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Well I was stalking NG for a while but thought I got in ahead of you but I could be wrong. Dare I suggest your daughter was wearing silly shoes? Most womens footwear is. Try hiking boots!! Sorry to here your ills Bonz it must be walking after all that Hocking icecream. Cant have a poor director now she might get more living in London

A double engine failure that, obviously has No bearing on the performance of the engines! Some might think that was a starting point. Although I suspect it has little to do with the engines but would like to know what officially happened to end my "suspicions". Why, general interest, discussed on here previously, the real cause and because I cant find it As Grayling points out (thanks) its still ongoing so that is likely why I cant find anything official.

Anyone heard any more on the twin engine failure outcome from Singapore Airlines Airbus A330-300. I'm struggling to find official info into suspected weather/icing incident?

but I'm away without losses (£105 doesn't count :) Well if I saw a £105 note on the street I would bend down to pick it up. You can always send me cheques for £105 a time that you dont need! I dont know where the "bottom" will be but I suspect that in 30 years time we should be better off even without reinvesting divi's. It time not timing in the market is a mantra. I also read that most PI loose money in the short term but 99% do ok over 10 years. If in that 10 years the price is lower, reinvest the divi if not hang onto the cash for when it is lower. Then you get a growing income stream and some dry powder. OK your not going to be rich tomorrow and that seems to be a problem for most. Ignore the SP and think about the company. Is the company OK? Will it be so in the future (airlines growing etc) Its traders who change the SP sometimes overpriced sometimes underpriced. Try and reinvest in the latter. Finally, the best investors were dead was another article worth a read. Investors who had passed away and accounts were dormant did better that those that were active. Doing nothing seems to work! Each to their own and I hope you do get the opportunity to get back in.

this weekend. So a spike should be expected. Sometimes I wish they would keep quiet and allow this thing to fall nicely. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/investing/article-3223564/MIDAS-SHARE-TIPS-Pennon-s-liquid-assets-dividends-pouring-in.html

Another power plant is shutting down and needs £200M invested to remain open but its not cost effective (or clean) 16% of capacity is now planned to be cut including the Ferrybridge closure. New clean energy can only provide 5% and cuts to subsidies look to slow that rate of growth. NG has to keep the lights on and sending workers home is part of that plan. Spare capacity is just 5% so spikes will rely on heavy industry having to switch off. Lets hope for a warm winter. Policy is playing apart, making the poor subsidise the rich by loading their bills with green taxes for high paying solar panels etc looks to be ending. Yet dirty energy is still closing and the green issues have not gone away. I suspect a review of policy is needed that joins things up a bit going forward. NG is in the middle and seems to be doing ok which ever way the wind blows or in the case of wind farms doesn't. It could be a case of just needing to be more careful with what we use and try and reduce needs going forward. LED lights, low power pcs, and going to bed at 6.30pm in winter. Baby boom autumn 16 then. . .

I take it that it will be nine months before your full term coaster

bullish divergences ... were you watching me on the MTB. I think that would be how you would describe my double take on noticing the bull in a field (whilst wearing a red jacket.) Fortunately the bridleway went down hill cos I dont think I could have out peddled him uphill. My escape over the gate was a little undignified but both bike and I survived unhurt

I would not be happy to accept a bid in that area but then again I want them to become more efficient and keep paying me divis ..... forever. So I suppose its how much I value those divis against a bird in the hand and all that. Maybe if the market has a melt down and I can find a better use for the capital instead but I suspect the timing wont work out like that. I think your yield is a bit out I have it less than 3% although I suppose it could be more depending on what they decide to actually pay. Methinks it will be the minimum they stated. Then if things are going well it can be upped rather than paying out more now only to say woops a tad later.. From your tone it sounds like you would take it if offered looks like you and Christo would both be happy. I dont like the idea of selling my pound coins for 50p. Think of the property goldy7.

Is that wishful thinking or have you seen some hacked accounts to back up your story. Even a 40% premium is less than your figure. Billionaires dont get to be err .... Billionaires by wasting money and spending it on things that are seen to be expensive. Maybe currently he can see some merit in the low SP and some value he can extract but as the price rises that slowly disappears. He has other interests so maybe some sort of tie up between them might work plus they own a lot of stores rather than rent . .

I dont know how low they will go but suspect that they will over swing before things get better. 85p area will give a 3.5% yield whilst you wait for a turnaround and merger. Still the competitors appear to be doing well and doing their own deals so some money can be made. Can LAD become a part of it? Some useful comments from actual users of both services, hopefully the management might cotton on. Still if the turnaround and cash generation remains on track, under a pound might seem a bargain if things take hold after all the SP is down here because things don't look good. The deal might improve things somewhat and whilst it will take time to get the debt under control it should result in an improvement for the SP.It looks like this will be a growth stock rather than a divi income for a few years.

jaskk, I doubt you could ramp something the size of this on here. There is a company that I dont like the management in and some have sold on their proposal. I want to be able to vote against. I cant do that if I sell. Perception is every thing. Some want SP to rise, Im after a divi that I can keep reinvesting if it gets cheaper assuming the company is still sound. Might be different if I was looking to sell. Our monkey brain dosent like us to loose which is why we dont sell our below water positions unless we put in pre fixed stops. Anyway most companies have good and bad times along with swinging market conditions which can swing the whole thing one way or the other.

I cant really answer your question but dropping below the 5% threshold ie holding 4.999% allows more anonymity as you dont have the same reporting procedures to uphold. Just a factor

Velo - I dont mind being a long term holder when there is a nice divi to pay you whilst you wait for blips to recover. In fact if your buying overall, shares getting cheaper is good! Although no one likes to see red on their portfolio. I am also a Tesco long term holder by your defination and the cut in divi hurts me more than the fall in SP and would continue to do so even if the SP rose considerably. I find it hard to identify when to sell shares so a divi is effectively automatic selling done for me.

Management say Total shareholder return (share price plus dividends) of 10.9%. Might have been when it was written but I suspect some of that has fallen away since. Still this was bought for a 6% rising divi and it had stumped up on that with the divi rising again. Management appear to be doing well out of the deal even if were doing only ok according to the published figures. Would be nice to see a set of management improve shareholder returns better than they do but that appears to be the norm these days. Have a look at VLK if you need to see some extremes in pushing rewards for management over shareholders.

Well the old talk became fact although its pushing back above this nice round number now. I thought it might go lower than it did. Well there is always next time.

I have been following this ill fated idea and noticed that many share holders have sold their shares in what appears to be a protest. I'm not sure what that achieves as you cant then vote against, although it doesn't look like this would matter. Maybe the time to sell is when it has reached that threshold as the SP will have risen and most likely be a lot weaker company as its taken decisions to get bonuses not shareholder value over the longer term. I hope Bornand's work comes off for all our sakes

..... seem to be reappearing for GSK. After all nothing has changed in the fundamentals. Even sentiment takes a tad longer to change.

So the divi has been rebased, sounds better than a cut and a placing is still "on the table" The divi cut, whilst not great news for a divi lover like myself might be a blessing in disguise. They are also looking at the return on the money I gave to them and are targeting an almost doubling whilst admitting that even at 10% is a tad low. Lots of the main metrics are poor but there is a glimmer of a silver lining. Cost cutting, risk reduction and more capital should help turn around the bank. Hopefully this can get back to a more stable, growing (including divi) more profitable bank. The market seems confused with the SP falling and rising and not knowing which way to flip flop. Some think the divi cut is good news, I have mixed feelings but expect the future to be better. Lets see what the management have to say first. The Q&A might be interesting. More kitchen sinks than a B&Q sale going on at the moment!

Twonko, The SP works independently from reality at times often on outlook and sentiment. The intrim divi, which has been rising over the years is now getting close to 30% more than when it first started and will soon come close to matching what was the total divi. Well it already has for 2006 but ....... I think you have made a mistake over the SP history and hopefully it will keep "splummeting" so I can buy some more on the cheap. I dont think the divi increase is desperation just continuing the upward trend and less volatile than Mr Market makes the SP. The expectation was for more hence the fall in SP today. Just need the Greeks and China to come back to the table and we might be quids in. I think I'm more in tune with Tune!