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Interactive Investor were pretty dismal when I was migrated over from The Share Centre, but in fairness they have improved since then. They recently reduced their trading charge to £5.99, which for the first trade per month is deducted from your £9.99 monthly fee. Overall, if you trade more than 2-3 times per month it's quite a good deal - and no limits, restrictions and fairly tight spreads... Frequently get good scores on comparison sites.

Très intéressant - espérons qu'il vole! ;-)

The only advice you should heed virtually unconditionally is to diversify your investments and keep your costs as low as possible.

Is it possible that both BvB's comments and the less than positive results forecast are tactics to keep the spotlight off the company in view of the previous furore when Q2 results were announced? It was front page news FFS. Imaginative accountants can massage the figures to bring any 'excess results' into play should the next few months get rocky. It's also completely possible that we have an inept BOD, accounting team and an overpaid, under-performing workforce..

For the record, Mother Theresa was exposed as a crook, with a bit of sadism thrown in for good measure. The late, great Christopher Hitchens 'looked behind the curtain'.

Come on y'all, check it out y'all
How low can you go?
Can you go down low?
All the way to the floor?
How low can you go?
Can you bring it to the top?
Like it never never stop?
Can you bring it to the top?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZv62ShoStY

Bringing it to the top is going to take a bit of time....

With no trial date now listed, could it not just mean that Judge Jockstrap has been advised that the parties have reached an out of court settlement in principle?

Nanonano - It wasn't my intention to imply that our case was in any way frivolous, merely that Samsung are bombarded so relentlessly that it's logical to assume that their business model makes a 'risk/reward' calculation on many of the commercial decisions they take with respect to patents.

KS, I too was contemplating the 'David and Goliath' nature of this case recently and did a bit of random 'Googling'. The steady onslaught of litigants is staggering to an outsider. This led me to the conclusion that not only must their in-house legal team be enormous (and exquisitely experienced), but infringing patents and then fighting any resulting litigation must be a costed part of their business plan. However, I do feel encouraged that the merit of our case has brought us this far...

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2022/01/133_322950.html

With respect to the article, the part that caught my attention concerned the distribution of any potential rewards. When Nanoco first came into my radar, that was precisely my main issue to consider. My conclusion was that discounting any catastrophic failure of the legal case, the returns ought to be sufficiently substantial as to allow both investment and reward to shareholders. I think it would be a major miscalculation by the BOD if they overlook the patience and dedication of shareholders, a considerable proportion of whom have invested solely on the strength of the legal case. A huge sell-off/profit take needs to be carefully considered and managed by the board in my view.

Still nothing from the dreadful Interactive Investor. Abysmal company...

...seem to know patent infringement when they see it!

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-jury-orders-meta-pay-005440538.html

Making fertiliser is a better use for Jim Beam White Label than drinking it...

Ukraine will require a complete Russian withdrawal (including Crimea), reparations and internationally observed justice for war crimes - or they will fight, and I agree with their attitude to unprovoked attacks. Bullies should never be appeased. I fully support continuing and even greater western assistance in both military and financial terms.

^ That's the family name, given names follow - reverse of the western convention.

^ That's the family name, given names follow.

Agreed, it's definitely a period of disquiet. My solution - I've made what I intend to be my final top-up. I've been watching for a couple of weeks to do that, missed a couple of temporary dips, not seen much reaction to the trial postponement and what with that tired old adage about weekends and public holidays...

I've already started looking at F-Type prices again ;)))))

Good game, good game...

^ For comments, discussion and opinions, there's pages of it here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6177271/ripple-energy-wind-farm

I haven't the time or patience to go though it carefully, but my first impression is that their model is a bit of a 'dog's dinner'. I've generally felt that projects like wind farms benefit from the economies of scale - but Ripple appear to be diversifying and expanding - and operating as a cooperative may have some benefits over PLC status, but again, that would require more analysis than I have time to conduct. I tend to agree with 'dadean' that with an energy company like BP (or Shell etc.), you get diversification, economies of scale and experience, which 'should' provide a good hedge against an uncertain future with respect to energy supplies.
I still think to myself every time I fill-up my V8 AMG (13mpg average according to the onboard computer) that my dividends from BP and Shell are subsidising this, even though I generally use Tesco Momentum :)