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I'm not going to mention anything about politics since I've left, but obviously now i'm back we seem to have a jump coming....

We had an exceptional Cruise. The weather was very good considering it was early March.

I had $1,000 freeplay to pick up, and turned it into $3,200 and cashed out.

I was in the casino about an hour total for the cruise. Spent all the time with the wifey....!!!!

Home for just over 4 weeks before the big Singapore/Asia/Japan/Trans-Pacific cruise.......

UK Closed at $24.94

US Closed at $26.24

$1.30 UP After our close

97p UP After Our Close

$31.47 to $31.55.

8c or 6p gain after our close...

Young...

Unfortunately I am.!!!!

Yep, the cruise last week was cancelled... not our cruise, we were not planned to be on it..

It's Mrs Bots first Celebrity cruise, so hopefully it doesn't have a third incident.!

Don't miss me too much.!

Fly tomorrow to Athens, to get on Celebrity around Greek Islands on Friday.

Everyone, take care.!

Bhants.

We are purely riding the DOW which is unfortunate...

Yes, Any up/down movement with no news and no analyst intervention are the Auto-Bots doing their price manipulations.

The SOTU was.......amusing.........

UK Closed at $31.47

They really are pushing ........"Completion is likely to occur later in the first quarter of 2026."..........I guess later means end of March then.!

$31.18 to $31.47.

29c or 21.5p up after our close.

UK Closed at $31.18

Linda

The issue with NCL is their debt, basically NCL are in the same "boat" as Carnival was, but 3 years ago. Their debt however is massive compared to their revenue and the chances of them paying it down anytime soon is just not happening.

Additionally they, like Carnival, have Execution and Administration issues that needs resolving.

With that being said, we all know, we've all seen, we've all experienced massive jumps in share prices on days of results, as well as massive dives.....

So, in theory, no, we should not do well out of NCL, but who the hell knows really.!

Bhants.

We already got that uplift. That was on results day.

There is still a very slight difference, 0.5% to 1% ish maybe, and that may raise our price as and when.

The voting rights for us normal people are really immaterial.

Bob.

CCL US vs CUK will be the same. It's not currently, but when delisted, it will all be one.

The reality is, unfortunately, that it will not be worth holding larger volumes of carnival after delisting. Hold the 100 shares for your OBC benefits, but that's it.

Carnival will double over time, but so will many other travel shares, and there won't be fee's in IAG, Wizz, etc. etc. like there will be for Carnival.

Bobsbrollyman.

The price movements, the company, the benefits etc. all stay the same. There will still be the same type of share price movement ups/downs but in USD rather than GBP.

Today we have a GBP Price that is converted from the USD price using the relevant exchange rates at that given point in time, but when you buy and sell you are doing that in GBP rather than USD.

After the move to NYSE, it will mean that you will have the relevant platform you use (i.e. Fidelity, HL, Barclays etc.) exchange rate, and then you will have a foreign currency fee probably from the platform as well. Some platforms only allow phone call trading on foreign holdings, so the trading fee would be a lot more as well. If you can buy/sell online then obviously the trading fee will be the same as you have today.

One of the biggest changes is that you will not be able to trade "live prices" until 2.30pm, and if your platforms trading window is say from 9 to 6pm, you will only have 2.30pm to 6pm for any live trading........ this will make a huge difference to people in the UK. If you were to buy at say 9am, your buy would be at the offline rate rather than the live rate.

Hope that helps a bit.

$30.08 to $30.32 = 24c gain after our close

18p

CWWX...... That was my buy LOL

Bhants.

Honestly, I'm classing it as a win.

We hit mid £24's..

Now it's 30 for 26........£30 for 2026.......

UK Closed at $30.08

Hopefully now we're closed the US will gain like the do most of the time........... hopefully.........!!!!!!!

Forest.

"Geopolitical" concerns regarding Tariff's.... Unsure why due to the fact that the Supreme Court has removed is dummy out of the cot Tariff approach. He can't raise the current 15% anymore than it is, and every other tariff that will come in, within the next 4 to 6 months, will have to have serious justifications.

But. The EU has paused the agreement plus Iran still plodding on in the background plus latest figures show people have less money equals nobody is travelling anywhere, hence all travel drops....... it's just the AI's dumping the stock and pushing it down so they can buy in lower and make their monies for the week/month etc.

Aangus.

You needed to complete it prior to the dividend to my knowledge.

Maybe, just maybe, if you complete it now you might get away with it.

Without the W8BEN you will pay US tax even in your SIPP and ISA.