The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
I'd suggest it was the various political figures and Billionaire investors who poisoned the UK political well. The LIB Dem's, Labour and SNP aided by John Bercow, a card carrying remainer who drove around in a car with a b0110ck5 to Brexit sticker in the car, tried to overturn the referendum result by any means; Billionaires like George Soros financed anti Brexit groups to march and heavily canvas politicians to ferment political instability.
Brexit in itself wasn't damaging, it was various powerful players who didn't like the result and wanted to stop it all costs, by fermenting political instability. I'd suggest these various anti Brexit players weakened the Government so much, they strengthened the hand of the EU negotiating team to ensure we got a bad deal, quite treacherous in my opinion.
It would also appear that the UK Government has no real power in this country, where the judges and foreign courts now seem to control UK policy by neutralising Government policies. It's about time they scrapped the House Of Lords and brought in proportional representation, the two party system no longer works and is unrepresentative of the majority view.
I would never vote in favour of rejoining the EU, since we'd get a rubbish deal and have to join the Euro; That said, UK politicians seem hell bent on ruining the country irrespective of us being in the EU.
They recently delisted from the NYSE, that tells you everything you need to know. I suspect impending litigation encouraged BT to delist there. In the US they litigate on anything and everything, US shareholders would take BT to the cleaners for various imaginary things impacting the share price.
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Neither were the Palestinians to be fair, Salman Abedi was of Libyan descent. One thing I would agree on though is that US and UK Middle East policies have wrought havoc in this country. It's about time we wound our necks in and accept that we're no longer a global power. It's an embarrassment to see our politicians trying to present us as something we're clearly not on the global stage, the only thing that supports is our nuclear capability and that's controlled by the US.
I doubt he'll look at unloading his BT investment unless he absolutely has too, and if he borrowed the money via Altice UK he may have to give any cash proceeds back to the creditors if he sells. Altice UK will be ringfenced from his other businesses, and as long as BT pays dividends Altice UK will likely have the interest on the bonds covered. I'm not an accountant and I haven't investigated the financing behind Altice UK's investment into BT, so I'm just guessing like others on here.
Correction:
"If you both grew your portfolio's to £50,000 each, your combined admin charges would total £150.00, going up to £300.00 if you subsequently grew the portfolios" to a £100,000 each, totaling £200,000.
As an example of what I'm talking about, the Halifax administration charge is £36.00 a year, so would add up to £72 for you and your wife no matter how large your portfolio is; At AJ Bell, for you and your wife, the total admin charge for portfolio's of just £25,000 in each of your ISA's would incur management charges of £37.50 each, totaling £75. If you both grew your portfolio's to £50,000 each, your combined admin charges would total £150.00, going up to £300.00 if you subsequently grew the portfolios to a total of £100,000.
Poker I don't like the way seekingalpha want my details, I assume this is the same?
https://investors.vodafone.com/sites/vodafone-ir/files/2024-02/vodafone-q3-fy24-trading-update-live-qa-transcript.pdf
https://investors.vodafone.com/sites/vodafone-ir/files/2024-03/Vodafone-Investor-Update-QA.pdf
And for people who can't read:
https://www.investis-live.com/vodafone/65b1392abacfa60c00c24f21/rgtjn
https://www.investis-live.com/vodafone/65e73dfddca7a6120026de81/qraa
Savage can you expand on what you mean? Me and my wife have share dealing ISA's and pay yearly administration charges, and commission fees on any trades, but that's it. The tax we save through using ISA's makes the administration and dealing commission charges pale into insignificance.
You can directly invest in stocks using ISA's, just like you can with a standard share dealing account, the only time it isn't worth using ISA's is if you're investments are small with any income and capital gains falling within the current allowances.
Derivatives and the various manufactured vehicles to short or bet on stocks rising are part of the big player manipulation toolbox, in my opinion; In addition there are various ways to trade Off Book (non price setting) and On Exchange (price setting).
The stock markets are a casino with the big players being the house, they can control order flows and use algo's to drive prices in whichever direction they want. I suspect the main reason various vested interests are campaigning to get rid of stamp duty, on UK trades, is because it adds to the cost of algorithmic high frequency trades where they have to move the price at least 0.5% before they can realise a profit. As an investor and not a trader, the 0.5% stamp duty is of little importance to me, since I invest for dividend returns over the longer term and the 0.5% is resolved with the first dividend payout. Personally I couldn't care less if the Government phase out stamp duty on stocks, as I don't see that raising prices; What I would like to see is ISA's only allowing UK listed stocks and various tax incentives to encourage Funds to invest in, and hold, UK listed stocks.
I assume this dividend cut thread is due to Uber Bear of Switzerland (UBS)? Polo Tang has had it in for BT for years.
In 2021 they said:
"The analysts said they think the pension deficit is likely to cap the dividend at 4p per share, versus the consensus estimate of 7.1p"
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/938589/sell-bt-says-ubs-on-risks-from-competiton-pension-deficit-and-spectrum-costs-938589.html
Amazingly he either appears to move the price, or has an uncanny knack of predicting falls in the price, but his reasons for explaining his position rarely come to pass.