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Some of the sub 390p purchases from last year..still holding a good amount..pleased to see £5..wd holders

From the Guardian "Caroline Abrahams, the charity director at Age UK, said: “Our initial estimate is that as many as 2 million pensioners who badly need the money to stay warm this winter will not receive it and will be in trouble as a result – yet at the other end of the spectrum well-off older people will scarcely notice the difference – a social injustice.”

She added: “Means-testing winter fuel payments this winter, with virtually no notice and no compensatory measures to protect poor and vulnerable pensioners, is the wrong policy decision, and one that will potentially jeopardise their health as well as their finances – the last thing they or the NHS needs.”.......,..it must be very disappointing and worrying for these elderly people..

Ps..not personally convinced ..thought the fed & bofe may act in unison in sept.... gla

"Traders are pricing in a near 60% chance that the British central bank will cut interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) to 5.0% on August 1, according to LSEG's interest rate probabilities app, and see rate cuts of 52 bps by the end of the year. 0#BOEWATCH

With the decision so finely balanced investors are nervous about trading sterling ahead of the decision.

"If we just go back week or two ago, the market was thinking 50:50 chance of a rate cut but economist surveys are more confident that there will be a move this week," said Jane Foley, head of FX strategy at Rabobank in London."........................................gla

..im sure labour/dwp will get round to signing them for pension credit in time for this winter ,?

...we should be getting more insight into the new govt plans re the economy/tax etc etc...clarity is very much needed ! imo...20 billion black hole ? ..political maneuvering... .who knows...public sector pay rises etc etc...will be interested in some of the details...gla.

..isn't that long ago we were getting abuse/ridiculed for adding in the low 40'S.....from the likes of fakey,imaright etc etc....gla

...a new economic calender set up now...absolutely no need....im 67 now and dont like change lol...end of rant...got various alerts on ..off to golf ...gla.

Wd TFE...im still sitting on £xx,xxx 21/5 divi (plus various others ) put a 56p bid in this morning and just seen i havent been filled..just cannot seem to make my mind up atm...like to see more of what R reeves etc etc have to say gl & atb

..Also im assuming the extra 5k allowance for a "UK shares only ISA" is also now firmly off the table...?...gla

..25th july.lloyds half years results...will be interested in the ongoing car finance situation (although i think its ridiculous ) ...sp should possibly be 62 -65p ..gla.

...will be interesting to see how all this develops..?...gla

CStrike sp showing down 20% on ig atm..

...maybe....gla

Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike

suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, impacting businesses globally.

"The outage resulted from an issue with the latest update, the company said. Crowdstrike

is now in the process of rolling back that update globally.

“CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor,” the company said in a recorded message.

....wondering how much the ridiculous car finance situation is holding back the sp atm..if at all ? 2-5p....gla..

Hi roofer ..i just wondered whether 225.47 was the low so far today....im looking to re invest the 6th june divi at some point ...gl

...up to 9.30am

?......tia

US looking to cut rates Sept.. Good chance we do the same..gl.