Outlook-US-Fed-and-BoJ-Central-Bank-Preview-RS-LiveEdu.html

AC77, more likely Fed only expected to raise interest rates by .25 % noting there was no 'emergency' raise earlier in March. With the slowdown expected by reduced trade due to war sanctions, is it possible there will be NO increase!

6p swing this morning and yet again on the wrong side of it. No overall gain for yesterday and today. With luck I can back a few % this afternoon now back at breakeven.