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Let's think about this - 2 parties want control of a company. It's a hostile environment. Which way will the price move ?

I think you're obviously high

For what its worth, the BT bid changes everything IMHO. Names and secure incomes in the FTSE will get a big boost today - even this one, or maybe especially this one.

For what it's worth - my penny's worth. HL and the other self interesteds have been flogging the value of FT100 shares for their high dividends forever. My feeling has always been that's rubbish because Brexit and now Covid means earnings will fall so the divideneds will drop rather than the prices rise. this bid is a watershed. I think prestiege brands names and secure income firms will all get a boost from this (guess which category I think BT comes under LOL) and the FT100 will become a volatile index supported by takeover values and probabilities as the UK economy gradually goes down the tube. So the FT100 will behave more like AIM. So yes, this will fly this morning, probably re-trace (maybe all the way !), but eventually someone will buy itat a premium - and the other "infrastructure" shares - and the famous presiege names - and the UK will go to economic ruin. Have a nice day you'all !

Well said Mornington, just ride the wave and bank a bit as you go along...

Excellent gkb47 !

Only if they have British journalists present that don't work for a sold out agency and were paying attention to the news of the SNG001 result and have in their own mind compared the difference between 67% of exisitng mortality rates and 0% mortality rates and drawn the puzzling conclusion and and and.... The US is a closed shop - hadn't you figured that one. Now we find out if Boris is Trump's poodle !

I could cope with that...

Infection rate is already twice what it was a month ago and the germ magnets have not gone back to daily internship yet... Your hope has to be that people stop caring... a mindset even I find myself slipping into now...

The choice was always wether we alligned with the USA or Europe - who didn't understand that ? Who expected the USA to give us a better deal than Europe - ie who needed us more ?

Don't worry I think you will have a chance to buy later in the week even if we get a sympathy boom out of BT.A

The bottom line is they agree with us that this is going all the way back up - and then maybe some - so don't worry.

Well each to their own but I think you miss the point, I am sticking to my guns... always keep my holdings balanced... and that means having to sell rises and buy falls... but that's just taking advantage of the quantum fluctuations in sentiment. Also it means I won't be duped by ephemeral opinions and fads. Anyways I'm happy - 2 winning slices today - churned into 1 top up which should be higher end of day. Slowly but surely. Up 0.45% over entire portfolio and US open to come this afternoon.

What I do... I hav e the same value in all the shares I favour (which includes this one). If one goes up 10% - I either say that's that (very rare - back you winners) or sell 10% and give it to a 10% loser (if I decide it;s still going to make it). Alternatively I decided the loser is a loser, sell that as well, and buy what I think will be a winner with the 10+90%. SO I end up with the same number of shares all with the same level of investment, but I'm always selling high and buying low . My experience is that every time I switch from a share thinking its a goner, it comes back again after I;ve gone, butonce in a while I will be right. My experience is this does drive profit, and over time it does better than building risk in your best shares just to see them capitulate unexpectedly. However, your money and your choice. I do nto recommend trying to swin with the market swings or invest passively or go completely contrarian. Winners do tend to win and win - but always eventually lose. Once you are at >100% profit in any share, even complete failure will leave you in profit. If any share in your stable scores a hit - you win. And if its gold one day, oil the next, or houses the next, your in the money. So it keeps me happy. Remember as well that if a share goes down from 100 to 80 and back from 80 to 100 you may have lsot 20% - but then you gained 25%. As I say, it works for me.

Its not a great advert is it. I have taken to tracking prices on yahoo finance portfolios - which is a bit annoying when HL decut a fee for live proce streaming and these days they just can't get it right. I know there's a pandemic on but computers don't get viruses - oh wait ....

200 would be a nice leel to hit today...

And who wouldn't ?

Any rumours ?

Or suspension ?

And of course, somewhere in that is the reason gold and oil are contradictory investments (at least until most of the oil wells are shuttered and exploration has petered into nothing).