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Not quite. the ladies wear the miniskirts alright- but underneath the Burka! I know I go there from time to time

Agreed said this a while back perfectly suited for PE Merge a couple of the big players gear up and refloat its after all no more than stacking up done bricks and putting a pointy bit on top before flogging it to a willing buyer. Hopefully it will happen one day as I Am getting tired of holding up the Vaseline

Not so sure wida saw lots of série 3 cars when I was in California and tbh looked pretty cool. More and more s types apoeadting in Kent and Sussex too so ..

Is going after the shorts. Shame redfern has not got the same stomach for a fight and is happy to see his share holders get screwed on a daily basis

Is going after the short selling bast&rfds they are getting absolutely canes now as he says he is tired of getting screwed by Wall Street snd take the company private ! Good man I say fry em fry em

webcast in 30 minutes. A great opportunity to have a go at the foot dragging, high rolling self serving BoD. Looking forward to hearing the main critics vent their spleens.

well fwiw we are in the process of completing an inverse head and shoulders pattern which may suggest selling is close to being exhausted. Who knows maybe the hedgies have made enough.. for now at least 30p or so?

The underlying pressure to build homes is not going to disappear next year. You only have to look at TW's ;latest presentation to see the price distribution of the house Tw is building and deduce that this sector is unlikely to face the same headwinds if any as we are currently seeing in the prime London and SE markets. as I have said many times before TW is in a very strong position as it took a massive hit against its Landbank 10 years ago now making the plots very attractive. in fact they have about £42 bn in forward revenue from the plots in the banks do the maths yourself but an operating margin of 25 to 30% would not seem unfeasible. The construction data released by IHS yesterday again singled out aa very strong month from the house building sector in the construction index. The fact that the sector plummets on the merest hint of any slowing but fails to react to any positive news suggest that it is being manipulated by hedge funds and the prop desk sidekicks. There are current very few industry sectors where margins are as rich as ours as is the ROCE. The house builders are still in a sweet spot which has defied detractors over the last 10 years when the likes of TW was within days of going bust.

Might the manipulation be an attempt by a pharma to break MTFB finacially and thus stop Iclaprim?

read well imo, more punchy. They need to bang the drum a little more especially now Vancomycin's ongoing effectiveness is beginning to be challenged. Patients will die because an alternative is waiting to be approved.

coverage today on BBC radio. growth of resistance to current AB's in hospitals probably Vancomycin.

lets hope the boys and girls at the FDA can smell the coffee and see that the effectiveness of the "gold standard" of last resort is beginning to fail.

It matters not the short selling hedge funds are controlling the price. we will go when they have made enough money

that we have a Governor heading up the BOE who cannot resist dabbling in the politics of this country. He is still espousing Project Fear ideology despite having been proved very wrong since we voted to get out. Productivity is c4ap but then it always has been. Inflation is low and is forecast to remain so while unemployment is at a record low. So with long term inflation even with sterling where it is now against the Euro , Dollar and Yen, inflation cannot get above 2% on a longer term outlook. Yet the man still smugly says that the mortgage affordability test which sets interest rates at 7% is a "good thing" he has just hiked the rate by 50% to 0.75%. HELLO? Its done nothing for sterling because it is not meaningful in everyday life, FGS the sugar tax is going to have more of impact on spending habits. as ever the press conference was a load of journos jockeying to asking dumb questions answered by a load of irrelevant guff. back to watching the Donald for us over here I fear.

Its in the telegraph as well. They focus on the hand sanitisers. So it may just be that our Useless AB ( judging from the SP) may yet have an application going forward. fancy that.

not invested why are you on our board? It was my impression that most on here held least 1 lloyds share. just curious not malicious

that we have given up everything we had gained on the back of some terrific numbers. Fundementals seem to count for very little as far as TW is concerned. It is true cash cow for the prop desks who are able to move the share price round at will to suit their respective trading positions in the full knowledge that Tw's BoD will do nothing to make this more difficult and anything that may benefit the ordinary shareholders in the company. When did Redfern last buy a decent amount of shares himself for example? Now I guess we are "fretting" over interest rates. Well if they do go up today it will be by 0.25% and then that will be it until maybe the middle or end of 2019. This will have no impact on the mortgage market whatsoever and certainly will have no impact on TW or its ability to sell homes. frustrating

one more thing - we had an opportunity to look at the US and follow what Paulson and Kashkari managed to do with TARP. But no our boys knew best did nt they?

not quite again The Govt coerced Lloy into buying HBOS then the Govt took a stake in the bank after the shareholders took a massive hit through a rights issue. The Govt than got paid handsomely for providing the "rescue facility " and eventually offloaded its holding to the private sector at or around about cost. Had the idiots art the Treasure BOE and FSA not forced Lloy to sell massive portfolio of debt at distressed prices it won have made really handsome profit on the deal. But then why wonder after all Gordon was in charge and he had form with selling assets at rock bottom prices ( gold reserves). Merv got a peerage, Adair Turner a knighthood. The banks should have been allowed to sort them selves out with HMG as guarantor the civil servants should have been kept miles away instead of being allowed to interfere. almost certainly we the nation lost a shed load of money but while the banks are not blameless there'll damage was done by the BOE and HMG. Don't always believe what you read especially if it is in the leftie press.

not quite. Institutional Investors demanded higher and higher yield and fully understood that higher yield meant higher risk. So debt was sold to homeowners in some instances regardless of their ability to pay. Properties were bought speculatively by flippers who sought to make a quick buck. Properties were bought off plan In Europe as well as the US and collateralised debt was rolled and rolled and sliced and sliced.Property prices started to fall and the flippers tried to get out making it worse. In the chaos everyone failed to account of the fact that for most homeowners the last thing they will walk away from is the roof over their heads. Banks panicked about the levels of bad debt and refused to lend to each other. regulators were slow to react to the crisis and in may instances through sheer incompetence made matters worse in forcing banks to write down the value debt to absurd values. The government far being the saviour of the banking industry was actually responsible for making matters considerable worse.