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This project is worth approx over 60m pounds, so no small beer, especially as this would be very much the pointer and gateway to a Nationwide rollout that KCOM would be a serious contender for. This would propel the SP and it looks like the market is waking up to this.

You missed the boat so you should move on unless you want to take on PRU in your portfolio. In that case, financials are under the cosh so wait for a bottom to form

I agree with you. The PRU has been a good play recently and this looks to be a good entry point which even if a further fall occurs tomorrow, will return shortly. They are simply under the cosh due to the general drop in the the markets and their SP will rise with the markets.

Having knowledge of the Satellite business overseas for a few years, I wonder how many people realise just how many cards SKY have outside of the UK? This is of course totally against their Terms and Conditions and to the anyone ringing up fom overseas, they will say that they cannot allow viewing. However, they have a number of "Agents" who they feed cards for overseas viewing to. These cards are closely monitored by theses "Agents" who feed them into the sytem to people who pay SKY or the Agent monthly but the card is registered to someone elses address. Additionally, these cards are the ones that have come from UK subscribers who have ended their contracts and who sent them back to SKY or to the Agent Installer. Brilliant really, as SKY can demonstrate that they are not losing sbscribers and maintain their revenue and at the same time, they can deny allowing cards to set up for overseas viewing. It is generally accepted that there are over 500,000 to 1,000,000 cards currently being used overseas and I wonder how that flies in the face of the contractural arrangements SKY has with their content providers and what is the legal position with regards to copyright? I also wonder what it would do to SKY's bottom line if it was challenged to truly stop overseas viewing (and the card cloning that also goes on?)

So, RBS recommend we sell STAN, HSBC and BARC and raise to hold LLOY do they? Smacks of a "bigging" up excercise for the part nationalised banks at the expense of the remaining independents. Also, I see no reason to move STAN to sell from hold as they have little exposure to the UK and US and have considerable influence and presence in the Middle and Far East which might actually be around when this is all over. The problem here is still the governments continued tinkering. If they want the banks to start lending again, then they will have to give them the confidence that the people they are going to lend to will not be taxed out of business the minute the economy improves. The best move they could make now is to halve corporation tax, abolish taxation at 20% on savings and dividends and reduce the civil service payroll by 50%. They could actually revert to the 17.5% VAT level which has patently proved to be a futile effort and finally get the hell out of Iraq and Afganistan with immediate effect.

what a 48 hours. I've bought and sold this twice today and made good money. As I have said before, my favourite day trade!

Glad you got it wildly wrong! BLT is always a good day trade and today has been a £2.00 bagger. Makes up for the banks!

I am still waiting to see where your doomsday prophesy is going to kick in. At the moment the share is acting as any normal ex-div defensive with a high income return and anyone who took your advice must be kicking themselves. I haven't yet found any broker who has matched your comments and I am of the opinion that this was a rather crude attempt to de-ramp which when you consider that the the majority shareholders would never even read the comments on this site, was a complete waste of time. I only hope that no small shareholders were persuaded by your comments.

They they go-off into the sunset. Followed your advice regarding ECM - Nice tip Mark! Thanks

I think your aritmetic may be a litle out here as there are various options and various outcomes depending on Tax Band, Capital Gains etc. From where I see it , you are going to be about £9.00 per thousand shares worse off after the event if you include the B share. A dip I agree, but not in the way you are describing it. Why don't you flesh it out with some facts like what brokers are giving this Doom scenario and perhaps, if what you say is the case, what is your fix?

I agree with Mark, these are a great vehicle to play the market. Less risky than Spread betting but I got some spotty oik in a nylon suit (well he sounded like that ) trying to get me to take his tips early on so pick your provider carefully. Who do you suggest Mark?

Seems we have a similar investment pattern. I reduced my holding in Barc the other day on the spike and used this to get some here. I only wish I had sold them all as they have been on a down ever since. The other attraction here is the dividend. I wonder if this has been shorted heavily and as such, they are bailing out before the dividend and also it is triple witching today.

These seem like good figures and I can't sit on the sidlines any longer at £3.32. got to have a few of these.

Anybody got an opinion here? This looks a tempting punt, especially as they seem to be able to hike their product's selling prices. The shares continue to drop and are far below the GS target of a few days ago.

The reason the share price has changed is that there was a share consolidation late last year where for every 20 old shares, 1 new share were issued. If you divide the current price by 20, it will give you a "sort of" comparison but there are other factors that have since affected this share.

Sell 31.75p as at 09:32.14 Buy 33.25p

Yep, I got that too. Not sure whether it was my trading platform or the stock but I was in the middle of a trade and JSK just nuked. Haven't got it back yet!

Heard that Vodafone is interested in making a bid. Anybody else got any info on this?

Small recovery from yesterday afternoon. Those of us that took advantage of the drop are showing a bit of profit. Hope you took advantage!

I agree that there is an "unethical" tag but there is with coal and oil (buying from Iran must rate as unethical!) However, a few windmills, solar panels and a wave machine might satisfy the twin set and sandals brigade but the Chinese, Indians and closer to home, the French and indeed ourselves need power and unless we are going to be totally reliant on unstable supplies from the like of the old USSR, then Nuclear is the only show in town. Patience is a virtue in this case. There is a shortage of Yellow Cake according to most articles I have seen. DYOR but I think we will be rewarded (If The Tories mention they are going to build new Nuclear Power Stations, then the Government will definately adopt them if the last few days are anything to go by!)