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I agree. It also depends on whether you have used up your tax free income in the different categories. If you think you will breach your CG tax free allowance, but have not divis, then it makes sense to use up your £2k tax free allowance on divis (in the uk)

Good Morning C7! I hope you enjoyed the sunrise! Ours is around 5:30, so I missed it as I slept in until 6am. There are a few more boats out on the loch today, including at list one small dinghy, which is appears to be zigzagging across as well as up and down the loch.

I've just had a look at that. To me it looks like lots of small trades by the same person/group of people to try and keep the share price level.

We shall have to wait and see.

Good point re TW.

I was a little taken aback by the comment that Scancell were jumping on a bandwagon. With over 100 vaccine projects world-wde, I thought it was wiser to wait for some fallout.

The initial promises of a vaccine by May/June seemed overly ambitions, and I was very concerned that J&J's target of September would also suffer a 6 month delay.

I'm not trying to depress anyone, but I reckon we have to think longer term in terms of effects. Getting direct UK Government funding would be fantastic, as would being on the Gates Foundation radar when the time is right. I doubt the former will happen.

The pump and dump band seem to targeting UK companies. I've seen the same thing happen with FTSE100 stocks too, though I'd rather not publish here the few that I've spotted as I'm sure there are many, many more.

As for the incestuous relationships between "investment firms" and the stocks they tip, I tend to use the numbers I can see.

‘Fast and accurate’ antibody test developed by Edinburgh scientists

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/fast-and-accurate-antibody-test-developed-edinburgh-scientists-2841264

It would be great if the UK Government actually bought stuff made by UK based firms.

"Researchers for blood-screening company Quotient have developed a new test to see if people may be immune to COVID-19 by spotting whether a person has developed antibodies to the disease.

Each serological screening machine has capacity for up to 3,000 tests a day and produces results in 35 minutes with 99.8 per cent accuracy, the firm said."

Which i should have added that I find curious as I've seen smaller amounts traded.

my minimum value trading appears to be £90....

Got some at 9, let's hope its not the kiss of death.

Mine's at 9.26

BB just tweeted their article.. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-01/vaccines-for-300-million-people-this-year-the-impossible-dream

XXX help us if Trump is really in charge of this.

I'm still rooting for J&J who have promised to make a vaccine available by September on a not for profit basis.

That often happens just about to go make a coffee myself.

If I had known that all I had to do to make the share price go up was to sell a small number last week, I would have sold fewer.... LOL

I'm being offered 9.06... [sad face]

BShorts, I can't find the one I read a few weeks ago.. However the economist did an article comparing excess deaths which is worth reading I think. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries

If I find it, I will post it. There were a number of them outlining the different hospital treatment protocols and of course the use of a CPAP machine (for sleep apnea) has been in the MSM press as being very useful to help keep patients breathing.

Thanks for that link - I've added it to my list of articles. I really must set up a Google alert for Scancell.

Me too..

I tend to look east at the opening of the day. If Asia is down, we rarely go up... I'd wait for further falls.

I've had the same issue.

The market maker I seem to have to go through quite often doesn't even appear in the list here.

It is good that the grassroots activism is forcing the Government's hand to do something, though I'm concerned that taxpayer's funded PPE firm was sold off. The Mills & Boons romanticised version of Johnson Covid experience is nothing like the horror stories which tens of thousands have not survived.

Even now we are are not testing in-bound travellers, putting the nation at risk over and over again.
As yet there is no evidence to support a view that there will be permanent immunity.