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Are you expecting a big director sale on Monday then?

On the plus side, all other markets were open on Friday (how did you manage to sell) and they all went up (a lot).
On the minus side, I'm expecting the Boris announcement later today to be a bit of a damp squib.

So, for tomorrow's share price direction, it's anybody's guess (as usual).

https://www.lse.co.uk/news/wrapup-fashion-shift-online-picks-up-even-as-stores-reopen-hfwdxy71zcs7lpv.html

Love Island cancelled for this year. Not great news for BooHoo.

Yeh, but let's be sensible, BooHoo unlikely to be of much interest to him.

I wonder if Smokee could be our "new" Charlotte?

I hope so.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/03/08/jcb-heir-wrightbus-owner-jo-bamfordwe-can-sell-hydrogen-bus/

Need to tell Boris. He's promised 4,000 more busses - why not get him to promise that they'll all be hydrogen powered.

That may be true but in order for it to succeed they need more hydrogen cars on the road and for that they need to publicise the fact that there is a good network of refueling stations.

I'd love to get a hydrogen car but I don't live in or visit London so it's simply not practical as things stand.

https://www.investorschampion.com/channel/blog/this-hydrogen-based-energy-company-is-powering-skywards

Only if they can buy without all the shops (as with Nasty Gal).

BARCLAYS RAISES BOOHOO TO 'OVERWEIGHT' ('EQUAL WEIGHT') - TARGET 380 PENCE

Sorry for the caps, I just cut and pasted.

Only a recent and fairly small holding here and would really like to get a hydrogen powered car (if there were only more refuelling places and more choice of vehicles).

Interesting video here and surely a big argument for why hydrogen is better than all electric as far as cars are concerened. You need to watch the first 13 minutes or so to get to the start of his "finding the electric recharge point" search. And then it also comes home just how long a recharge takes and I hadn't realised that different cars have different connectors - not much fun if you're half way to where you want to get to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEyfCcAbtKU

https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/shares/2020/01/28/itm-power-losses-widen-on-soaring-costs/

"Interesting to see NMC instigating an FBI investigation into Muddy Waters...."

Well not quite. NMC has employed a former director of the FBI to undertake a review. No FBI involvement.

Sorry. Got that one wrong.

Just a rumour but could be worth setting your alarm for tomorrow (Friday) morning.

Hargreaves: Boohoo’s road is paved with gold

Online fashion retailer Boohoo (BOO) is walking a road ‘paved with gold’ after upgrading guidance again, says Hargreaves Lansdown.

The group is expecting full-year revenue growth of between 40% and 42%, ahead of previous guidance of 33% to 38%, and reflecting record trading in the last four months of 2019.

Analyst Sophie Lund-Yates said the fashion group was ‘packing a serious punch’ in contrast to many traditional retailers.

It also has a ‘pocket of opportunity’ from the successful integration of its newly-acquired Coast and Karen Millen brands, which ‘widens its appeal’.

‘Boohoo’s operating model is well placed to keep up with the frantic pace of today’s fashion, but there are some risks involved with growing at such an advanced pace,’ said Lund-Yates.

‘We can’t fault Boohoo’s expansion efforts so far, but continued growth will require new infrastructure in the future, and that brings execution risk. For now though, the group’s walking a road paved with gold.’

Yes - John Lyttle has his eyes firmly on the prize (his stonking bonus if targets met).

BooHoo's Trading Update due tomorrow. Set your alarm.

Apple shares rallied 2 per cent to $309.63 per share yesterday on news that they had shipped 3.2 million iPhones to China in December, from 2.7 million this time last year, in preparation for the Lunar New Year holiday which starts on the 25th of this month.