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And if you remember about two months ago, the conversations about using a main stream provider vs a low cost provider.....

and this is another reason not to use a low cost provider.!

I found T212 to be one of the worse for spread and updates/action, and resolution of issues.!

Same people..........or maybe it should be Shame People LOL

Looks like it's all change.!

New Shares, New Board, but shame people.!

Just hope we don't get inundated with loads of Americans LOL

Where has CWWX gone .???

This is the longest walk ever….!!!

Oh Bhants

I’m still here.!

I haven’t died…. Yet……!!! LOL

In Kobe today (and yesterday)

Luckily Casino now closed until the next cruise which starts on Friday being the Trans-Pacific to Vancouver.

I was $7,000 down and then had an amazing run on roulette so now $12,000 UP…for this cruise.

16,000 points gives me another Suite for free which I’ll book for 2027 TA on Freedom from Miami to Southampton.

I sold my Dealing Account shares.

Bought back in then resold within my ISA at £21 then sold then rebought back at £19.80

Will relook again this week

Don’t really want to hold more US Listed shares in my accounts but also don’t want to be out of Carnival either

50% rise from here for 2026 to £30.

Hope everyone well.

And Bhants… thanks for missing me the most .!!

Off tomorrow on my five and a bit weeks away.

Flying to Singapore, staying for 4 nights, then onto Ovation of the Seas for 14 + 15 nights across Asia then Pacific crossing then back home on 16th May.

Predictions for when I return are £24.50 ish.

Haven't bothered doing the US vs UK aspects as the swings have been too violent to judge overnight anyway.

Hope everyone stays safe, and if you see on the news that China has attacked Taiwan, please think of me, as that's one of the ports.!

Have fun.!

Cinderbella.

For the 7th June sailing on Liberty, you are more than welcome to take advantage of my spare free Wifi.

Just let me know whether you want it or not. At least it will save you $100 buying for one device for the five nights.

Let me know back on here and when you're on, we'll meet on deck and I'll sign you in.... for free for the five nights.!

Merry Christmas.!

LOL.

I just happened to look at the London Stock Exchange website, and look at Sabien...

Look at the "Our Story" page....

It has a link to the company website........ that no longer exists......... LOL

Well, we are getting back close to the £22 mark, which is when I sell my Dealing Account shares at a 300% profit that I bought all the way back when at £5.50

and then that will be that......

I've sold everything else, and I just need to decide whether I want to deal with another US Company in my SIPP/ISA's or whether I say enough is enough with the additional foreign holdings.

I already own US shares and Japanese shares, but will Carnival out perform the likes of IAG, Wizz, Saga etc. etc.

Need to decide soon.!

Hamiltonbro

Damn.

I didn't realise.!

That means I own 1% of the company LOL.

Oil down 13%

US and UK futures up over 3%

Unfortunately for us, that also means that the USD/GBP is also up 2c, which takes 22p ish from our gain.

All I can say now is Make a F"kin Deal you crazy Ba*stards.

When will this thing go up.......

Also.

The Space X IPO.....

Investors also tracked corporate developments. Elon Musk’s SpaceX confidentially filed for a US initial public offering. Reports suggest a possible valuation of $1.75 trillion.

The news pushed interest in space companies. Rocket Lab, Planet Labs and Intuitive Machines rose earlier in the week. Globalstar shares jumped 11.6% after reports that Amazon is in talks to acquire the satellite company.

It's going up at long last, and I managed to sell some of the extra one's I bought to average down, because every time I bought it dropped.

With Artemis happening, Space is the new exciting thing, and hopefully we'll benefit over the coming months / years with a steady dramatic growth.

even my Virgin Galactic shares went up after their results, and hopefully they will launch later in 2026 as planned.... which will make this even more s e x y

Young.

Yes, I agree that there could well be different tranches, but noting that I wasn't talking about selling 60,000 shares, I was talking about 500 out of the 3 million plus shares, that would not need / should not need the 1st/2nd aspects.

Anyway, it was what I saw, live, hence why I now don't use low cost / low fee platforms.

When I move large volumes, eg when I sold my 60,000 carnival previously, I phoned in, paid the £15 fee and got the live spot prices.

The good thing is that everyone in this world is different, as if everyone was the same, the world would be a very boring place.!!!

Hudsteve.

The differences between my old HSBC and Fidelity were between 1p and 2p depending on the volumes on Carnival shares back in 2021.

I subsequently moved from Fidelity as well as my main holder as I then noticed that their prices were also slightly lower.

2p may not sound a lot, but all you is 500 shares, and that's a £10 loss on the price spread.

If you're going to do it, hopefully you have two live platforms. You need to make sure you press the quote button at the same time.

I was doing it on my PC and on my phone at exactly the same time, and I immediately called HSBC, and subsequently Fidelity to complain.

Obviously my complaint went nowhere. The price is the price they say.....!!!

Hudsteve.

Yes, T212's fee's are only 0.15% FX, but their spread is worse than other platforms.

I had T212, moved to HSBC, moved to Fidelity, and then moved again.

Fidelity's spread was very bad compared to other platforms.

Ironically, you don't actually realise it UNLESS you have more than one platform. Then, when you ask for a buy price or a sell price at the same time, with the same amount of shares, and the prices are different on two of your platforms, that's when the lightbulbs go off and you realise.

Low fee's mean bigger spreads.

From my many years experience owning non UK shares, unless the share is going to rise by A LOT, it really isn't worth owning.

The reasons are

1. You get a bigger spread on the buy/sell.

2. You get charged a non UK fee when you buy/sell. Some call it an FX fee, some call it a Non-UK fee etc. etc.

3. and this is the one that is important, you not only are fighting the SP movements, but also the Exchange movements.

Now, with CUK we already have to deal with the Exchange rate movements anyway, as the core price is CCL not CUK, and the $ is the price then converted back to GBP, but now add onto the fact that you will have an extra 1% or 2% charge, plus a different spread, and you'll need 2% to 3% just to breakeven.

Carnival will go up, but so will many many many other UK Stocks.

Just my two cents.

If you cruise on the Carnival group, keep the 100 shares, get the OBC every cruise, put them in the bottom draw, and that's it.

Can I trade overseas shares with Halifax?

Once the W-8BEN form has been registered on your account, you can place your international trade. Simply log in to your share dealing account, select dealing from the right hand menu and choose the Int'l tab. The first time you trade a NYSE agreement will pop up.

The $2.5bn has no end date, which means that it is linked to the overall objective, which is 2029.

They would do better cancelling the dividends, cancelling the share buy back and paying down the debt, as well as hedging their Oil purchases.!

Great results.

Expect next qtr to be even better as more people can't fly.!