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Yes, some interesting big buys today. Could indicate either buyer in the wingshas been working the price down to grab a deal, - though that's unlikely given how long it's being going down - or more likely someone's been trying to short and is now covering back. IN which they deserve all the squeezing the market can provide! If this little downtrip is over perhaps we can get back to where we belong, en route to a tenner.

Agree - this consistent decline when other property shares are doing very well is a complete mystery. OK so the divvi yields aren't that great, presumably that's a function of debt levels, but the capital value growth in a low interest environment should be more than enough to sustain WKP towards £10. The drift back to seven and a half is inexplicable.

Not sure 800 is feasible in the short term - i.e. this year. But even I can see 600+. It will be interesting to see some fresh research and new brokers' recommendations once they've been briefed on the post Bwin expectations. The big thing is the divvi reinstatement - when it comes and whether GVC can sustain the levels of payout from 2014-15. That might be optimistic but if they can generate a yield of above 5 per cent at 600p that'll do nicely.

Looks like 500 triggered some pent up profit-taking. Not me! GVC has a great track record of expansion by acquisition and is able to assimilate its acquisitions very quickly. That is yet to happen with Bwin. Plus we have a main market listing to bring in the funds. Definitely worth holding out for a reinstatement of the dividend and then we can all play a guessing game of what the next takeover target will be!

I very much hope so. The drop from almost £10 seems not to be justified by anything which has happened to WKP. UK property is one of the best performing sectors at the moment so why the selloff is a mystery. Although I will admit this has done very well for me over the last three years so perhaps there's some profit-taking going on. But where else would you put the cash right now!

C'mon guys, today's announcement about a distributed ledger API is a very smart move, and quick! Effectively it provides a connection today to potentially one of tomorrow's huge and game changing payments solutions. If I were an existing EPO customer I'd be very pleased EPO had this option. If I were not yet a customer this would provide a huge differentiator over other payment providers in the market. Really well done EPO for getting a tangible offering on DL in front of the market so quickly. Now what we need is to comercialise it!

Just checked, interims may not be due till March.

Like a lot of AIM stocks EPO is a growth potential story. There are signals in the raw numbers from 2014-15 which show a considerably higher rate of revenue increase than costs and indicate break-even is on the horizon. The nature of the business EPO is in also allows it to generate further revenue increases with lower incremental costs. The boss, Hank Uberoi, is ex Goldman Sachs and has repositioned EPO as a payments service provider to international banks. And finally, EPO is engaging with blockchain technology which could be one of the huge breakthrough technologies, particularly for international foreign currency payments, which is EPO's business area. We should be due a first half update next month I believe - watch that for more signals.

Interesting RNS today with Soc Gen cutting down from 9 per cent to under 5. That's a lot of stock to shift and it's probably what's been holding Man back recently. Cleared for recovery in 2016?

Well it is about time some of these presumably highly paid senior appointments brought in some business but whereas the USA's 13th largest bank is better than nothing it's not going to rock Earthport's world. So, in the words of Master O Twist - more please.

Panmure Gordon have issued four broker ratings this year for EPO at 61. Today's close at 28 is a two year low. Can somebody suggest an explanation?

I'm with dh42. I've been watching PPG for several months and made a foray into this stock at 1.25. About three weeks ago I posted a question on this board about why I should not trigger my stops at it was clearly struggling. The forthcoming auction was worth waiting for so I did. Big deal! I know something about energy markets but I think the thing which puts big investors off this stock is its complex holdings/ownership structure. There are too many ownership layers and minority holdings in this and that project. So please ramp it up boys and if I can get out at breakeven then I'm done.

I bought this at 1.35 recently as an alternative to Alkane, which Balfour Beatty bought out. I'm a big fan of standby power source companies, preferably those generating 'clean' power. PPG is already approaching my stops thanks to Paternoster. If Paternoster want to liquidate their remaining 12 p. c. at these low prices what's the point of holding this one?

Today's numbers provide the answer! Obviously some people got wind of these a couple of days ago. The negative forecast is worrying - seems to me it implies a dividend cut at year end. I'm under water on this stock but genuinely unsure whether to hold, top up or ditch. I'll probably hold.

Wonder why this share is drifting downwards unless it's just in sync with the rest of the market. The results showed real progress and there's a good prospect of a maiden profit soon. Oppenheimer's a consistent buyer but still she drifts! It's all very well to think top up opportunity but to my mind EPO should be well in the 40s and pushing towards 50 by now. Hope we don't have to wait for the half years before we get a lift!.

Very good results again from GVC. Increases in all key metrics all achieved while completing a tricky takeover of bwin. I take my hat off to this outfit, very well managed and very keen to look after its shareholders.

Some huge order going through today. Presumably big bets for the .5p per share that's guaranteed. I'm not sure I'd risk a million quid for that. Still, no white knight so it looks like that's that. It's been interesting. Some well informed lucid posters, some unintelligible comments and some plain daft. I've been a big fan of the ALK story ever since it divested Germany. I'm sorry to see it disappear so cheaply into Balfour Beatty as BB swamps it so no point buying that unless you like the rejuvenated infrastructure story - which could be OK. As for me I'm off to watch EPO, OXB, SBLM and FDI in reverse order of speculativeness. GLA.

Hi Wooly, I wondered were you were! Your previous posts were always well informed. I too reckon ALK was a 50p share as a baseline. This sale has come far too soon and I'm surprised there's no white knight counter bid here. The board seemed to be managing the firm very well and I couldn't see why they just wouldn't carry on doing more of the same into 2016-17 when UK energy supplies get really tight. Six days left before deadline though - it's not over till it's over!

I agree Jazz. We can take four million of exceptionals out of the costs and the core numbers look really good. I like the high percentage of transaction revenue in there too - that's recurring revenue. Project forward another year and EPO should be operating better than break-even and on the cusp of great things, especially if their Blockchain initiative takes off. Plenty of cash in there to support a divvi too!

Just look at the 6 month graph for OXB - spikes all over the place in the 8-10 range. It would be nice if this thing settled down to some placid steady growth towards 12-15p.