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Still don't get it!! What relevence has Enrique singing 'Hero' got to do with NEX?? Personally i can't stand the guy, or the mushy rubbish he sings.

Maybe, then an attempt at a 3 year high of 500p+, followed by a steady march back to its all-time high of £15.26 back in Dec '06!! Infinity and Beyond!! Oh dear, i'm rambling again - Nurse!! Would quite happily settle for consolidation above 450p and 500p by year end. ATB.

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Well done on making a profit, if you had held until today it would have all disappeared!!! Best of luck with SXX, will add them to my watchlist and see how they go. ATB.

Bet a few people wish they had acted on your 'Strong Buy' signal from 30/12. This is now up nearly 50% in just 6 weeks. Nice one M8. Do you have any more tips??? ATB.

Spot on with the prediction of 240p. If it does go to 265p in the next 4 weeks can i borrow your crystal ball?? lol

Where did that sp come from???? Would have been very nice had it been true!!

NEX said on Thursday it had been awarded an extension on its franchise to run the c2c commuter line, which runs between London and Essex, for a further two years until May 26, 2013. Chief Executive Dean Finch said the extension reflected National Express's success in making c2c 'one of the best performing train operators in Britain'. In September, National Express was given a reprieve on its only other franchise, East Anglia, when the coalition government gave it an initial 28 week extension beyond the original expiry date of March 31 2011. The previous Labour government had denied it an extension on the franchise.

Having a very rough idea of your entry and exit prices, would you not have made more if you had sold today and taken the 92p div?? With the cost savings and benefits from the merger, fully expect IPR to reach 350p soon and push on back up to 400p by year end. ATB.

As predicted, anyone who bought in around the 410p level has only seen their investment fall by 73p but will receive a 92p div, so an easy 20p profit for doing nothing!!!

We have very very different investment strategies, so best of luck to you in recovering some, if not all, of your losses on HMV, and best of luck with your trading. You are active in the market whereas i'm merely monitoring a lot of shares bought back in the 80's and 90's when the wife and i were on decent money. Never had any faith in pensions - even less so after Brown took away the tax credit - so invested directly into shares, and latterly moreso in UT's investing mainly into Emerging Markets and China. So now find myself retired and culling the poor performers and those with little in the way of divs whenever finances need a little boost. ATB.

If ever you are unsue what the ticker code for a share is, as lots use a full-stop - BP. RR. UU. etc and BT are actually BT.A - easiest thing to do is go to the top of the page and in the 'share price search' box type in the full company name and pick the one you want from the suggested list. Simples!!!

Perhaps you won't disappear if i don't mention you by name!! As for your observations on RSA and insurers in general you could well be correct. Bring it on. ATB.

As you no doubt realised when you trawled back through my posts i like a good blether and Choppy2 is one of the best. As you would have also seen I spend ages talking to wag7 - another Scot - on MWH. When it comes to average word count per post i'm probably right up at the top. Unfortunately for others very little of it is actually to do with shares!!! Agree with you on Netley. Although BP is one of my bigger holdings, and Netley has credited me with being the longest holder on the board - i first bought back in the mid 70's - I seldom post there as i feel my schoolboy ramblings would not be appreciated. There other posters whose comments i trust and most of them tend to have posted in the high 1000's. Me being the exception that proves the rule!! Tend not to follow the BOOM merchants who rave about every 0.1p rise on some penny dreadful only to disappear when it subsequently gives up the gain!! Netley started a campaign to recommend thistle, which probably explains why he/she is now top of that list. Time will tell with HMV, i hope for your sake it does recover, but i will not be investing. My portfolio already contains enough basket cases!! Keep in touch and let me know if you decide to take option 3. As you say you would take a small profit and buy back ex-div tomorrow, depending on just how big the fall is you may well be better off. If it closes around 425p today IMHO i would expect to see it open around 340p ish and maybe rise slightly over the next week or so - but then what do i know???

BG today announced strong 4th quarter and full year results. The board has recommended a final div of 7.31p, payable 20/5, bringing the full year div to 13.66p, an increase of 10% compared with last year. But, on todays price, a yield of only 0.93%!! Guess we can't have a rising sp and a good yield.

Am i the Grim Reaper in disguise or what??? Why is it that when i reply to people they seem to completely disappear?? This is the 3rd or 4th time now it has happened!! I reply to 'johnnytheplumber' and 3 days later he's completely disappeared, no history, no trace no nothing!!! It's spooky!!!

Apologies for my comments on HMV recently, I believe Choppy2 spoke up for me, as we speak a lot about a lot of things on the THT board. I know it was a bit naughty of me as i don't hold and maybe i shouldn't have taken such a dim stance on the share, I know i take a dim view to people posting bleak comments on shares i own, so i have learnt my lesson!!! And for the record i have a few HMV's in my portfolio so i know how it feels when a share only seems to go one way!! 410p is IMHO a good buy in price. If you read back over some of my posts on IPR - you won't have to go far as there's not many of us here - you will see that i have been suggesting exactly what you have just said. I don't think the sp will fall by the full 92p, so depending what the closing price on 8/2 is it could be a nice little earner. Pity the DRIP has been suspended for this div as i always take the option of new shares with my divs, but think i will take the cash out this time as i'm trying to do up a property to sell and have to generate cash from somewhere, and this way it avoids dealing charges - result!! You are correct that the IPR div is a good yield - 4% last year - and even though the monetary value will be re-based to take into account the return of capital it should stay around that level. As for good yields i like NG and the other utilities SSE, SVT, and UU. all 5.5-6% and RSA, BNC, SL. and THT all around 6%. At my age i'm looking for income so glad to see PSN and BP back on the divi trail, and have high hopes for NEX and HWDN to re-instate their divs with the next set of results. Then all i need is for LLOY to pay one and i'll nearly have a full set!! Depending which way this moves before next Tues you could do very well, if it only drops say 80-85p from 430p you could have received 92p and only seen your shares drop by 60p from your purchase price. If only everything was as easy!!! ATB.

Hope you are able to track down a stockist of the vodka, think their site lists bars that carry it, you may well be converted by the taste. Before i went i thought i hated gin, now i think theirs is wonderful. There are lots of religions that allow men to have lots of wifes, but none that allow women lots of husbands!! That's outrageous, shall we start a holy crusade for equal rights?? lol Thanks for the reply on BP, glad you knew i was joking!! Hope you enjoy your hol - you lucky devil - speak when you get back. Wonder where the relative sp's will be by then?? BP due for a tick up. ATB.

Not quite at their all-time highest levels, as they were briefly trading at 350p back in mid 2007, but are currently at a two-year high. I'm sure you already know this, but if you click on the 3-month graph above you can get it re-drawn going back with up to 5 years of price data. Remember, depending on where and how she holds her shares at the moment, you are likely to incur two sets of dealing charges, one to sell and one to buy back into the account. Have you thought of placing the shares into a stocks and shares ISA, that way all profits are free of CGT.

Sorry to hear about your pudding disaster. Can't imagine a meal with no pudding, my worst nightmare!! A little while back when we were talking about trips around distilleries i mentioned we had a trip planned to Sipsmith's in W. London. It was absolutely amazing, if you have time google them and have a look, they use a small 300 litre still called 'Prudence' and make the most divine Gin and Vodka. Even better try to find their products, we've just bought some from Majestic, but they are also stocked by Oddbins. I had always hated gin but have decided it's the tonic i don't like, i love their gin neat - it's so smooth - makes a change from malt or bourbon. And their Vodka is to die for, slightly sweet and a faint taste of cream soda or marshmallows. They also do a Sloe Gin, if you like that sort of thing see if you can track down a botle of their limited edition pre-xmas run. I will never buy Smirnoff or Gordons again. Any chance you could make a fresh batch of your 'Tiramisu pot-hole filler' and send it down here, we all look like we're driving under the influence, swerving to avoid the craters lol!!