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Knocking $75....

Still the majors & others dilly dally. Good. Gonna cost you a hell of a lot more to take out our solid iis holders. Would they be interested sub 500?....not a chance!

Recommend stay in cash (185) well done missed that effn boat! Swapping sides every two bloody minutes....you'll get to look silly. Thank goodness I never take tips even from meself!

Where are the shorters?....lost your ollobcs...eh? No easy street for making money now is it?

Typical Aim trading day. Unless Idea gets off Aim and soon it will suffer these silly drops on zero vols.....great for the 2 minute wonder share geniuses but a complete waste of time for longs. Ignore!

Going up like the weather!

$74.15.

$80boe would mean c.$2.6m gross / extra per day. That's mucho extra $ over a year. Oil flirting sub $73 atm....

Morning comeonvog....Indeed as you know well the mrkt over reacts at times. Spo down in the low 30's was a great punt for the brave given the negative press n' all. I briefly thought of putting some back in the 40's but I've been around this stock all my life...or so it seems....so that's it for me unless I win the pools or something and I'd have wanted a wedge at 40+ to be even half interested! Have a smidge in Zam GNL and an Idea thats paid off just to keep the wheels turning. That blood thing went private and very much in Woodfords hands now as he owns near 70%....well bloody scripted imo. We await 2016 /2017 results!! Lse closed down the chat room but a few of us 'remainers' gather on ADVN. I seem to remember you being in at one time.....most likely had the good sense to bail. Gluck...

Techs pulled off days lows (1300) and headed North on Nsdq futures closing up 14 but still c.25% down ytd. Sage the top stock added 19 and Mfocus 1245 early on clawed back 35 to finish at 1280 down a couple. As expected Idea u/c.

The lowest inflation rate (2.5%) in 12 months pushed London stocks up across the board helped by the £$ rate / Oils and by mid day was up 56. This was good news for household budgets, so a rate rise next month may not be a given though most are looking at a min 0.25% hike. Companies having a good day were the miners on better metal prices Evraz, Rio Tinto, Antofagasta & Glencore....all big $ earners along with other miners BHB and Anglo American. Top ftse loser was BATs. Outside the ftse CYBG (Bank) fell 6% after saying it will set aside £350m for miss- sold PP insurances and Intu Property fell on news Hammerson was pulling their bid for the shopping centre owner. Among the techs Mfocus was heading south on profit taking and doubts about its future strategy but Sage bounced on bargain hunting and recent falls overdone. By close the ftse was up 91 (7317) it's best rise since the 165 in early April the 250 up183 (20012), A/S gained 47 (4032) and S/c up 47 (5778) and Aim stood pat (1031). In N.Y. the Dow jumped 40 but soon ran into profit taking and was on the back foot throughout the session. Energy stocks were a feature on the rising oil price and among banks M.Stanley surged on strong Q1 nos. IBM got a battering down c.8% as investors did not like the one off tax gain that flattered recent Q1. IBM stock price has declined 16/20 times the day following Q1 results. Southwest fell on the blown engine resulting in the tragic death of a passenger. That was its first casualty in 50 years of flying across the US. Weighed down by IBM fallout the Dow closed 38 lower (24748) but off session lows - the S&P eeked a small 2 points gain (2709) despite 6/11 sectors registering losses and the techs up 14 (7295) though falling back from 2pm to close.The nos: Oil $73.70 - Gold $ 1350 - Vix 15.60 - £$ 1.419 - £€ 1.147 - Bcon $7892 - Silv $17.20 - FF (+14) & DF (+52). G has some catching up to do today after a 'going nowhere' session yesterday or as some say a consolidation day....yea right! Given that oil has risen c.$6 since April 6 ($67) (think what that does to the bottom line!) & G was 179 -- id'a thunk G at 200+ would be nearer the mark! Still some consolation we aint gawn daaan, which we regularly did on any good news. Morning all.

I think the rot started almost as soon as i started buying. In Jan '14 the sp was over 1050 and fell in a straight line to c.65-70 a year or so ago. That massive destruction of shareholder value took just 2 years under Hayward's lax stewardship. Well we have crawled off the bottom, encouraging as that is - it's skant reward for those who bought up in the 600's plus. Those pis still with G wont be bemoaning their fate they knew the risks. I lost a pckt but im kinda used to that heh heh heh!

Pretty miserable performance by G this morning bouncing around 184-186. Recent $25.5m cash payment equates to c.6 pps which pretty much goes straight to the bottom line. I rarely get excited by payments these days as to date the KRG have been regular paymasters. Long may it continue. However a constant bugbear is why has no major snapped us up? Forget BP they are still at the shuffling papers from one committee to another stage. I'd much rather Shell had a look but we may be too small for them. A management buy out is not out of the question but I rather think the boat has long sailed and taken all the sub 100 with them.

End'17 cash $162m net debt $135m....

Better day on the tech front, both Mfocus and Sage gaining. An Up session on the Nsdq overnight should see further gains today for stocks and the t350....but not us.

$26.50m payment...

London turned blue just after 9.00am on good economic nos. Wage growth (2.8%) for the 3 months to end Feb climbed above inflation (2.7%) with unemployment falling by 16k to 1.42m the lowest nos since 1975 and now 32.6m are in work. A trend may be developing? £$ stocks were under pressure with falls seen in Reckitt Benkiser (broker downgrade), BAT & RR. Going up ABF (Primark) grew like for like sales 3% - a rare beacon of light on the High St. The AA expect to spend over a £1m defending the action brought by former boss Mackenzie sacked for gross misconduct. AA gained 11 to 135 a far cry from the 285 a year ago. Bigest faller of the day was Immupharma down c.130 to 20 at one stage on disappointing drug trial news of its flagship drug Lupuzor. Imm closed down 77% at 34. At close the ftse was up 28, gains on the 250 of 58 and s/cap 21 made for a satisfactory session despite Lloyds planning to lay off 1200 staff and closing c.50 branches. In N.Y. the Dow climbed from the bell up over 200 as investors cheered results from Goldman, Netflix (nos blew past Wall St forecasts) IBM & United Health along with positive economic data (housing starts up a seasonally adj 1.32m) and industrial production up 0.5%) added to the easing of Syria/Russia tensions pushed the Dow back into positive territory for the year. Although Big Blue closed up (2%) the co warned on mainframe sales slowing which will impact on future sales growth but a rising nos of investors are unhappy with the slow progress. The Dow rally (+213) closed at its highest level in a month dragging 11 S&P sectors higher and the techs gained 125, all 3 above their 50DMA (a short term directional gauge). Wall St gains spread to Asia early on the Nikkei up 281 on easing Korean Penninsula tensions and news of global economic growth of 3.9% boosted by emerging mrkts in '18/19 helped sentiment across the region. However HK and Shanghai are both well off morning highs. The nos: Oil $71.90 - Gold $1344 - Vix 15.25 - £$ 1.430 - £€ 1.155 - Bcon $8050- FF (+6) & DF (+2). Morning all.

Nil cost 130k G stock to MO under the share plan award....lucky him!

If you follow British Bulls (I don't) they have a sell recomend on G.

Wont be long before you have to flick through page after page of bloody adds nobody is interested in before you can read a post. Rapidly becoming intolerable.