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I like backing losers, though i swerved that one! Southgate duly played like me missing the cut so he's off my list of potential ones to back. Coco is up against Halep today, so far she's bucked the odds and shown remarkable resilience. I hope she can keep it up.

The strong jobs report from the US has impacted Asian mrkts. The consensus being the Fed might delay the next rate cut. This prompted invstrs to sell stocks. SH led the fallers of 75 (2.5%) followed by HK down 473 (1.5%) and TK slipped 1% (205).

The nos: Oil $64.27 (-17c)
Gold $1401. Coin $ 11495.
Vix 13. £$ 1.252. £€ 1.115.
MSCI 525. FF -5. DF -108.

Morning all.

Go Netherland!!

What major announcement are you expecting H?

Most likley wait and see the direction of the sp. They have only spent £1.206m by my reckoning so plenty of ammo in the war chest. Most are undecided as to where the sp is headed, roughly half are sub 200 as are plus 200. They'll be back!

JL 196
Joe B 195
Prime 200
Hasiba 204
Bunks 206
Dodge 210
Without 214

Idea took a clobbering over the wk falling 13 or 8%. Best guess some profit taking after the run up from 137 end May. Vols and bargains have been higher than usual. Sub 140 would look to add.

Wk 27.

The nos: Oil $64.44.
Gold $1401. Coin $11588.
Vix 13.3. £$ 1.252. € 1.115
MSCI 530.

US stocks slipped into the red at close despite the jobs report deemed broadly positive. The economy added 224,000 jobs in June beating expectations by 60,000. This may have reduced the chances of a rate cut.
Unemployment ticked up to 3.7% with wages growth at 3.1% year on year. The ability to source jobs remains a bright spot among a mixed bag of economic data.
The 10yr T/Bill rose 9 basis yielding 2.04%. Crude (WTI) settled 0.8% lower at $57.73, Brent little moved on the wk at $64.44.
The Dow lost 44 (26922)
S&P down 5 (2990) & the Nsdq fell 8 (8162).

Yea 'hoped' was not the right adjective, 'target' would have been better. As to the downtrend that was lax of me as i meant since the grand old days of £10.
Oh to be back there! I'll try and be more precise next time.
The gout has disappeared for now and if past form is anything to go by I'm clear till the New Year.
Morning all.

Congrats Dodger!

It's been 9 trading days since the Board announced a buy back programme of the Co's shares (25/6). At the commencement date G stock stood at 177 giving the value of G at £494.3m.

The Co hoped to purchase up to 10% of the outstanding amounting to c. 27.924 shares to park in Treasury prior to G entering a closed period. Authority for this excercise was granted at the annual AGM.

So, where are we since 25/6? As of today's close (196) down 1p the total nos of shares re-bght amount to c 1.206m for a total consideration of c. £2.3m at an avc of 193.4p.

Over the last 9 days the mrkt cap of G has increased from £494m to £543m an increase of £49m or c.10% for an outlay 5% of of the gross increase in value.

Now that is a good result by any standard even if its not quite what we hoped for. However it's what happens in the coming days that matters, as ever dependent on the oil price.
Regardless I think the buy back was worth doing though i'm disappointed that only 1.2m were parked in Treasury over the period.
My gut feeling is the stock will revert to the long term down-trend for the foreseeable.

Kissing 200...ya never know. G back in picking up stock in last chance saloon...

That's the kiss of death Klassic...heh heh heh.

Prepare your speeches Dodger, Hasiba & Klassic.

Blimey £150 cheaper. That's gotta be a huge consideration.
Re the full english, point taken
Not worth the effort.

Nick 'bad boy' Kyrgios predictably got the 'bird' from a wildly partisan Nadal crowd yesterday.
Blind to the all too obvious time wasting tactics, his constant 'fiddling' with everything and anything
walking off the court to rapturous applause, the crowd forgave him. It must have driven Nick nuts.

I'm surprised he didn't jump the net and sort Nadal out, i bloody well would.
He's not everyone's cup of tea, a wasted one off talent for sure but I love the guy. He does not carry yardage charts or employ psychologists, masseurs, coaches, bag carriers or trainers. He does it all himself and does not give a ucfk. You gotta give him 10/10 for that.

That's excellent. We will get two views from opposite ends of Europe as it were. Be good to know if your experiences at EasyH are similar and would you reccomend EasyH as a place to stay? Do you think not providing dining is a drawback, especially a full 'English' at breakfast? Appreciate your views or any other reccomends...

Very quiet in Asia this morning after the record busting US mrkts continue to post all time highs.
Only HK is in the black up 47, TK & SH flat to lower by a few points. Pan Pacifics (Indonesia, S'pore, Malaya etc) tend to follow the Nikkei and are all in the red, Australia's ASX200 bucks the trend gaining 0.5% and nears the record high of (6851) set in 2007.

With little guidance from trade negotiations investors see signs that global monetary policy will become more stimulative in the months ahead as two 'easy money' Trump men have been elected to the Fed Advisory Board.
Until concrete proposals are agreed to settle this trade war mrkts will 'tred lower'. With no face- to- face meets arranged talks cont via the 'squawk box'.

London was little changed yesterday. Ftse (7604) All (4148) & Aim (917) slightly down, the 250 & small caps just in the black. Main talking points were JLRs switch to 'electric' cars saving thousands of jobs, while Bill Hill sheds 4500 staff on 800 'shop' closures due to the spin count lowered from £100 to £2 cratering profits and cash flows.
Serve'em right they have screwed punters for too long by cramping the sp, closing winning accounts and using penal long out of date rules. As Sads say 'when the fun stops, Stop'. Yea right! Good riddance.

Regardless, it's the stated aim to close all shops and drive customers on line.
Lots will not bother (preferring anonymity) and will use illegal local 'players' who deal strictly in cash.

The nos: Oil $63.22 at 04.53. WTI $ 56.72.
Gold $1420. Coin $ 11159 Vix 12. £$ 1.258. £€ 1.115. MSCI 531. FF u/c. DF -2.

Morning all.

Add another 117,540 shares bght today avc 197.35.

....Will commence a share buy back UP to $10m to July 5th the last day prior to the closed period for the HY results......

Clearly they could not achieve 10% of the outstanding in the time scale even if they wanted to, which I doubt
given the limited free float.
Nevertheless they have made a start and could resume buybacks if the price remains in their target spread.
If they think up to 250 is good value for owners expect a resumption as soon as....