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Always hard to interpret share buys via board members. Its rare to see individuals buying "real" shares with their own money in meaningful amounts.

Sometimes its done just to sure up confidence but mainly its these incentive plans. Even when it is their own money and few hundred k on shares from someone paid multi millions annually doesn't say much either .

In hindsight VC's sells at market tops didnt seem to bring forward much comment.

Well the placing details are now available on my broker corporate actions site. Decision and funds need sorting by 14th July and shares, if acquired will not be available until 23rd July.

I note the SP has popped up a tad but I cant see it rising much until the 14th.

Watch n Shoot! Watch n Shoot!

Watching and now less sure what to do. Cheeky limit order with a placing backstop or keep cash for market downturn or if the other issues go against me

Yesterdays comments seem to have gone missing. Was along the lines of ..... If you hold shares you can have 1 for every eight you hold guaranteed plus you can ask for extra via the Excess Application Facility. This isnt guaranteed and depends on how much investors want overall. Look out on your brokers website for details.

As expected the SP has dropped, almost to the placing price so you could grab some now and get what you want just for costs. Like others have now commented, this might hinder the placing. Still the share price should recover once the deal is done.

I did comment on deleted post that I thought they might have done this later in the year to avoid Brexit/New Gov issues. Although I think RGL mentioned that it was these that brought about the conditions for the pipeline in the first place. Its a bet that "Land for the many" and Brexit work out in investors favor.

SP down over 3% any particular reason why or is it cos its Friday

I know Bristol Uni was working on types of superconductor capacitors and looking for ways to increase storage and Im sure there will be others.

China has a bus system that uses them but they almost have to be charged at every bus stop and only allow short distance per charge. The advantage is quick charging that can be used over many cycles. More investigation is required to find practical uses for home/grid power storage.

I think there are some smaller versions that can be used for starting motors but wont run them continually.

I have concerns that, like many battery operated electrical items, that they will lose charge and almost stop, just when you need them, just like an old electric toothbrush or phone.

OK I am being flippant and Im sure that as time progresses that the tech will follow but when we are all electric for both cars and planes, we might have enough used batteries to build a superhighway bridge to the states.

Yes battery tech has to improve and we might be getting it in our houses to store our solar and wind soon too but has anyone one else thought about where to keep all those used batteries?

8 years @ 3.5% and fixed via hedging. Also added a bit more headroom adding to the previous sales.

Are they going to wait for Brexit and buy on any dip in the market and is that what shareholders are likely to do too?

They say they have a pipeline so expect some buying announcements soon.

Yep good news but I find some of the comments a bit out of context.

"The remaining lettings to new and existing tenants represent a rental uplift of 11.6%, providing a new headline rent of £443,379."

As the rent was in the £54.4 region, I take it that they are just talking about the buildings mentioned. No mention of the overall rent, also taking into account recent property sales. They also mention "Together these letting updates represent a headline rent of £545,654 across a total of 43,681 sq. ft."

So what is the real figure £545,654 or £443,379. Maybe I need to look a little closer, it might be rent free periods that account for the difference and these normally start at the beginning

Have you checked that its not the UT

"What has this to do with NG? Well, read some of the vile comments found on this board daily. Some people obviously do not like Mr Corbyn, so they denigrate him."
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Can you give examples of some of the "vile comments"? Yes I have seen some from people that dont like Corbyn but I must have missed all those daily ones that were vile. I suppose they could have been deleted, hence why I have missed them. Then again I have seen comments from those that dont like May. In fact it seems to be a national sport to bash politicians. It might be something to do with free speech.

We all have our opinions, some, based on holding this share. Personally I dont like the idea that this will be stolen from me by one side or that the other will interfere and make a false market. Yes I do want affordable, secure energy that not going to be switched off in the middle of watching my favorite TV show. Not much use sitting by a candle in the cold and dark thinking, Ill use some of my heating allowance towards one of those TV licence things for my 75th birthday.

Lets keep companies efficient, investing and sustainable for the benefit of all.

or is that H&L selling up for Woody. Although I thought he didn't hold Vod shares in his funds anymore.

He might have been proved right at this moment in time though so he was 5 years ahead of his time.

"Ergo I can only conclude that taxes on fuel in the UK are far higher than justified by the economic fundamentals."

It would have been much more if Labour's policy had been implemented with the green inflation busting taxes every year. I remember a petrol station having a Labour queue and Conservative queue with higher prices on the Labour side and everyone queuing for the cheaper petrol.

To be fair this government has frozen the tax for as far back as I can remember but as we move to electric cars there wont be any tax, too high or not, from petrol and what then. As alluded too, that tax will have to come from somewhere else or means less government spending in other departments.

So whilst I agree in principle that its too high, people still seem happy to pay or forced to pay but its generally accepted. Everyone has their own views on tax levels and where it should be spent. Like most Im happy for more taxes, that I personally dont have to pay and against those I do. So tax cuts for those with names ending in 557 and more tax for those ending in You! is fine by me
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Averages are just that. So 1.88Bn euros one year and 0.52Bn euros another. Keeps it within the normalized average. I suppose. if the deal goes through that cost will be spread over a much larger client base too. Might even have some cost savings filtering in by then anyway.

When the 27 in Europe unite it will mean only x2 spectrum licences will have to be bought unless Brexit goes wrong as hinted and no one in the UK (maybe less an independent Scotland) can afford to buy anything so no spectrum needed.

Dan, I did play in a band a bit back but we didnt get anywhere and more chance getting on Top of the Pops as a dancer in the background then being on stage. I could send you a 78 for your gramophone or are you up to FLAC.

Yep love live music and music in general. In fact I found the Night King music in Game of Thrones quite moving and has been on my playlist quite often recently. It nice when you find something that moves you. Not great for the gym though.

Back to Vodafone, good to get the spectrum but how does that fit with the average cost? I suspect its rising a tad. Although maybe it might be better for it to be seen as a sort of tax. Im sure the bean counters will be using it to off set something. I wonder what the governments would do if no one bid? They want the tech, the people want the tech but why should they get it for free?

I wont be rushing into 5G mainly cos its not going to be where I am for the majority of the time but who knows where that will be in a couple of years. How long till almost national coverage. Still Id be happy if they could keep my minimum speed guarantee. They got it working Monday and its been dropping since and its below this am. Maybe 5g will sort me out

Well I wont be getting an income boost in Aug as I didnt get any shares. Whilst it will take a couple of days for the tech guys to work out why, terms and conditions were mentioned.

So it looks like I will be conserving cash after all, once its returned. Still I did say it was only a half top up and that the yield wasnt as good as it has been and whats 7 pence (or a years divi) between friends.

I take heart that there will be another round later on and or await Brexit/Trump/Markets to aid me adding more of something later.

Gerry557, if GSk split, surely the share price can't perform as badly?

Well the stronger part might do better than the weaker part ...... until things change and the stringer part has a downturn. With no support it might not be good.

If it did split there might be calls to do a merger .... and the cycle continues. It seems a lot of effort thats not likely to prove much. Why cant the two halves just improve whilst reporting to one boss. What about the synergies, all those cost cuttings companies do when doing deals to get bigger.

I can see both sides to the argument and both ideas have worked previously but unsure how to value one above the other. As for Divis, its already quarterly and if you want more you can always buy something else. I suppose GSK could go monthly but the overall divi amount would remain the same. Why not just do one big divi instead?

If it splits which half would you keep?

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Your right, what do you play? Best you pop over and join our band. Bring your 5g phone and we can periscope it to all the other villages.

Just checked the HL website and its not there although maybe that is because its suspended rather than swapped for bad performance.

Yes I saw the director buys so scaling back doesn't sound like its an issue

Still not showing up for me though. Maybe it will sort itself out over the weekend unless there are lots of people with pencils sorting it all out at my cheappy broker.