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Mostly up/mixed closes for mrkts on Friday and over the week trended upwards despite the implementing of tariffs on China imports which could escalate alarmingly. The trade war with China has begun. China retaliated by slapping taxes on over 500 US goods. Add in all the other economic & political concerns its a heady brew of negatives the market is having to deal with anyone of which could trigger a huge mrkt correction....October anybody? The nos: G fell 37(-14%) on the wk and oil was off $2.13. Ftse (-19) -A/S (-15) - 250 (-213) S/c (+11) - Aim (+5). In N.Y the Dow added 185 - S&P (+42) -Nsdq (+178) & R2000 (+50) on back of 213k jobs being added. Gold closed $1255 - £$ 1.329 and for the B'conners $6605. Dow & ftse futures see a positive start to wk28 trading. Vix closed at 13.37. A reminder re: Vix the 'fear' index (bearish/bullish bets on the S&P). A no below 20 sees less volatility and a calmness in the markets, Vix is down c.15% this week well below the historical av of 19-20. This implies that investors worries over trade clashes damaging mrkts are ebbing. As you'd expect its a volatile index and can jump 30-50% in a session so essentially a snapshot of mrkt sentiment at any given moment. When stocks rise Vix falls and vice versa. Have a good wk/end all and Go Engerland!!

Excellent read..

Looks like my URU bet going the way of that quitter Sabalenka. Remind me never to bet her again....ever!!

Wow...such a 'naysayer' re G board your buying into the long-term story which to be fair you have supported from reading your reports if..... grudgingly! Make you right..As bloody usual I'm watching from the sidelines with no spare.....grrrr!!!

A battle Royal going on between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers..sorry that's a public school joke or in modern parlance buyers v sellers. Who will prevail?

And so say all of us....it's about leadership, hope, enterprise etc.. all things G men believe in...fear not a second coming is upon us.

Lots of posts gawn missing...if I didn't rate advfn as anything above effn useless I'd be over there talkin ollox. Afternoon all.

Other Kurd o....lies going through the mill...all the more reason to add imo...

Methinks unless your a dedicated short term merchant its best to ignore the present volatility. Have to say I would be adding at these silly prices so well done to those who have not been shaken out by the barrow boys and their mates rates city spivs. A by product of this is that postings increase considerably and to the good i might add! A month from now i'd give you decent odds were not stuck sub 250...and all this is just a bad dream. You can hold me to that.

Cheers Lem so thats a couple of quid not accounted for in the mrkt cap. Supposedly mrkts look 12-18 months ahead... (er not in our case). Jeez what poppycock!

Chronos the sp was 169 three months ago....think you meant ytd.

I can't agree marshall88 that the big rise in H1 was based on 'sweet nothings' more the mrkt waking up to the improved OP, cash flows and good CPR gas report. All positives imo. Where are the negatives to tank the sp from 290-230? If the bod are aware of any best tell us pronto!

Lem have you done any calcs on our 13tcf of raw Gas? From advfn BB revs of $400m pa are talked about at plateau phase.

It's Friday...sfa happens......

P****d orf!

FFS!!

Is the Cabinet meeting at Chequers today the moment that Theresa Maybe signs up to bind us by treaty to EU regs? Will Boris and cohorts sign up to collective responsibility or resign on principle which could be interpreted as calling for May to go. Any other cabinet resignations could force May to call for an election in a back me or sack me. I think the Brexiteers will tow the line looking after no 1.

The US has started to impose tariffs on Chinese imports. The Dow likes it called 40 up.

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