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Dunno. You should ask her.

Lower interest rates than anyone predicted and Barking has reiterated overweight 1640. Things moving in right direction...

Top girl, what a big buy. Such positivity and confidence is good to see.

China lowering interest rates would certainly help. Reported cyber breach is a worry though.

Barclays overweight target 110 seems to be the driver.

IMO divi covered. CITI today buy 2200.

Possibly acquiring Talktalk Consumer with 2.5mill customers. Would have thought BT would have made a move, no ?

Wordsmith final few years to production ? Heard that before a few years ago. Finnish battery tie up sounds good though.

Interesting comments from Pokerchips. Do you think the published control propaganda extends to PRU broker forecasts ? Sp 800 going nowhere, Barking forecast up from 1610 to 1640 !!!

New CEO from that fabled investment success story Credit Suisse. Farage must be glad he was debanked ...

Car mis-selling estimate for Lloyds is 1.5bill out of industry wide 2-8 bill. Heard Barclays name also in frame. No mention of NWG, yet. Hoping for best...

Jiffy were touting 150 last October.

Yup it's the NWG share sale.

Thought it would be all over by June but scurrilous rag suggests that sale in June will be for part not whole government holding, with overhang depressing sp ad infinitum ...

Rag rates NWG as Hold, citing uncertainty about who Hey Ho appoints as CEO and changing financial outlook with falling interest rates/NIM. Not all bad, seems NWG will benefit from structural hedge.

If scurrilous rag to be believed ...

Chancellor expected to launch share sale in June to have enough cash to bribe public and win election (help revive investment in the stock market and bolster public finances).

Proposed retail offering is undergoing market research to assess public attitude.

NWG shares were bought at 500p, current price 224p, value £20 bill.

Research group to provide feedback by 31 Jan, final report February 9.

Full steam ahead or emergency stop ?

Quote from Bimbo the Treasury Minister to Bloomburger. Reckons prospects for a retail sale are “looking good”, government is predicting a pickup in listing activity, and NWG sale will help catalyze “animal spirits” in the wider market !

Similarly, shares in ISA with annual allowance maxed out means you could not buy entitlement without flogging something else.

IMO they will give it away in order to win the election. Find out on March 6th (budget).

For the first time, there is actually a net outflow of funds from China by international investors. To counter this, HSBC and Standard Chartered have suddenly been granted top tier banking licenses by China after years of trying. IMO this bodes well for PRU's operations here.

Not Shakespeare, but Drahi. Its past the witching hour of Nov 24th, the genie is out of his bottle. Back in September, FT Lex article quoted analyst who believed that Drahi could takeover BT as leveraged buyout at 170. Since then, Saudi's have approached Drahi about his stake but no more has been heard. Any thoughts on what next ?

Scurrilous rumour has it there is a docudrama script going around entitled 'Mr Smith versus the Bank'. Mr Smith's first name is Nigel and we are all familiar with the plot ... Should make fantastic TV. Not sure what effect it will have on the sp.