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No instead it is owned by the Dirty Digger and its sole purpose is to promote his right-wing reactionary political views at whatever cost to the integrity of journalism and the erosion of trust in the political process. Taken overall I would happily pay double the current BBC license fee to prevent this low-grade gutter TV from polluting my living room. I would have thought that Fox was a little too left-wing for you and that Breitbart News was more your style?

Firstly, you are responding to the wrong post. Secondly it was the rise to over £6 that was the irrational move and hence my comment about the Sage of Omaha and his fear of the Bull market. If you were daft enough to buy in at the top when it was clearly unsustainable then more fool you! Oh and finally a market (or SP) "crash" does not take 6 months! Have you heard of a stop loss?

Fox News! Aren't they the lot with that dirty bugger who hasn't washed his own hands for 10 years? One day he will scratch his own ass taking a dump and die of septicemia. I bet President Fart would't even shake his paw and he looooves Fox News!

Shares in financial betting firm dive: Plus500 which sells contracts for difference that allow individuals to short sell shares without owning them dropped 35% saying new regulation on these derivatives has hit revenue. They are now forced to state on their website that "CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 80.6% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider." Needless to say this has acted as something of a deterrent to the punters!

You are right the elderly are ripped off by most industries because they cannot (for a wide variety of reasons) use the internet and this includes insurance. However, it would be incorrect to say that the latter industry is not being addressed by regulators see "The City regulator is to investigate how home and car insurance policies are priced after finding "hidden" discrimination between customers. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will study the scale of the issue, whom it affects, and possible solutions. Insurance customers may pay different prices depending on how loyal they are, their age, and whether they are online. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46042087

nuri123a If your losses on RMG have eradicated your entire profits on other stocks then I would guess that either one or all of the following applies:
1) You are way overweight on RMG and need to re-balance your portfolio.
2) You have not been investing in the stock market for very long (5 years or less)
3) You are prone to accentuate the negative
You should listen to good old Warren Buffet who fears the irrational Bull market far more than the occasional crash or correction in the indices. Share slumps are a good way to buy more shares in businesses that have a long term prospects. I would argue that RMG is just such a business, but if it went bust tomorrow it would not hit my portfolio more than 1.0% as I hold a wide range of equities over many industrial sectors both here and in the USA/EU.

People do not fail to change their energy deal because they are all stupid. A lot of these customers will be elderly and or disabled and housebound, have no internet access or internet banking. I deal with my 92 year old mother's accounts (bank and energy), but if you have no family able or willing to do this for you you can be stuck on a bad tarriff through no fault of your own.

Lower around my pad as employ 5 or 6 locals to keep the lawns green, the palm trees healthy and the pool clean :-)

Whats it to you? Got any skin in the game? It is the amount he has pumped in that is significant. Also he is the CEO not some non-exec or lesser flunky.

Have been in VOD since 2013 and would now be some 28% down if it had not been for the cash payment and my retention of the Verizon Coms shares given out on consolidation in 2014. Overall this keeps me 22% up over the five year hold. Not a great return but possibly worth staying in here and hoping for a revival?

Funny how these boards are clogged up with comments about oil minnows (UKOG, FOG etc). If they had just popped the money into RDSB a couple of years ago they would be minted! Never sell Shell!

Yo-Yo, see what I mean :-)

That is why we are down today.

Pretty meaningless if you ask me just means they have to shell out the fees, so more cash out of the door. Much as I applaud anyone trying to ease the suffering of cancer patients this looks like a typical case of spinning out a busted flush as long as possible (and drawing a nice fat salary) until finally admitting that there is nothing there and closing down. The founding academics and the hangers on all get their cash and the shareholders can go hang.

“Rolls-Royce has become in terms of conception a German organisation, so belonging to the EU,” a European official said. “By doing this their products continue to be European. If they had not done so, they would have been British products and in the case of a hard Brexit it would be much harder for such a product to accepted by third countries than a European one.” If I were sitting in Derby, looking at the job losses and seeing the creeping switch to Eurocentric operations I would be worried. Is this what "taking back control" was all about?

Phase1/2 is a long way from the clinic in terms of drug pipelines and crucially it is the phase 3 trial where the huge financial investment needs to be made and also where the majority of new drugs fail. Phase 1/2 is more about safety and optimal dosing than any real proof of efficacy using actual clinical endpoints and biomarkers.

I stand corrected as to his nationality (German not Swiss) but my reference to it was light-hearted anyway. The fact remains that a near £750M personal investment should be taken as a very serious indication of his perception of the business and its prospects. I am not quite down to an average of £2.85 but not too far off it and more than happy to hold.

When a company the size of VAL starts putting out meaningless RNS announcements like that of Jan 9th last " ValiRx endorses goverment's NHS strategy" you know that somewhere in a largely empty building and armed only with a kettle and teapot some numpty called Tarquin is trying desperately to provide evidence that his company still exists. Believe me this is a scenario repeated by the hundred in small biotechs who have claimed to be on the verge of finding a cure for cancer. Don't be swayed by the involvement of entities like CRT (who got their shares instead of a real cash milestone payment) as they back many more duds than winners, despite the glossy connections to CR-UK.

Au contraire mon cantankeroso the Trent 1000 news is most welcome given that further ETOPS restrictions will be coming into force on a subset of these engines effective Feb 4th 2019. Not a disaster I agree, but further inconvenience for operators while ongoing problems are addressed. As for job losses I note that RR continue to expand their workforce in Europe (Germany in particular) no cuts there! Brexit proofing?

has now pumped £747,660 of his own dosh into RMG stock since last November buying 262,000 shares at an average price of £2.85. I would take this as a major vote of confidence and the Swiss are rarely imprudent with their own cash. He is getting all the bad news out of the way while the Brexit shitstorm rages. I full expect a significant recovery in the SP over the next 12 months.