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The common denominator between the 3 knackered US banks is crypto. They are described as either 'crypto friendly' or a 'destination for crypto companies'.

The snake oil fools gold ponsi scheme of crypto was always a casino gamble. The rest of the retail and commerce sector has kept crypto at arms length so the only damage will come to those who fell for it.

"UK arm of Silicon Valley maybe needing a bail out,"

What the hell are you talking about? HSBC have already bought the UK holding. I am thinking that you are just guessing at things following some basic news bulletin. Your astonishing lack of knowledge of even the most basic points is getting embarrassing. You are making people cringe every time you post.

Low volume, barley a mark up which will most likely be squared off as a neutral day at close. If a story of somebody buying up assets doesn't budge this up, well......

"Solvency is not and will never be an issue for POLY."

JN, In which case, why did Nesis warn three times of fatal scenarios and point out other issues that could sink the company. It is absolutely the most irresponsible thing to say any company is practically immune from insolvency - especially when the insolvency of the US's 16th biggest bank has just happened. You're posts are getting more and more fantastical and blatant fabrication as you try and sell POLY. Every flag from you is now a red flag warning to contain deliberate misinformation.

Will the counter sanctions be interpreted or extended to include any form of listing on exchanges based in unfriendly jurisdictions?

Is POLY asset sale fire sale to stay solvent?

That 1mil order was priced 246, which meant it had been traded days earlier, many days to be at that price and there is nothing to say whether it was a buy or sell.

I am certainly NOT trying to find some weird justification to buy in, actually quite the opposite given the smoke and mirrors and lack of trust from 25th Jan and war over splitting in the boardroom, 75%??

IF, and a very big if, the company openly ditched ESG and therefore decoupled from Blackrock ideology, like a lot of major sovereign, and pension fund investors are doing, then it could come back on the radar. But a lot of other things like the anti-split component of the board resigning (which I believe is only a small but very autocratic minority) will have to happen too. You should never invest in a company with opposing strategies in the boardroom. It never ends well.

Let's face it, IF a sale of assets is back on the cards, that is a major U turn from explicit statements made before. In fact a clarification RNS might be due tomorrow.

I tell you what would tempt me to consider a longer term investment. If Blackrock pulled out citing failure to implement ESG policy!!!!!!!!!! ESG is not shareholder friendly. The company published a major report back in 2021 I think, all singing and dancing around ESG, I have wondered how much of that was for the benefit of Blackrock. There has been a significant backlash against ESG over the last couple of years. I would be interested to know if the company is still sucking up to all that elitist crap, or whether they have decided they don't care if Blackrock is invested and is that why sale of assets is back on the table?

I know some here like to pretend this is a non issue, but those who have a wider reading list will know how big this subject has become and how some very significant changes have been in big investment strategies.

I want to know specifically, does POLY continue to hold a candle for ESG, or is the return for shareholders the primary focus now?

"Mining magnate Vladislav Sviblov is weighing a purchase of some of the Russian assets of Polymetal International Plc, "

So the board saying the option to sell off the Russian assets was completely off the table, was yet another porky. They have been open to offers after all.

This board (the 75% ers) is far from the straight up trust worthy do gooders people keep trying to claim them to be. Critical question is whether this is hostile because POLY is stressed and forced in to a fire sale or whether the redom with no split is so complicated with no chance of GDR in London that the previous sell off is being re-explored. It could also be part of the board have invited exclusive bids in order to thwart the anti-split group with their 75% vote threshold guaranteeing no split.

Only thing I am looking out for is volatility at a much lower sp for some day trading. It is far to risky for me to put money in as an investment over time. If this report is true, it means a lot more is going on than people think and my caution and left of field analysis is much closer than the rainbow chasers on here.

It as an overstressed investment bank with a very narrow portfolio betting on some next big tech thing. Isolated from the rest of the financial world which is why there no headless chickens squawking on the pundit slots. It gets a note on the news because bright new shiny things are al the vogue in the high tech media and this reminds mass media of it's potential own mortality as tech over prices itself. There are as many panic news stories in the tech world when it is revealed book shops with real books are making a comeback as people ditch tech. We are supposed to be nudge theorised into more and more tech so we can be controlled by fewer managed news sources. Checkout the horror at Musk and twitter as he de-radicalises it and removes the woke bias. Trump haters up in arms. What was the question again?

love the way the web address has to be in alphanumeric despite the contents being in Cyrillic. Huh masters of the universe NOT. lol

Gold prices are not 'rising fast again'. They are at the same level as Feb 9th, but still well below January 24th ish and even further from Feb 2022 ish. And as for the July 2020 high........ There has been a bounce back to a little above the March 5th level with as sharp a rate of change up as down. This is currently noise at the end of a month long decline. It is frankly absurd to label that as any "price rising fast again". Honestly!

Vinylidene fluoride?
Lithium battery production.
or
Vinylidene Chloride
Food wrap coating or flame ******ent.

Grand conspiracy to false flag a chemical attack in Ukraine? Frankly you have to enter fantasy land to deduce that. Burning off a chemical spill will produce a very wide range of compounds from which many stories can be made up.

The conspiracy theorists behind this steaming pile would be classified as a paranoid schizophrenic. A true genuine tin foil hat wearer.

Seriously still trying to claim a train fire in the US was really part of some plot to supply mustard gas to Ukraine? Next you'll be saying NATO is at war with Russia and Ukraine is full of Nazis, very well hidden ones too.

chippy, China has also lost a huge amount of trade trying to get clever adding massive hikes in shipping costs. They are learning the customers in the west are not stupid. The more professional companies I deal with have reset shipping to previous levels but many companies out source to shipping agents who are still trying to hold out with the massive increases. Lot of widgets now cheaper than China without the shipping time. Also couriers have very generous schemes to temp exporters to limit shipping to certain air freight. Small intermediate suppliers have suffered total wipeout because of this.

One of the components along with zero covid which has hammered China exports.

Did someone just try to claim mustard gas was being sent to Ukraine? Was that a real comment? Have you people no idea just how stupid your propaganda is at times? If any of you actually believe such stuff, you deserve to be occupied by nato and put to work for the benefit of everybody else. Absolutely ridiculous.

"Just think about it and let it sink in: an ex-convict who later became a caterer and later stole his fortune together, assembled the most brutal war criminals into a private army, had “special [government] phone lines in all of the offices and [Wagner] units” and also had “passes to the agencies responsible for making decisions”.

How could it come this far in Russia? How long can the Russian population continue to look the other way?"

Nice comment left for that news article. Down the line, Russians are not going to keep looking the other way.
1000 cuts, tick tock.....

" No one has made any serious efforts at peace up to now,"

Are some of you still expecting some sort of negotiated settlement where Russia makes a territorial gain? Oh dear.

not fixated with the debt, merely pointing out an omission in the summary of the business finances somebody posted earlier.

A few of you are very very very touchy about this aren't you. Instead of sweeping it under the carpet, you kinda draw attention to it. Then again, 2.1billion is one heck of a big bucket of KFC!

scare mongering? Inappropriate comment. Real world 360 is not just acceptable, but necessary. No dreamland assessments.