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fatprofits......Of course I am! However putting all of that to one side when it comes to investments............I would not touch it with yours. My money's on K3C a good solid Bolton-based Financial Services company. Where there's much there's brass as they say ooop north. Went in big at £1.56 last September now £3.75 and with (much) more to come. IMHO K3C will hit £4-£5 long before Timmy Wimmies beer barge turns around (or runs aground) :-)

Mr ,or Miss, Mrs, Ms Pedant........No idea mate I don't mix with the Spoons crowd so not au fait with the current vagaries of the UK benefits system. This review of my former local on the Stroud Green Rd sums up the JDW experience perfectly "It's a Wetherspoons pub, so you have to bear in mind that it's somewhere that sells cheap alcohol, which in turn doesn't always attract the best clientele.", which to be frank is about the best spin you could put on it or as another visitor said "I've been here twice. Both times, I believe, one of the regulars died. Well at least it looked and smelled that way."

Another business idea for Timmy Wimmy free of charge. His Blackburn pub is in the old Post Office, so why does he not just open up a PO counter in the pub? That way his punters could cash their gyro's and spend the money without even leaving the building! Genius.

I suppose he could always get the unemployed youth of the UK to work in his pubs....... but then if they are all working for him who would the customers be? Not really enough OAPs to go round!

I see Timmy Wimmy wants special work visas now so he can replace all the EU citizens who used to work in his ****-poor pubs and who have mainly either gone home or cannot get into the UK to work now. Which part of your high staff turnover, low wage and thus reliant on short-term EU labour business model did you think would survive Brexit then?…………… T**T

The way I read it OCDO has saved M&S from a really terrible set of numbers. Food up 7% largely due to the tie up, while clothing sales slid down 30%. They are flogging a dead horse with the latter. How many “new” approaches have now failed to turn it around? Get rid I say and concentrate on the grub.

Ian Cowie has a very balanced view on SMT and it comes down to how long you are prepared to wait for capital growth as opposed to how much income you need to see flowing in. In other words it depends how old you are and thus how long you can afford to wait while the fund managers adjust to the new market cycle in which tech stocks seem to be firmly out of favour while seeing very little by way of dividend income from your holding. https://www.ii.co.uk/analysis-commentary/ian-cowie-why-i-cant-quite-bring-myself-buy-scottish-mortgage-ii515499

Troll hunter 2: Monday 8.40am "Happy Monday everyone... looks set to rise today and through the week. Price 0.25p
Four days later price = 0.224...................... MINUS 10.4%
And they wonder why people are cynical about the UKOG United brigade :-)

M & S need to dump clothing as fast as they can. Its a mugs game and Marks have consistently failed to keep up with trends both in their offering and the way they market for years now. The fiscal and reputational drag on the business is incalculable. Get shot of the big, old and tired combined stores and concentrate on bright new food halls.

Smalltrader = Smallminded. Thank Christ you are not in charge of anything important. Go live in the USA if you love Trump so much

TH2 "So I guess people must feel they have better places to put their cash right now and come back towards the big drill day.
Where are they going though... what can return them cash so quickly?" This guy should do standup! Answer: anywhere but here mate. Try K3C for instance it has doubled since last November AND pays a generous divi. I could go on

Last August Tesco announced it was hiring 16000 extra staff just to cover online sales. This figure included 10,000 extra staff just to pick customers orders off the shelves in store and warehouses and our local Tesco is still after more part time minimum wage staff to do the same. It can work in the short term, but all this extra cost has to be a major drag on profits as it is so inefficient.

Methinks if you are relying on a magazine for your investment advice you should perhaps rethink? About as reliable as taking advice from a forum like this. You only have to look at the so-called expert picks each year and see how many of them actually do well........in my experience not that many.

With a spread at close to 10% this am while the SP spiked up, 10% gain is a forlorn hope on a day trade!

My only worry is that Ocado have tied in with a complete duffer in MKS for retail. The sooner the latter ditches its doomed attempt to compete on clothing which nobody wants to buy the better. Their brilliant solution (sell other brands of clothing) just shows how far up s**t creek their overall business model is. We have two MKS stores one food only (modern bright and always rammed) and one which is a traditional MKS store with a food hall tied to the rest of the non-selling lines (tired dark and empty). Wake up and smell the coffee!

Ignore. This eeejit was ramping Tekmar early January:
DOUBLE BAGGER Contract wins, hot sector (green renewables), Institutions loading up, potential takeover bid at this SP surely. What's not to like here?
Price then 67.50
price now 66.50
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Not sure UKOG qualifies for the term “investment” :-)

Seen it all before, so yawn and continue to hold. Nice fat divi this month as well. Those of us that have been in since sub £30 have no fears about the long term trajectory of AZN. If only the same could be said for GSK :-)

I would not hold my breath on the Falklands matey. Premier Oil suspended work there early 2020 and wrote off US$ 200 million of investment because later phases looked unlikely to happen. A final decision on whether to proceed won’t come until next year at the earliest and previous deadlines for final investment decisions have come and gone. The company (now merged with Chrysaor as Harbour) recently refused to comment on whether Falklands oil was at risk of turning into a “stranded asset.” Oh and B/E is $50 pb, but that does not take into account their debt :)

So what! The oil price could be $200 a barrel and it still won't make any difference to UKOG as it is not producing a significant amount of oil. Mind you it would push my RDSB/BP holdings onwards and upwards, which is wonderful! I suppose UKOG could always try exploration in the Falkland Islands for a punt :-)