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The London Stock Exchange Group said recent market volatility has resulted in record trading volumes and helped the exchange to deliver a 41% rise in operating profit in the six months ended on 30 September. The group is proposing a 33% hike in the dividend from 6p to 8p on the back of these impressive numbers.

it was on 8 October I ventured to suggest that Severstal would bid for HGM

http://www.citywire.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?VersionID=98636&re=2060&ea=165211&NewsPage=3

it was an auction, if you were looking at Barclays...a rather large buy went through and no doubt they wanted to get the price right

http://www.plusmarketsgroup.com/details.shtml?ISIN=AU000000GIP1/GBP/PLUS-exn

before news was released

FT: LONDON: Alliance & Leicester (rumours that the UK's smaller mortgage banks are paying well over interbank rates to raise short-term debt)

somone will be upset (I guess) a stop loss tripped a £1.1 million sell at 640 when it dipped...thats a hit of 9% from the sp before the rumour

I must confess to a 'punt' when it fell, I watched it to bottom out and move back, unfornately by the time I had opened up my online share trading software and got an offer the sp had risen to 6.58 (which I took), but with minimal spread these FTSE100 shares are becoming a bit of a sport...a 5% gain (I am now out) a couple of times a week is not so not to be sniffed at in current conditions. I did the same with XTA yesterday, buying before the close last night...unfortuately I was not patient enough with it today, and sold far too early. I must learn to trust the momentum of FTSE100 shares when the market has decided its the turn of a particular sector to 'gain'. XTA has been up and down like a 'yo yo' over the last few weeks.

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its the new game in the City...AL. have made it clear they not only have no funding worries but have been buying back shares. The sp dropped from 700 to 635, then it was brought up to 680 (before falling back to 675). Buying at 635 and selling at 675, is 6.39%. Not a fortune if one is just buying a few thousand, but milions of these shares are traded every day. Every week both banking and mining shares are subjected to this. Barclays had the rumour treatment recently. Yesterday XTA dropped 4% and rose back from the ashes today. This form of swing trading (with so many shares on loan) must be the only source of profit (for institutions able only to trade in FTSE100/250 shares) in an otherwise flat market.

within 30 minutes they dropped it 9% and brought it back...fun and profitable...

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just dropped 6%...

of course...the LSE is plagued with reporting problems...lets hope so

all very strange...my buy (made at 8.02 am) has not appeared yet...don't what game is being played here, but the sp is being held in check....maybe thios is one of those which will move later in the day...if at all

only if it goes up.....good luck...........

bought at 8.02 am, but my buy is not showing on L2...don't know what is happening with the MM (delayed reporting I guess)...maybe there is a big buy going through