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Bhants.

Great to have you back safe and sound, and great to hear you had a good time.

P&O is no different than any of the cruise lines where they are building bigger and better and the cruise ship itself is the destination to maximise on revenue.

Obviously I'm on Royal and their Oasis class ships are by far the largest in the world, but with their new Icon of the Seas, which is nearly 251,000 Tonnes vs Iona's 184,000 it is obviously massive, and will be the new largest ship in the world.

The Older ships will be kept for as long as they possible can keep them. The smaller ships are the ones that goes into smaller ports, and have the weird and wonderful destinations, which can never be replaced by the gigantic ships.

One of my favourite Royal ships is Grandeur of the Seas, which is the oldest in the fleet, 1996, and even smaller than Aurora, but it has the old decor, and "proper cruising" feel about it.

Whatever the scenario, we've only got another 7 weeks until Q3 results anyway....

Don't forget.........Forecast is...

CCL EPS forecast for the fiscal quarter 2023 (Q3) is $0.78.

This is not good.!

It's being walked downwards it would seem.

$17.39/$17.40 Close >>> Now $17.17, so a 22c/23c drop.....or 16p ish.....

Let's hope that next week is going to bring some fortune.

Avg wage, + Employer Pension, and Employer NI Contributions.....£40,000.....

13% x £40,000 x 24,000 /18 months x 12 months = £83.2m Extra in Salaries/Pension/Tax

If the avg, including Pilots is £50k, then that's £104m Extra.

Let's hope that we are at 98% of 2019, not 97%.

I guess the hedge funds read this board and said, well, we will make them pay now....

So we can all blame Fordy for today's drop.

DON'T POKE THE BEAR SILLY. :-)

I liked this bit...

"Rising revenues have also allowed them to begin making a dent in their debt piles, though Greg Johnson, analyst at Shore Capital, said Carnival remained “a very leveraged business”.

Despite the high levels of debt and sharply rising borrowing “Carnival’s valuation has completely normalised . . . It’s a head-scratcher,” Johnson added."

We closed at $17.54, overnight it closed at $17.52, so even ish.

BUT.

FTSE Futures currently bright green.

Dow/S&P/Nasdaq futures bright green.

Greed factor now back to 74/100

Let's see what the day ahead holds.!

£20 by March.!

Bhants

There is a webcam.!

Is that you on the balcony with the white Y-Fronts.?

Bhants.

Looking across the whole market, Carnival is actually doing incredibly well.!

The big boys are in to "profit taking", so everything has tanked.

Don't forget, you don't need the money yet.!

£20 by March.

Final close $17.73.!

So, in theory, a 15c gain = 10.5p gain for us in the morning on opening, assuming like for like, no changes overnight.

Ok.!

Too soon.!

$17.71 now.!!

I'm hoping that this is not premature, but tomorrow SHOULD BE an awesome day.

1. We closed at $17.58, and currently it's $17.78

2. The US is still currently massively down, so tomorrow, you would normally have a massive up day.

3. I haven't seen this for over 6 months, the Greed Factor has dropped to 67/100. Which means that hopefully the market is going to very hungry.!

I hope everyone got off the coach whilst they were working out how to get back on the road.!

Nooby.

It doesn't look any prettier on the UK Google chart than the US Futures though :-)

Ugly is probably the right word.!

The World, especially travel everywhere is in a nose-dive.

Just close your eyes, and give it a few days........

or......if you are brave, sell, and hope it continues to drop to buy back in at a lower price.!....but it might bounce.

The reason is the downgrade of US Credit.

Unsure what that has to do with travel, or UK shares but hey.!

Nooby.

Yes, all the time.

I found a work around.!

I use Google Finance link instead.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CCL:LON

Overnight, we closed at $17.89...........So zero upside.

UK Close - $17.89 @ 4.30pm UK time (11.30am EST)

Currently it's $17.96

Currently looking like we are not going to recover overnight.!

Anyone would think it's our results that's crap.

A 7.1% drop in the US

A £1 swing.

That is absolutely incredible

£12.40 a share..........

WOW.