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"but the weakening dollar is causing havoc with the share price." With all the hedging I doubt it. They didn't gain on the fall and plan the fx rates out for long term planing.

will drop as its ex divi today and market had a down day too although this didn't suffer as bad. Will it drop even more? Futures say another down day so might be worth keeping an eye on this. So that is two negatives, whats the third?

"what company buys back its own shares if it has a cash flow problem? " Rolls Royce comes to mind and Im sure there are several others.

"The state owns 32 million shares in NG" Do they? I would be surprised. I wished they did own a large chunk and chunks of several others. Then we could pay less tax as funding would come from all the divis. They even get insider info re CLLN!

I have asked Debs investor relations to help out. I wonder how that will work out.

char, any reason you bought the A's and not the B's Thought you were a blighty tax payer and would avoid the withholding tax

Grey, yes well spread so a bump in the investing road rather than a full on collision. Questor says sell ULVR now. So should I follow his advice or continue to hold. I suppose I should be selling em to buy here then, if I believed him. Not sure I'm going to do that. Mainly as I want to increase holdings in both although not been able to add any ULVR as its always a tad expensive. Maybe it might come down a little. Oh and it pays to be well spread just in case I pick another munter or its gets nationalised. The running yield is good too and like this has been growing.

Playing catch up on my shares and note that the last trading update was only on playback for 7 days and has now disappeared. Cant find anything on Debs investor website or usual haunts such as Youtube. Anyone got any info where to find the Q&A post the update?

More income from the US if agreed and 9% return if it goes to plan. Does it ever go to plan?

Shippy, yes I'm compounding my compounds. Well most of them anyway. Not sure about this one now debt (and therefore costs) rising. Which they would of been anyway but now a double wammy. Hopefully SB investment produces better returns than the added costs but need to catch up on the last up date. I might eve n have a divi to collect

char333 you are correct and I have jumped the gun a tad. I took the info from the Vod investor relations website. It states the 2 February 2018 interim dividend 2018 payment date but the rest of the info is from March last year. Maybe I need to take more care reading or is it slightly poor design with my error management head on. http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/investors/shareholders/ordinary_shareholders/dividends.html Euro is 0.8828 today so might be even better than thought ................. but there is still time

taking a knock again and all the blame on Black Friday making us spend in Nov and not over Xmas I though Black Friday was a bit of a damp squid and retailers better planned as the bargains were few and far between and I had my eye on a few things. Shippy hope you got a nice flat screen for that caravan or should you be buying anchors

Its been falling for 3 years but there are pages of "chat" in that time

luddite, looks like a good decision atm. SP remained in the 13's on ex div and now in the 12's Is this the downward trend continuing or just following the market. Still its only a tenner to buy if you get options like the board!

I wont try and do any SP predictions but the divi is up 2.1% in � terms and due soon Add the few extra I bought in Feb last year, which show a 14% increase since buying(I will have to check my spreadsheet or is that down to FX) it should bode well for my increasing income goal. Divi steady whist the SP continues to move about

I would add � strength and bond proxy issues contributing to previous comments.

Grayling. Yes still in RR just waiting for the cash to improve in time although the divi is on the low side for most shares I like. was mulling Pru or L&G again for more divi Mixed bag as far as the "pension pot" goes some doing OK some doing a carillon like err my carillion! Still income was up (as planned) last year and I have added some more for this years pot. CNA just missed a top up. Still Questor thinks this is cheap. How good is Questor? I added before him lets hope we are both right although this is not up to full investment yet some maybe another dip.

Montecristo, There is no way Mr McDonnell will be paying a premium to investors! They will talk/regulate it down and down and then Railtrack it Cost = nowt

char333, I didn't think I was "trying" to control your opinion and thought you were having some good natured "bets" with others over where the SP was going. Currently downwards but its a bit like the tide and I suspect it will bob up and down for a while longer and have Springs and Neaps. Yes the MP's should carry out "our wishes" but as individuals with their own vote in the house they could vote with their conscience and give reasons why. I agree that this could lead to problems overall and would make a mockery of the system but the system also allows this to happen! Maybe we should just leave and work on a case of why we would be better of back in? There is more to news these days than the BBC. Socal media is another form although this can be corrupted or look at a narrow focus and miss the bigger picture. I agree that with 24Hr news sometimes the quality suffers just to be the first on the spot. Not sure I agree with controlling the people but maybe there needs to be some controls otherwise kids might not go to school or we stop taying or taxes etc Happy to read your opinions on Voda and the reasons why even if I do or do not agree, suppose that is what makes the market

"and in the unlikely event that it was renationalised shareholders would not suffer much, if at all because the price labour would have to pay would be more than the current share price" I think shareholders have already suffered from the threat. I cant see why a new government would pay more than the current SP. I suspect its going to be more like Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to pay the poor although I would see it more like Dick Turpin and whilst some will be "rich" I suspect many more might just be peoples pensions. I do agree with the rest of your sentiment and hopefully this will be my pension one day too