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DJ -94 (34,299)
SP -9 (4247)
NS -98 (14,030)
R2 +3 (1390)
WTI $72•71
10ytb 1•497%

Chip and related stocks saw the most interest in a quite morning's trading in Tokyo, the Nikkei up 90 earlier had slipped 100 near close. Investors are bouyed by the increasing covid rollout of vaccines during the State of Emergency lockdowns.

Energy stocks on the back of oil prices at 2 year highs were on investors buy lists along with Dept Stores. HK & SH are weaker with mixed nos in Pan Pacifica.

Latest:- Oil $74•63. Vix 17•02.
Gold $1861. Copper $4•324.
Palm $1022. Silver $27•875. $1•409. €1•161. FF +8. DF -38.
Morning all.

Hi rugs, welcome aboard the good Ship SS.Panthera.

Have to say a big shout out for the sterling work done by S-T and mickey1122 in keeping us all informed on PATs resources and prospects even if it's mostly all Greek to me. Any info over 2+2=4 and i shut down. I thought oil drilling data was complicated enough but that has nothing on Gold prospecting!

Whatever one doesn't have to be an expert to make money on stocks, despite Mining being well outside my competence circle, I hope my stock picking will make up for my lack of the latter.

Like JC-130 I need a decent win to make up for a couple of bad losses a few years ago, though I would swerve the hot tub and McLaren in favour of....... show me the money first!

DJ -86 (34,394)
SP +8 (4255) R
NS +130 (14,128) R
R2 -9 (1387)
WTI $71•08
10ytb 1•488%

A mixed picture in Asia this morning the Nikkei up 276 a 2 month high on back of gains in Property stocks and 2 record closes in the US, (500 & Nsdq) helping sentiment. HK & Shanghai were unimpressed both trading lower on local factors awaiting the Fed's monetary policy announcement on Wednesday for clues about the economic recovery. Pan Pacifics are mixed with a Australia up over 1%.

Latest: Oil $73•06. Vix 16•40.
Gold $1866. Copper $4•419.
Palm $1020. Silver $27•805.
$1•411. €1•164. FF+22. DF+30.
Morning all.

Well, S-T I sure won't be arguing your points which on the face of it looks exceptionally good. Atm the mrkt is ignoring the data, now they may know a lot more than you or me and are just accomodating the day traders, kinda like a good poker player slow playing his pocket aces. We shall see. I'm holding and watching.

Wait and get it cheaper imo...Sellers cont to have the upper hand and likely to be day traders which imo has been the best way of making money these last few years. Us longs have to suck up these volatile moves knowing down the road we might be quids in.
I sure don't want to be trading this in the short term.

Hold tight as long as you can sleep well tonight. My mate always advised me to hold stock at the 'sleep well' level and at 14, I'm fine with that.

One of pis bigest 'bug bares' is buy/sells being mis'reported.
I'm told a lot of trades done on mobs get mislaid or don't show up on lse. Can't swear to the accuracy of this but would not be surprised. Has anyone else heard this?

With 4 of the major Far Eastern bourses closed for holidays trading is light. The Nikkei is up 167 boosted by Tyre makers and Shipping Companies. Japanese Banks slipped back on US Treasury yields posting their bigest drop of the year, 11% last week. Investors are wary of taking big bets ahead of the Fed's 2 day monetary policy meet this week.

Gold prices weak of late and down 2% ytd usually do well when other investments and economic nos are flashing warning signs. Monthly consumer price indices in the US and UK jumped in April, rising at their fastest rate since 2009. Prices of Chinese goods leaving the factory have risen to a 3 year high. US Inflation is on the rise at an annual rate of 5% (May) and has been climbing steadily since Jan (1•4%) and prices of most things (energy, cars, food, gas, clothing etc..) are rising fast. Despite this Economists think its a temporary phase.

Gold mining companies have been popular with Fund Managers and have posted 26% gains since early March. With a weaker trend in USD and the massive US defecit investors look to Gold as a hedge. Countries will be loathe to weaken their currency as they are so indebted, thus Gold becomes a store of value despite producing no income, dividends or interest. Mrkt sentiment is the big driver here.

Latest:- Oil $73•03. Vix 15•6.
Gold $1864. Copper $4•527.
Silver $27•925. $1•411. €1•166
FF +20. DF +18.
Morning all.

Hi, Ed pretty sure most of us here have written off India and have little hope of ever being recompensed, well in my lifetime for sure, if Cairn is anything to go by! We have enuff prospects in WA to be going along with.....

Morning Troajan, cannot put all the nos in, as most people's eyes will glaze over, so have to be selective. The fewer the better.

DJ +13 (34,480)
SP +8 (4242) R
NS +38 (13,998)
R2 +14 (1396)
WTI $ 70•78
10ytb 1•453%

Oil:- $72•62. Vix 15•65.
Gold $1880. Copper $4•552.
Silver $28•050. $1•410. $1•165
Morning all.

A damp squib end to the weeks trading despite two positive RNS's. Who wants those when the mrkt ignores them. Whatever must'nt get too down hearted if the mrkt choose to blank the evidence so be it. We will live to fight another day.

Volumes today were well below the daily average, investor exhaustion no doubt and on the week some 3•1m were traded, no account of buys v sells data as this along with major shareholdings remain a State Secret punishable by death or a visit to the Tower.

Suffice to say the stock closed a tad higher but nothing you would be going out celebrating tonight. I think it's a result the sp didn't fall and will be returning to my local to watch the Euro footy and a swally or two...

Gold fell $16 to $1880 today, ($14 on the week) as London closed. So much for all the bullish noises about $2000 Gold. I like you will believe it when I see it. I had written 3 negative pieces on PAT which i scrubbed as they tend to the psychological raison d'etre to hold which I realised would be too 'off piste' to make much sense here. I even managed to confuse myself hence the scrub out.

Have a good wk/end all, onwards and upwards, someday Rodney we'll be millionaires.

Wk 23 close
Ftse +46 (7134)
All -2 (4044)
250 +125 (22,734)
S/C -4 (7295)
Aim -3 (1247)

Time to shake out some loose holders? Might get your punchy buy mickey1122....

For such a bull of PAT this price must look like several gift horses in the mouth!!

DJ +19 (34,466)
SP +20 (4239) R
NS +145 (13,960)
R2 -19 (1383)
WTI $70•07
10ytb 1•440%

US CPI (+0•6%), inflation (5%) & a small drop in jobless claims data pleased investors despite inflation hitting a 13 year high. The S&P 500 closing at a record. Asian mrkts are trading slightly better across the region with HK (+112) snapping a 6 day losing streak and only Shanghai and Jakarta in the red.

Latest:- Oil $72•29. Vix 16•10.
Gold $1903. Copper $4•494.
Silver $28•235. $1•418.€1•163.
FF +10. DF +6
Morning all.

Volume almost doubles today -v- yesterday, shares little moved though I suspect Sells outpaced Buys by some margin. Going into the last trading day total vol is 2,950,857 not as much as last week as vols were skewed by a near 3m sell but much improved on prev weeks.

Never been 100% sure that vols are the B all and end all of sp movements but certainly gives a flavour of investor sentiment, afterall good two-way turn'over is better than no turn'over at all even if it leads to no sp appreciation.

I expect S-T or the Prof to double down on today's RNS with an easier to understand interpretation of the RNS.
Evening all.

I'll double my bet, no way are we going to close at 15 and I'll give you 15 mid, not bid or ask, simply 15 mid price. Now the odds favour you.

The 'schoolboy' incident?.....pray tell Have your fun S-T but you know as well as I do that the bet is 15 close
I should have made that clear...so points to you, hell it could have briefly touched 16,17,18 and finished at 14.
I guess I should have been more explicit.

You'll be lucky! Like as if they don't know ffs! All part of the keep the buggers in the dark....

For sure S-T def not my style of investing. I may not be the Worlds greatest investor but I have stickability in spades, once owning a stock for 13 years which included a 16 month suspension. I came out smelling of Roses I can tell you! I look forward to the same here minus the suspension!

Not apparently invested S-T most definitely invested. I did mention I had acquired some 'leverage' which enabled me to top up, hence my nervousness regarding the short term direction of the sp. Long-term I'm not much worried as long as the mrkt is working sensibly.