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Could some kind soul help me please as I’m recovering from illness. I hold my DSSmith shares in certificates- do I need to send these back? ALSO , the Scheme Document says the new IPS shares won’t be in certificated form but registered via something called “DRS”. How does that work please. 🙏 in anticipation.

THANKS JohnyChain- I should have checked first!

I’ve been out of touch. Could some kind and wise soul explain why price has dropped again so sharply today, I don’t see Barratt dropping by a similar amount. Thanks

My aunt Meg has a flutter on the stock markets from time to time. The other week when TW was about to touch £ 1 she said "That's ridiculously cheap, I'd get a few, they'll go up in a couple of months". So I got £5000 worth at 1.02. I see they're around £1.15 now. Now my aunt doesn't have an MBA, she knows nothing about Loan to asset ratios or cyclical charts like the clever fellows in the City with their Oxford degrees and striped suits. But I reckon she's done ok. Not for the first time either.

Been out of touch - could some kind soul tell me what's happened overnight?

Could some kind, enlightened soul tell me why it's started tumbling in the the last 2 days. Like a fool, I bought a few at 496 a few days ago.. :-(

Soo, had a chat with my broker - it's the Fed's anticipated hawkish stance on interest rates ( announcement imminent) for the medium term, that is adversely impacting tech stocks. Less to do with China which has already been priced in. Sorry about that drongo.

Dinger, or dingbat - The key word is "today" - the Chinese situation didn't implode on 22 Aug 2022 did it?

Down about 4% as I write

It's Naff all to with the fundamentals Godber, it's all to do with market sentiment. Towards £6 the week before- towards £9 today - what's changed?

or use the share certificates as lining paper for the walls as I'm painting th living room?

Grateful for enlightenment from the Wise Ones.
I've been put of touch...

#Lukeytukki" - "As long as it remains an isolated fight between Ukraine and Russia..." my observation is----------

When your neighbour's house catches fire , you're not going to be sitting pretty for very long....

I started this thread with the quote "Once the glory days are gone they rarely return".
By "glory days" I meant the past boom in the tech sector. Even when hostilities cease under some sort of deal, Russia will still be excluded from the global economy. Russia is a significant market for tech and other firms - until it is replaced by other markets (Asia??) SMT is unlikely to re- visit its glory days, though it may stage a mini recovery once a ceasefire is in place..

"Once the glory days are gone they rarely return".

Yes I know the Russian midget has attacked but why is SMT down over double the amount the FTSE/ Dow has fallen.? Could some clever chap answer that for me as I am obviously dumb as dumb for buying into this crock of sheeet.

We're doomed Captain Mainwaring

Well I'm the guy who came up with the tart's knickers thread and now I see some people are talking about "dripping" into them which is all a bit disconcerting. I wish I was as good at picking when to buy as I am with click bait headlines...

Just dipped below 10. But Apple had good results yesterday and Wall St sentiment on tech stocks apparently turned for the better. Let's hope some of it comes in the way of SMT!

'Cos they're down most of the time....