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Tetley

Respect. I had 2.34% down flash up but let see how it start and more important this . How we end the day. Hopefully Mr Trump got a golf match

Brussels hit list.. ( so far)

American yachts, tobacco ,orange juice ,Sweetcorn, rice, almonds, cranberries, iron, steel, aluminium, certain vehicles and clothes, including Harley Davidson motorcycles and Levi’s jeans,Non-alcoholic beer, door and window frames, kitchenware, poultry and sausages .

I think we all be needing Mr STP popcorn soon turning out to be quite a show...

bloom

respect..

you hitting the nail bang on the head with that one... who holds americas debt. that is the big one...

japan china uk etc... all the nations trump is ******* on...

Morning Bros

Triumph respect but China like the America is seeking global dominance. It using the soft power using its enormous work pool. industrial might and financial clout to do so..

Have a look around the globe and see where they are investing, building infrastructure etc.. This goes back a long way to projects like the Canada railways system which they rescued.

USA on the other hand has been busy destabalising anything they don't like. Bomb first negotiate afterwards and you think they are the good guys? Genocide is being committed in the middle east and it has their sticky prints all over it...

Mr Trrump plans not only put the companies at risk but whole countries. Singapore and others is acutely aware of this..

Markets turning into the day traders paradise...

Mr Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager overseeing £11.6 trillion in assets..

Who just in front of our own Mr LTI..

Anyways he says this...

"Most CEOs I talk to would say we are probably in recession right now.”

Most probably he would be right. If he don't know who does...?

Morning Bros..

Ummh.. Is it really Mr Trump hand on the rudder for all the tariffs or is it Mr Howard William Lutnick.. Now he is the smart cookie, so what he up to.

Surely he work this out.

Trade wars crush small economies and can damage badly bigger ones. layoffs. Benefits/ social security rises, tax revenues fall.. The death spiral...May even lead to wars. Has done before...

Are they really thinking is a simple matter of shifting manufacturing back to USA and all is rosy? If only thing that simple..

EU still yet to play its full hand... Uk not realizing pair or jokers not a poker hand...

Anthony

Respect.

For sure that is the case... At the one time Chinese goods cheap but not the best. This now changed Chinese goods often cheaper and better than what the West can make.. The car industry is an obvious one..

USA has hit the panic button... The debt mountain is out of control and the greenback has never looked sicker.

Typo on that one...

impatience the key .. Should be the patience...

Catch you all later

Bloom

You are a funny one..

Nothing emotional if your an importer / exporter or have a portfolio spread sheet in front of you ...

The numbers are plain to be seen..

People made a call on Mr Trump... In the short term many got it right but equally as it stand some got it wrong..

So we have new tax year. There will no doubt be the opportunities along the line so timing and impatience the key ..

Like all investing if you can set aside cash for the long term you can ride the ups and downs. If you planning for the short term then imo you has to start thinking properly...

Skier1

Respect.

Wise words but there are more than just the one T. i.e Tariffs.

We also has Trump

and Trust which is the most significant...

At the moment we stand here ..Regardless if the tariffs are removed overnight the damage has been done and trust destroyed...

Morning Bros..

Are we seeing this thing the second coming of the American empire or the death rattle of a failed monetary system..?

Good time to has the plenty of powder dry and we know who those is..

All eyes on Mr Buffet.. Respect to that man..

TAV

Respect

China tech... The one word... Shanghai motor show...

Morning bros..

Well lets see what happen with this one next week.

For sure at one time the USA had the pot of glue that held our defense financial and trading systems all in place. Now Trump has hidden it and things are very rapidly becoming unstuck..

Empire come and go and the American empire look like it going the way of many others.

Germany now weighing up repatriating 1200 tons of Gold from America. Trust has simply vanished.

Morning Bros...

So we has this...

Trump v Powell

Second round..

Trump determined to reduce the interest rates and get borrowing costs down for USA even if that means it seem crashing the markets ..

Powell wanting to keep the inflation genie in the bottle....

Lets see if he hides from or hands Mr Trump the screwpull.

Meanwhile in the Gulf has the USS Truman lost its E2 Hawk eye ? Looking like another carrier on route...

Grand national today so place your bets...

Plus is the end of the tax year and we start all over again... Wonder how many other families I will be paying for this year?

No worry

LTI be along soon to tell us which stocks go up ....!!!

Back to work for some...

Ha

missed the not out with that one..

When I put this "Imo we will see either events again"....

Should be reading imo we will NOT see either events again"..

But really who know...

One tariff that need putting in place PDQ..

2 million Euro tariff each on the export of French Dinghies. But not hold you breath..

Quick post...

Certainly volatile , so where it heading?. Many holes in the cheese lining up for some tough times ahead. .... But not all.

Yes we seen the gold upward momentum but no so the miners..In contrast...

From 1929 until January 1933, the shares of Homestake Mining, which was the largest gold producer in the United States, shot up 474%. Meanwhile, Dome Mines, Canada’s largest producer, went up 558%. During this same period, the Dow Jones took a beating, losing 73% of its value.

Imo we will see either events again...The markets be honest this one may have been due a correction...Also Trump is trying to offer the olive branch to his MAGA followers with promises of eliminating income taxes in more states..

So where we at ....Eight states, including New Hampshire, which repealed its interest and dividends tax in 2025, levy no individual income tax at all. US banks now that a different matter.. CREs, CLOs may all be sitting precariously on the balance sheet...

Back in Uk... Taxes continue to rise and Mrs Reeves plan of reducing significantly the cash ISA not looking such a good idea..

With that is all smoke and the mirrors. We has the choice 20K cash ISA or stock and shares or a mix of both. people have both the options so not sure what she talking about...

Morning Bros.

Tariffs or import duties are nothing new.. Goes back a long way this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tariffs_in_the_United_States

What is the problem is the over reliance on specific markets and the short term damage that can be inflicted by the amount and rapidity of the changes... There are lessons from history Mr trump need to be take on board.

In the EU Mr Draghi and Christine lagarde busy setting out plans for savings. Words such as the horizontal enabler sent the Internet into spin.. Confiscate savings assets. highly unlikely but certainly a push towards encouraging those assets for inward investment..

"The executive says some €10 trillion euros of citizens' savings are currently in low-yield savings accounts, and that €300 billion of those are invested in non-EU markets each year.

In a speech in Frankfurt on 6 March, the European Commissioner for Financial Services Maria Luís Albuquerque said, previewing the proposal: "Europeans are among the best savers in the world, yet they are not getting significant returns on their savings," she added. "This is simply not fair."

The establishment of a robust European Savings and Investments Union is considered pivotal for strengthening the bloc's competitiveness and freeing up investments in critical sectors, including in defence.

It could free capital for small and medium-sized business as well as larger enterprises to funnel more investments into strategic projects, including to ramp up the continent's defence industrial base.

"Both in Brussels and in Member States we need to find the instruments to channel the enormous amount of private savings to the investments we need, from energy to innovation, from industry to housing, from digital to space or defence," Albuquerque said.

In the Uk the Govt are feeding out intentions to alter cash ISAs for similar reasons...

Good thing / bad thing who know but certainly interesting and rapidly changing times. No wonder Gold having a good run...