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@lekka
What Darren means is, if you sell the stock, someone else buys it - either a market maker or someone else (I don't know if RMM is quote driven or order driven, someone help me out).
In that sense, buys and sells HAVE to be equal.
What people on here generally mean when they talk about buys and sells is CLIENT buys and sells. Assuming most of the trade in this thing is on RSP, any trade which lifts the RSP offer would be considered a client buy, and trades which hit the RSP bid would be client sells. In that sense, they don't have to be equal. Of course, every time a client buys from a mkt maker, the mkt maker sells the stock - so if you look at it like that, buys and sells are by definition the same.

Price has hardly moved today

Just to let people absorb the announcement? Although if that was the case it would make sense to suspend before the announcement, and I'm not sure they did that

Not in terms of building a voting stake. If they get the voting rights with the CFDs they have to declare the CFDs as though they owned the shares, as they did (declared, not owned). So their stake building is still visible.
I guess CFDs might allow them to build an econo.ic interest without troubling the market.

@BruceJamieson
1) Of course there's no evidence for this, it's laughable paranoid conspiracy theory nonsense
2) I'm 99% sure he was joking......

My interweb has an answer
WHO sanctioned Pfizer/Biontech on Dec 31st 2020, AZN in Feb this year.

Gently Tommy, you only gave it 7 mins

I don't think there's any such thing as "converting" CFDs in the ordinary way

Honestly chaps that’s not how it works.

I think it's the case that only the independent data monitoring board or whatever it's called can stop the study on grounds of jprofound efficacy, partly because they are the only people who can see the data. Maybe they don't think the data warrant it. I think the results that they can see would have to be pretty special to warrant stopping the trial before all the results and analysis are done.

Mind you I did join in with the teasing of the guy with the (I thought) doom laden risk factor questions……

I’m sometimes surprised at how hard people can jump on posters asking what seem to me to be perfectly reasonable questions.

"You can't rely on LSE for sells as they can be delayed up to 3 days."

As well as buys, obviously

What @apropos1 said

No.

I think that's very unlikely. Could you explain why you think that?

Wrong chat bro

Now up to 15.5, 9.1p. Microscopic volume but still mildly encouraged to see that it's not just PLUMMETING all the way back to where it was.

I’ve no experience of the situation but I would have thought the answer must be no. They are testing for safety and efficacy against Covid 19 and the fewer confusing factors there are the better.

One things for sure….if someone has inside knowledge of an impending announcement they aren’t covering their tracks very well….