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Some roadblocks ahead for mrkts. Of most concern for UK pis is Brexit and the deal or no deal. Firstly a 'no deal' would be bad for sterling and equities with funds selling anything with UK plc attachments.
Mind you this would provide a great oppo to buy quality shares which in time will recover and gain over the years ahead. Mays deal would provide a temporary boost for shares should it be voted through.

Second red flag is the threat of a left wing loony Lab Govt. They have already said they will expropriate / confiscate 10% of every company. See what that would do to shares and mrkts!

Thirdly the BOE & ECB have overseen a sharp drop in the money supply from 7% to c.3%. Any sign that global growth is slowing markedly Banks will ease liquidity which will help mrkts. Should none of the above happen UK stocks are at historic lows on most valuation metrics.
Not sure how this would impact G but a China slowdown is not good for oil. Views are pretty divergent on oil prices into 2019, some see a rapid return to c. $70 others little more than current.
Morning all.

H...U been on the sauce?

London led higher by Miners and energy (though supermarkets remained unloved)...put on a strong display the 100 gaining 145 (6837) the 250 adding 357 (17796) and the All up 76 (3734). Sterling
closed at $1.272 awaiting the resumption of Parliament on Monday and the 'deal or no deal' Brexit debate.

Buyers were out in force on Wall panic buying at times on dovish comments from Fed Chair and a surprisingly better than expected jobs report (312000) v a consensus (180000) pointing to the robustness of the economy. Powell may be emboldened to keep to his rates strategy and ignore the manic depressive mrkts. Whatever all the Dows constituents gained pushing the index up 750 to (23433) the S&P up 84 (2532) and a FAANGs led rebound on the Nsdq up 275 to (6739), Intel up 6% & Apple +4%.
Advances led decliners by 10:1. While by no means out of the woods on a short 3 day (wk1) the indices are all up!

The nos: Oil $57.43. Gold $ 1286. Vix 22.
Coin $ 3824. £$ 1.272. £€ 1.118. $Y 6.87
MSCI 460.
Kurd o...lies led better by G up 17, Gkp up 9 & DNO + 1.79k (14.34).
Morning all.

Our revenues are tax free...seem to remember the KRG deduct at source?

Someone in pub pressed 'remember' me
and so far the post a message comes up straight away...so fingers crossed ..Cheers Hasiba.

Cheers Hasiba.im on a mob. Don't like this page at all.

For goodness sake can someone tell me how to post on this new system..taken me 20 mins to find a way...if i have to log in everytime forget it...cheers

Despite the carnage on Wall yesterday the ftse looks set for brighter opening c.50 up. Mrkts need to bed down for a few weeks before any discernable trend emerges. January ftse returns 0.87% and has risen 41 times v 28 lower closes... the 6th best month of the year. Apple is getting the blame for the tanking in stocks so poor old WB can't be a happy bunny this morning. Having swerved techs for years he broke a cardinal rule of his...twice! Once by buying 250m Apple's and secondly at near tops. Estimates he's $5bn in the hole on his purchases. Berkshire stock sank $17.000 c.6%.

Had a he'll of a job logging into this new site...why the change? Not sure this is fit for me...

Last comment on Hur & markt perception..do they know what their doing? Have to think the balance of 'probabilities' says they do....oh well some kind gent has topped up my pinkie...now guys thats a drink!! Afternoon G men.

Morning JFT.. well Hur potential valued way above G/Gkp for some reason I cannot fathom.... As you say Kurd o...lies are unloved and its been a longtermers nightmare of a share, unless your a sub 100 entrant, when you will be fed up of us lths bemoaning the state of play! He'll they think G is the best thing since....Hur...heh heh heh! I quit compounding my errors here sometime ago and have 'itched' to add for sometime, however the background keeps me away not only from oil but everything else. Holding cash even the peanuts int rate offered seems sensible atm. Back-aways I'd be in G pre the trading update which is surely going to be a gangbusters number when perhaps the mrkt will give us the 'thumbs up'.

Eyeing Dow futures (-c.400) trading at low for the session (-40) But the OP looking better up above $55. DNO 13.92k up7%. Gkp & G both down & the dynamic Hur up 6%....blimey only 6%...whatever next...?

Sod G they don't know what their doing...jeez I wish I was in Hur now thats my kind of o..lie does sfa worth bundles, no costs, etc.. A no brainer!

DNO extends cash offer for another 14 days having had acceptances for an extra 13.1%.

Far Eastern mrkts are lower across the region hit in the main by Apple's profit /sales warning. Tim Cook cited the slow down in China and said revs were likely to be c.9% ($5bn) lower in Q1 Apple stock closed at $146 (-$12). Far Eastern suppliers were hit by the news, techs in S.K. & Taiwan fell leaving the TAIEX & Kospi off c.0.65% & 0.55%. The Nikkei is closed, HK down 215 & SH unmoved. Earlier the Dow had its usual volatile session. The Dow had ranged from a high 23413 to 22929 low ending the day up 18 at 23346. The 500, Nsdq & R2 all closed with small gains. Apple news came after the mrkt had closed and a poor opening is a certainty. London stocks fell sharply at open the 100 off 100+ on China growth worries, weaker sterling but recovered throughout the session on a good couple of hours trading on Wall St. The 100 gained 6 to close at 6734 and the 250 put on 85 (17587). Mostly same'ol same'ol..... The nos: Oil $54.23. Gold $1292. Vix 23. £$ 1.255. £€1.104. $Y6.87 Coin $3848. FF -46. DF -400. Morning all. 3848.

Holders of two bid o...lies must be disappointed by the mrkt reaction to the bids. Faroe now 8 below the cash offer leads one to believe DNO might walk away and the pis hoping for a 25-30 jump in Ophir have to settle for a miserly 9-10. Bids don't always provide huge upsides in the shares especially in loss making debt carrying oil companies. Lets hope if G ever gets an offer we will be profitable and 100% debt free.

Usually 60 days prior to the release of the annual figures. I remember over at Gkp pis railed against the 'close period' lasting months on end. Wow...even worse than i thought. 10% pretty much guaranteed is a he'll of a result in this day and age. Wish I had the min $250k to have invested! How much is Murat on for goodness sake? In the 2017 Report all I could find was staff wages of $20.6m, zilch about bod remuneration.

2018. Ftse wk 1-4 154 loss. Dow wk 1-4 1430 gain. OilP wk 1-4 2$ gain. Only the first day so too early to tell how the nos will pan out.

Dow futures call a 500+ slump at open.

Ftse off 120...OP off $1.53... G off 8 happy New year guys...ffs!