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Working from home will be a 'fad'. The greasy pole is in the workplace. Bosses instinctively don't trust homeworking and like to have their team about them, and people like to think they are indispensable.
Remote working also opens up the 'talent pool' so you are competing with people on Scottish Island, Cornish Cottages and Yachts on the Med or any other City. That'll depress salaries and prospects... Better pop into the office!

I don't know why the drop but I think there is a lot of PI's taking a punt on recovery stocks - leisure, travel, &etc. Once the the upside seems to have peaked, they'll disappear like 'snow aff a dyke'. Perhaps FGP looks too complicated to be 'locked in'.

Many thanks for all that discussion. It's good to get 'inside the head' of investments. It's not always obvious; bit like 'it's not arriving that's important, it's the journey (and the blind summits)

Anyone know the significance of the Astra RNS regarding EU allowing marketing of Tagrisso and the trials of Tagrisso in combination with Savolitnib that were in Phase III trials? The share price hasn't reacted and I thought it would

Just realised I am wrong. They sold their 49% to 'Endless'. Sorry

If Pfd is 'normalising' its gearing with the current good trading conditions and is looking to grow by acquisition, might buying back the exGore 51% of RHM not be an efficient way forward as RHM was already well integrated into the group. As far as I recall, they haven't sold their 49% (or am I wrong)

and 8 million under 16 in CA making 70% of pop

As of today, 31 million people have been vaccinated
12 million are under 16 and exempt from covid passport
4 million have had covid
That's nearly 70% of the population
Free testing is to be rolled
Things don't look so bad to me

I'm no expert but does it not work something like this - Daniel Wosner or someone close to him 'borrows' shares from Oasis's broker and sells them to broker 2. Come settlement day, he buys them back and returns them to Oasis broker. Assuming they rose in price, he trousers the difference? Meanwhile there is no change in position?

It could be that the disposal was due to internal re-balancing of their own portfolio. De-risking when too high a percentage was in held one equity (Pfd). The recent price rise in Pfd and the general fall in other equities could have caused this.

I think swapping from Gillette to Lidl own brand razors answers your He/She query...maybe not tho'.

Any thoughts on the Amazon on-line effect, especially regarding branded vs own brand and targeted on-line advertising, tracking browsing and purchase histories. (Never bought food on-line myself)

Stand by for a separate Hovis RNS in due course. Too big just to tag onto Q1 results

Howabout
a tax on, or restrictions of 'bad for you' foods like cakes and puddings
Contamination or food scare on a feedstock / product
Tesco get nasty
Industrial action; drivers, process workers...
Accounting scandal
Interruption in the supply of yellow and brown printing inks
Kallumama sells his holding causing a glut of shares and panic

Beanz means Heinz. And it does. If you buy any other brand of beans you have to qualify the choice with  'because the're cheaper' or 'they only had...'
You Hoover the floor with a Dyson
Walkers cheese & onion crisps are in a blue bag...so wrong
In Scotland a 'bottle of Ginger' is Barrs Irn Bru which outsells Coke
Coke is generic for cola, pepsi etc.
Premier have a load of brands that are synonymous with the products; Ambrosia, Birds, Oxo, Bisto, Hovis. That's what they have to capitalise on...but I'm a Chemist not a Marketing Executive. 

I suspect it should have read as an 8m buy and an 8m sell at the same price hence no price contribution but the computer algorithm assigns buy or sell automatically based on price and it chose buy

Many thanks for the explanation. The more I learn, the less I know! .

Don't understand the 16m share trades. Doesn't show on the trading volume figures. That's about 2% of the shares in circulation. No RNS. I think it's either a typo or there's some fiddling going on playing'if I were a rich man'

My guess is, not that Pfd has bad news, but vaccine etc is better news elsewhere. So sell Pfd on its high to catch the lift on Banks, Leisure, Public transport...then back to Pfd to carry on the journey. That's not my investment style, I'm staying here.

Q1 trading update on 29th July nerves? That's what recent confidence is based on. They should be good.