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Most transactions are done off market nowadays in the so called "dark pools" where they are crossed between the buyers and sellers so it has become very difficult to get an accurate picture as to what the institutions are doing

Lti I share your frustration. That said the Buy back is peanuts in relation to the outstanding stock and the impact will be substantially reduced by the issue of new shares to remunerate staff. many are sick and tired of being screwed year in year out by the company's management. Institutions should start throwing their toys out of the pram as this is hurting everyone with a pension.

Its scant consolationI know, but the RTS is already down 45% so Vlad's mates are getting their proverbials handed back to them

More jam tomorrow. Another year of shafting the shareholders.

Perhaps a little more. We have had the prop desk shake out and no doubt they have taken a few for the book to let go first thing for a for maybe a 10p turn? Not bad for a week's work and certainly enough for a few jars In Leadenhall Market come Friday lunchtime.

The amounts LLoy will be buying back not withstanding that mots of the boughtbuac shares will be reallotted to staff are insignificant in relation to the number issued at the height of the financial crisis. It fools no one and especially not the institutional holders. Cash dividends are the only meaningful way now to reward the shareholders who have been promised jam tomorrow for almost the last 15 years.

Longer term the West needs to reduce its dependence on Russian oil and gas and as the current market is demonstrating OPEC is in no hurry to ride to the rescue. We have vast reserves of readily accessible shale gas and are already well vested in renewables and nuclear. With Nordsream now put on ice its little wonder that GAZP and ROSN are getting squeezed. The time has come to stop listening to the nimbies and put our own people and interests first.

Maybe next week. We have to get through the Options expiration nonsense on Friday first. FTSE will probably go nowhere till then

The RTS is up 5% so I guess FWIW Russian markets went too keen on a war with the west it would seem.

indeed! I remember when I just started out the "unwashed" liberated London from capitalists tried to lay siege to the Metals exchange. From memory the " boys had a lot of fun on their return from the pub. :)

Lazy and amateurish commentary from the do called market watchers this morning. Calling for a further drop egging on the spread betters. A quick look at the RTS should have told them what was going to happen today. Heho the City is full of wannabe clowns these days.” Small boys from market place “ as my colleagues in Nigeria used to say

Russia won't relish the combination of financially crippling sanctions and a possible military humiliation. The EU and Nato will need to present a united front as any division will be exploited. The Germans will be thinking gas first no doubt. You can't blame Russia for trying to flex its muscles given the lame fool currently residing in the WH. The world is always a more dangerous place when a liberal left Democrat gets in. For the record the Crimea was annexed under Obama and going back further Cuba under Kennedy. Diplomacy will more likely prevail and the Ukraine may opt to go the Sweden route in return for some commercial and political concessions from the Kemlin. A good excuse to smack the market down from its recent highs.

Of course! As far as the UK is concerned Russia is not a big supplier but of course it is to the EU so there will be pressure on the various Interconnectors. Also I seem to recall that volumes of gas in storage were not particularly high for his time of year. Oil prices too have an impact and with Biden in the WH, OPEC does not seem overly keen to ride to the rescue as they have done in past in response to the odd phone call.

Not so. The regulator wanted competition in the market offering customers c the opportunity to switch. In not properly vetting new entrants many were let in to the market without the necessary necessary wherewithal or experience or knowledge of hedging. It would seem
Many were no different then most CFD players or spread betters no taking account that events may well
Move against you when you least expect them. Secondly the acute shortage of natural gas is partly seasonal and partly geopolitical. Of course it throws into the shot relief the short sightedness of the I’ll educated main stream media to back the anti fracking lobby. Now we have to pay the Russian piper.

indeed so. But it is no good sitting on technological breakthroughs for the sake of it. In the case of POLX iyt can't be much more than a box ticking exercise and in the case of many companies listed on AIM regulatory delays are often the demise of the company as cash runs out

decide not decay ff

There is that. I am not convinced they don't act to protect their domestic companies' interests. They killed off Iclaprim wilfully destroying Motif Bio in the process and they killed off Elan a decade or so ago thereby helping Biogen secure a 100% of the MS drug Tysabri. As a non US innovator going the FDA route is more likely than not to end tears. We should regulate our own and let the US decay if they want the drug or not.

Don't know why POLX don't go to the MHRA and let the FDA do what it wants. I have never been convinced the FDA is up to the job it's supposed to be. Look at the mess they caused by approving drugs such as Fentanyl

Professionals are paid to see through the amateurish hysterical headlines coming from “financial “ negus outlets

The writing was on the wall when the Americans elected Biden. The debacle of Afghanistan provided an early confirmation that the roll of the US as peace keeper is over. As many opined at the time, the election of Biden has made the world a more dangerous place. The MSM is oddly silent on this.