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Retirement.!

WOW.!

Now you're a blast from the past.! on the RR Board.!

Yep. Unfortunately Carnival is not an RR, and unfortunately I dumped RR many many pounds too early.!

Hope you are well.

Good Luck with your next investment.

So eventually it opened with an 18p drop

UK Close at $29.18 .. US Closed at $28.85... Currently After Hours is showing $28.94. Assuming $28.94 holds.... That's a 24c Drop or 17.50p drop.......

BUT.

It didn't hold. It closed at $28.72. Which is a 46c drop.... 33p ish drop.......

UK Close at $29.18 .. US Closed at $28.85... Currently After Hours is showing $28.94. Assuming $28.94 holds.... That's a 24c Drop or 17.50p drop.

Considering the Israel actions today, I'm surprised we gained at all, so a drop nearly back to where we started today is a win really.

$28.89 >> $28.79 >> 10c drop >> 7.5p ish drop

UK Closed $28.89

Never ceases to amaze me.!

We closed at $28.91. US Currently is $28.87 with 12 minutes to go. So basically we are even ish, 3p maybe down, but now the weekend, so who knows.!

Good weekend all.!

Bhants

It's ok.

Basically, what happened this morning US Time was... Oh, Here's the jobs report. Oh look, there aren't any jobs, oh well don't panic the Fed will now have to drop the rates......

Then it was Oh My God..... There's no jobs..... oh no....... and then the markets tanked....

It will probably all be rosey later.!

$28.97 >> After Hours >> $29.13 >> 16c Gain >> 12p ish UP for our opening.

UK Closed at $28.97. US is currently $29.06 (at 3.20 EST) so another 40 minutes.

Will update in the morning

Thanks CWWX.

After Hours, it closed at $28.69

So UK Closed at $28.68, US $28.69 therefore flat opening ish

UK Closed at $28.68

US Dollar has gone from $1.355 down to $1.34, so a 1.5c gain which has seriously helped push us back up. That alone is a 24p gain......

and pre-market has us now at $28.65.

So we have an UP and then an UP again.

$27.97 >> $28.20 (After Hours) >> 23c >> 17p Up.

CWWX.

Thank you.

I haven't bought any yet, and have been tossing up whether to or not.

My Bond funds have returned usually 4% a year growth plus between 5% and 7% income per year over the past 4 years, so buying Gilts is a bit of a step down.!

We closed at $27.97

Bhants.

I know many things about many things, but Gilts I'm still looking into.

From my understanding. When you buy the Gilt for lets say £100, the rate at which you buy is fixed. BUT... The Value of that Gilt then changes on the secondary market so although you bought it for £100, a year later it might only be worth £95. BUT as it's a 10/20/30 year Gilt it doesn't matter about the price for the resale because you're not selling it. You would get the 4%/5% etc. for the term of the Gilt.

What I don't know is... Is Interest paid monthly, yearly, or at the end of the Gilt. Does the secondary market price recover when it gets close to the Maturity date i.e. £100 down to £95 back up to £100 when it's maturing and what is the actual protection of them. I'm aware they are government backed, but does that mean they are 100% guaranteed unless the government actually declares bankruptcy / WW3.....

Also.

From a UK and European perspective, Inflation has slightly crept up, concerns of firing Reeves etc. and Government UK GIlts now at 1998 levels, which again is "bad". But buying a Gilt at 5.68% for a 30 year return is a good return.!

Bhants.

The US is in freefall. Concern of job numbers later this week, concern of Inflation, concern of Orange mans next move noting the US Appeal court ruling against him on Friday, even though it's now going to the Supreme court.

Most stocks down, travel stocks down heavier as obviously nobody has any money.!