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the pound has been devaluing itself strongly over the past few weeks ... huge drops in cable and against the Euro .

Strange - no newsflow for the past few days.
May explain the drifting downwards in the price...
I think I'll hold on for now as there seems to be a net buying going on.... not that I think you can trust the Algos manipulating the price via lots of small deals

interesting spike to 138p at mid-day.

Vod must be the stock of choice for the speculators /hedge funds. its a risk free 5% a week raid . What commercial logic is there which allows the FCA and the LSE to tolerate these scalpers creating a false market in the share price ? why are the Pension Funds and Life Saving producers not raising any questions or asking for an investigation into these thieves who are putting serious investment in the Uk at risk?

If mc quarry is buying up billions worth of NGG assets , then how come the share price is staying flat?
It seems like GSK have the same experience.. no big rise in the sp.
Is this inertia down to a lack of ability of the BoD to do anything? Or is it the rule that the UK institutions just sit by and wait for a competing better offer to arrive ?

Apologies... I goofed.

I was hoping between screens and crossed over the GSK share price drop in the US ... misread it as VOD.
(Butter)fingers crossed and hoping VOD has a strong rally.

Uptrend? I wish

Vod slaughtered in US market today... expect down day Monday when London opens

I'll take Morgan Stanley's lower offer of £100 ... a win win

More good news and the sp goes down what is wrong with the markets

Hedgies fixing the prices - rotating the sectors and automatic trading , algos etc pushing the prices up and down by a few %ages. There is no intrinsic economic sense to the prices - its purely a gamblers paradise - there is no regulation or oversight in operation.

would someone reveal what data Jeffries use to whack this share? what makes them so omniscient ?
I guess it is flimsy nonsense and as papucel intimates, it is them trying to get in on the cheap.
the problem of course is that there is no fresh newsflow but all the Research companies herd together....
personally , I've just bought in some more but that is too often the kiss of death ...

Thanks for the link...multi million project coming up for what should be in place. For her to say that the silo culture is their operational method screams that they have been asleep at the wheel.
OMG ... For crying out loud , every knows that silo thinking is too narrow and even a luke warm C grade manager would not allow it . So why is GSK just waking up to that now?
The article is full of word salad and indicates that GSK is about to spend multi millions on consultants fees and endless staff hours on "getting it right first time" and ( insert your own buzz-words beloved of consultants).

the point I was trying to make is what are the Regulators doing to stop these huge swings down and up throughout the day. Clearly if we and all employeds are being encouraged / driven to invest in Pensions schemes then there needs to be clarity that the exchange is not being used as a device to plunder and that there is actual regulation.
The National Audit Office if given a brief to investigate whether there are shenanigans operating in the UK markets, would unearth the abundance of sharp practices that occur daily and without impunity.
eg: How difficult would it be to make it a legal requirement for all Fund Managers of Pension and Life Offices to report in their Annual Report, that the assets held on behalf of the policyholders are NOT being lent to short sellers either directly or indirectly thru the custodians ? this would stop the abuse that allows hedge funds and shorters to come in and operate willy nilly and decimate an orderly market.
Enough is enough

GSK and AZN announce new drugs breakthru yet their share price flatlines. EZJ announce a billion £Loss and the price rockets over 6%... why is there no regulation by the authority or comments from the large Pension Fund managers about the activities of the scalpers.
FWIW, anyone planning on investing their hard earned cash should be warned off and told that the UK stockmarket is for scalpers and after 20 years of annual investment admin fees and custody charges and inflation, the investor will be lucky to see any growth in their investment. Now that they gov have locked in the employed to be invested in the stockmarket via a pension fund , surely they have a duty to stop this plundering by large investment companies and hedge funds who provide no useful service to the UK economy. In fact the arbs etc can trade without even incurring stamp duty on their trades so the Treasury get nada either.
Day light theft and not a politician or a fund manager highlighting this disgrace.

AZN announce new drugs breakthru yet the price flatlines. EZJ announce a billion £Loss and the price rockets over 6%... why is there no regulation by the authority or comments from the large Pension Fund managers about the activities of the scalpers.
FWIW, anyone planning on investing their hard earned cash should be warned off and told that the UK stockmarket is for scalpers and after 20 years of annual investment admin fees and custody charges and inflation, the investor will be lucky to see any growth in their investment. Now that they gov have locked in the employed to be invested in the stockmarket via a pension fund , surely they have a duty to stop this plundering by large investment companies and hedge funds who provide no useful service to the UK economy. In fact the arbs etc can trade without even incurring stamp duty on their trades so the Treasury get nada either.
Day light theft and not a politician or a fund manager highlighting this disgrace.

I know it's the MM causing mischief but where is the logic in the drop in AZN share price . Surely new strains are what will give the company a boost in sales and profits?

It seems that if you are a profitable company but fail to hit some arbitrarily preset target figure, the share price is pounced on and the shareholders given a good thrashing.
If you are a failing company with massive losses but somehow reduce the losses in the current period while remaing loss making for the foreseeable future, the the market makers ramp the share price up on the results announcement.
Best thing is for the BoD to stop feeding the analysts any information and give low guidance . At least the private investors will be on an equal footing with the anal-ists

all this talk about a fraction of a cent ... really ! grow up
when the real prize should be about getting this share back up to a sensible price . If and when the Virgin- 3hree combination happens , then Vod shareholders will be selling out at a massive discount.

the BOD were sold a pup - they should have known better as the US is a graveyard for most UK companies. Still egos prevail.
Only hope now is for another takeover bid to emerge....

Dear ftseexplorer,
Simply write in their corporate team or search Google for various analysts reports. The budget for the separation
Is by no means a secret in fact they seem to be quite proud of the pending split which they have been crowing about for the past few years.

good that the SP has been tracking up for past few days ... if nothing else, feeling that this plodder is going to announce half decent results. if the vulture funds weren't circling I doubt the Board would even bother reporting.
Personally I cant see the justification for spending over a BILLION quid - not 900 million not a thousand but far in excess of a thousand million apparently splitting the Group. Who apart from the solicitors and the GS bankers of the world are going to receive this bunce?