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JFT...your gonna do yourself some damage with your constant harping on about the ***s poor pr of the bod. It is what it is. While I fully sympathise with your view I have moved on, G no longer the centre of my every breathing hour. We are but just side players with no say (outside of belly aching & the very occasional Hurrah!). Always been like this which is hard to take for long term loyal holders but ya gotta take the rough with the smooth....

1/3 On Teach repels boarders after vote tonight. 9/4 She loses. Boris 4/1 jnt fave with Tabby to be next PM.

That duplicitous son of a gun Gove backing Teach...yea in a secret ballot my arse...a real piece of work. Gonna be tough for her to survive unless she wins by 50 and with friends like Jove?.....

Called higher on Far Eastern advices the ftse opened up 35 at the bell helped by a weaker pound which boosted ftse $ earners. Ashtead (rental equipment) an early beneficiary after profits rose 19% and F/Y expected to beat forecasts, shares rose 57 to 1664. Miners were better the top riser MC Mining was up 37%. On the economic front UK employment rate was u/c at 4% in Oct and average earnings up 3% yoy underpinmed mrkts fretting about May cancelling the vote and swanning around European capitals to little effect. At mid session the ftse was over 100 up banking on Dow futures calling the Dow 200 better proving to be right. As it turned out the Dow opened strongly but London could not hold on to gains despite a better oil sector (BP +8, Shell up 23, Tull +8, Pmo + 2) The 100 closed up 85 (6807) well off days high of 6858. The local 250 pulled back 161 of yesterdays 352 losses to end at (17653) while the All added 43 for a 2 day gain of 5. The mrkt had closed before news that the Chairman of the 1922 committee had 'reportedly' rec'd 48 letters of no confidence in Mrs May from disgruntled Tories which could trigger more unrest and a poss leadership contest. In NY stocks opened strongly on renewed hopes on China talks and VP Liu He said tariffs on autos would be cut from 40% to 15% boosting FMC and GM. The Dow zipped up 368 to 24791 the days high but at 10.00am the mrkt swiftly turned down in a barrage of selling to a low of 24221 led lower by Boeing, Travellers, GSK & Phizer all c.1+%. Exxon & Chevron up c.0.59%. Political tensions and optimism on the economy cont to polarised investors actions with neither bulls or bears or should that be the 'machine's able to control mrkt direction for more than a day or two. The afternoon crowd pulled stocks out of a c.200 slumpfunk at 2.00pm to trade at 24550 before trimming gains to close down 53 at (24370) the 500 off just 1 & the Nsdq up 11 (7032) not helped by... ...Apple. The stock cont to be the most traded and has a disproportionate affect on mrkts due to its heavy weighting on the indices. Currently a Chinese court has ruled against Apple from selling its products in China in favour of Qualcomm. Apple uses Q technology and has been withholding royalties & continues to sell in China. Apple stock off c.0.60% to $168. The nos: Oil $60.84. Gold $1250. £$ 1.250. £€ 1.104. Coin $ 3335. $Y 6.886. MSCI 472. Vix 22. 350 OG 8608 (+100). FF +25. DF+ 173. Morning all.

May stuck in the backstop...getting out of her limo heh heh heh! Even Merks was wetting herself....

Futures (+243) dragging the ftse higher....Brexit...wot Brexit?

Teach pushes meaningful vote out to Jan 21st. We will all have given up the ghost by then.

'Fraid your right ocey.....all round shambollixces!

Corby has about as much chance as slim and none...and slim just left town.

Just listened to that 'arch fence sitter' Andrea Leadson not answer any question by Nick Ferrari on LBC, batting them back with generalisations and waffle. Ferrari you let the dreadful woman off. She would be better employed at home looking after the kids.

Forget article 50....wot abahht the 48 letters?

A recent survey of global investor opinion by Bank of America M. Lynch found that Britain was the most disliked region in the world. It's said that money managers would rather invest in the latest go-go crypto -currency than the UK. If that isn't a sign to pile into UK stocks I don't know what is. UK assets are at bargain basement levels. Check out the Cape ratio Yup, one of the cheapest in the world, half the level of the US, below Ger & France and Italy for gods sake! The 100 div yield is c.4% that's as high as ever I think, employment at record levels and money / investment continuing to pour in with output expanding slowly but ahead of Europe. The mrkts tell one story the economic fundamentals another. The choice is yours.

Teach on her way to our Euro Masters seeking a helping hand. She will be offered crumbs returning minus even a little white paper. She suffers humiliation upon humiliation yet sails resolutely on oblivious to the howls of rage from the Tory bully boys in form 3 (reserve). Have to say Teach is the only one with any balls, likely candidates Boris, Diddy, Rabby etc...sulking & skulking in dark corners plotting their next move in the school tuck shop. Has there ever been a worse bunch than these midget men guiding the country's destiny? I think not.

Doubt G closed at 187...last trade 172...nevertheless G down among the ne'er-do-wells and dogs of Aim. Seems it doesn't pay to be debt free, fcf positive, a rising barrellage and cash in bank all hated by the London mrkt. The destruction of shareholder value here is shocking and one might think the bod have acquiesced in the Cos fall from grace. I couldn't possibly comment. However that may be, i doubt there is little the board can say to halt the meltdown not just here but at Gkp & to a lesser extent DNO & others.. Good news has rarely been seen as a positive for Gs share price, well not that i can remember, so why should it change now? If you believe G is going to undergo a 'damascene' conversion you should be filling 'yer boots'. If not stay the he'll away. Remember the mrkt will not dance to the Companies tune, your tune or anybody else's. When sentiment is as bad as current the fight is on too many fronts for Joe public to prosper unless he's in a tracker or some such longterm mrkt fund...or a shorter who has used G as a pension plan for many years.

No mrkt report pressed a button and the bloody thing wiped out! So just the nos:- Oil $ 60.14. Gold $1251. Vix 23.6 £$ 1.258. £€ 1.108. Coin $3400. $Y 6.902. MSCI 470. 350 OG 8508 FF+43. DF-20. Morning all.

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So Teach having said this is the only and best vote she's gonna trot off to Brussels to seek another vote / concessions....ffs! Two and a half years and the Govt is still flaffing about. This ***k up totally down to Teacher.

Tomorrow's 'meaningful' vote pulled.

Asian mrkts closed mixed on Friday (2up, HK down) but little significant movement in the indices. However the US mrkts poor Fri performance (Dow off 4.5%) has impacted on the region at the start of wk 50. The Nikkei off 470, HK 400 & SH down 24. Sentiment already bruised by the Huwaei affair was not helped by data out of Beijing showing China exports had declined markedly in Nov as global demand weakened. Imports rose 3% to c.$187bn well lower than October's 20% surge. Pan Pacific mrkts followed the Street, China & the Huawei CFO arrest in Canada. Huawei is one of China's 'poster' Companies and has grown phenomenally this last decade. Sales up from $5bn to $80bn. It now outstrips Apple in shipment of mobs and outspends Google on R&D by some $4bn pa and it's not just mobiles they have a huge prescence in telephone communication networks worldwide, though banned in the US on security grounds. Other countries are now dancing to Trumps tunes, Australia, NZ & UK's BT will not use Huawei equipment and others are having their arms twisted by Uncle Sam to blank Huwaei. The CFO is heiress to the Huwaei business empire and faces extradition to the US on a number of unknown charges. She admits no wrongdoing and remains in custody pending a court hearing today. The nos: Oil $ 61.94. Gold $1254. £$ 1.274. £€ 1.115. Coin $3523. Vix 23. MSCI 474. FF -70, DF -166. The ftse opens at (6778), 910 down on last year, the Dow at (24389), 330 lower. Morning all.

Now I know I have been watching Colombo for the last 50 years and have seen every last one. Ooops 3.15pm USA today one pops up I never seen....I can't believe it!! Very happy days.