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...Now! Did they need to say that Linda Cook is 64 years old ?!

I was invested in vanadium, possibly the best metal for grid storage battery, then as soon as the hype started price went crazy and now vanadium was out of the question, then another metal was nickel for battery ..again price went ballistic and nickel kind of been write off. You see where I am going with this.
Given that Li adoption has find traction and that Li prices are coming down, this is positive for Li but still the fact that there is not enough Li produced out there for forecast demand is a negative not a positive......plenty of other technologies out there.
CATL starting to produce sodium ion battery is not to be underestimated.......
IMO for the next 2/3 years Li still got a chance but I can see sodium ion battery making inroad in small low mileage car production in China in the near future.
Regardless of mid/long trends right now LCE price is still in downtrend anyone guess when it will stop and possibly rebound. Is never a good idea to be invested in a company which product it sells is in down trend.
Will look at lithium again once the price decline stops.

The reality is that a transition to intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, will require balancing energy supply when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining.
One of the best ways to do this is with massive battery stacks built alongside renewable power........====================
I don't know bankrupty.....I suppose one doesn't want to build too many battery storage where its capacity exceed renewable output. In the end Renew is still some 3% of global world energy supply, this after all the talking, mobilization, involvement from Gov. at many levels and financing.......Just imagine what is going to be needed to reach say..10% of world energy supply?
Just yesterday the new that Italy and Germany have blocked European plans to phase out combustion engine car production by 2035. And rightly so me I say, I would not be possible to stop producing petrol cars in little more than 10 years time. Decarbonization will happen but at a much slower pace than many people think....imo

Oil prices dropped early in the session by more than $2 per barrel after a media report said the UAE had held internal debates on leaving OPEC and pumping more oil. Two sources with direct knowledge told Reuters the report was "far from the truth".===========
Media reported....which media? Nobody knows....
Two sources.........which sources ? Nobody knows....
The financial circus will keep moving prices as they whish, volatility is the name of the game.
Just imagine the money they make on the spread of sp when panic sell and FOMO sets in...
For what you know, Reuters may even made up the whole story from scratch, if they only would at least name their sources..!

Sure is not all Brexit fault of current dire economic situations.
I am just wondering though if the shouted campaign on deregulation and freedom from Europe, if in the end was not for the benefit of the few.
Remember deregulation means no rules, normally in this environment only few thrive, usually the one in power...
Anyway without too Machiavellian thinking and conspiracy theories, I believe most of the misfortunes in political and economical decisions, happens mainly because of coincidences rather than conjectures...human is too stupid to be able to plan ahead even the most evil plots. lol

The Gov. set interest rate.
Money and rates is what banks sells, is their product.
How can Gov. and banks not be connected?
Banks are a proxy of Gov. democracies and capitalism, based on debit and interest rates a Ponzi scheme where last standing pay for all. A paradox of LLYD share price.
Much creative financial tinkering as occurred, to patch up a leaking ship that is capitalist economies based on debit and rates.
Did you see latest US 10-2 years Treasury Yield Spread?
https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/10-2-year-treasury-yield-spread

....moreover and it may just be a coincidence, but it seem to me that all the rules and regulations for a free market, based on competitions and fair trade, have gone down the toilet.
In the energy space these days is impossible to switch provider, even Ofgem website state this, meanwhile my current provider offers me a switch tariff doble the cost of current one.
We are virtually locked up with current energy providers and competition in this space is inexistent.....a proper cartel.
Supported and justified by ministers and BBC reporters.
Meanwhile even if wholesale energy prices are coming down, Ofgem household energy bills are forecast to go even higher (inexplicable)...but wait!
Enters house energy bill relief....due to expire in April, they are already contemplating to extend it for longer.
Imagine the profit energy providers are making, paying lower wholesale prices and passing on higher energy bills, subsidised by the Gov. hands out.
In stead of reopening competition among suppliers they have locked us in this subsidy scheme, I wonder if this was part of a Brexit master plan.

...by the way get ready, to reduce CO2 in Scotland the number of cows have to be reduced.
Chinese steaks I say.....

Hi bankrupty
you are welcomed and my compliments to your objective and honest initial post.
Indeed we get told a lot of BS some time unintentionally some time with a purpose...
Have to say Mark Mills simple logics to explain the problems with renewables and decarbonization, can not be escaped or denied.
I mean its a paradox to think that our nature is to pollute and destroy, but at the same we are able to restore and revert our actions. This fact is a physical condition of humanity, in the same way that the force of gravity rules the universe.
Who knows maybe one day we will find a risk free infinite form of energy.
Unfortunately the dogma of humanity and pollution, stretches in to many areas, including religion, technology, politics and socioeconomics...….you get an idea of how complex is to find a solution, based on organising, reasoning and logics.
It as been proved many times in experiments, that when an animal species thrive and become too dominant in any environment, it resolves to cannibalism and self destruction to level out and survive.
One may thing well....you are talking about animals not human been, but isn't it just because we consider our self a superior species, that we are in this mess?
Will the human race be able to organise themselves globally in order to maintain the balance, do we need a nuclear war or many environment disasters to level out?
Indeed is also down to perception, point of views and interest, if one can consider this an environment emergency or not.
Recent trends and investment on the renewable space one can't deny...came about also because many politicians around the world, needed to please voters.
I find it difficult to believe that US given the current economic situation in the west, will keep printing $ to sustain the decarbonization theme and also compete with China dominance in this space, .
The West motivations about renewables and decarbonization is an ideological one, the Chinese is an economical one, in mid/long terms there can be only one winner.
CATL has already started to produce sodium-ion batteries, if the decarb and renew themes are to go on, i can see Li been soon replaced by new techs...the west will always be behind the curve . Democracy is too complex and slow moving to be able to compete with authoritarian regimes.
Sorry for my drivels

Paultheman12
beside the advises on tax implication for ISA account( no capital gain and no dividend are taxable and you can invest/re-invest as much as you like)
Considering that you are new to investing, please let me give you a much more important advise..
Be really careful in trading stocks without any experience of the market, market sentiments and technical analyses...
Trading aways seem easy with the benefit of insight, but one you are doing it for real it become a completely different animal.
Is not a coincidence that only a small percentage of investors make money by trading.
Good luck

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

Silly me need more coffee
Thank you kammy1954 was making confusion between AIM and ISA, assuming that any share bought with ISA would be SD free.

Don't understand why HBR is not stamp duty free. Almost all shares bought with ISA these days are ST free.
I thing they (HBR) need to register for free ST....or something like that, not sure what my broker meant exactly, when I enquired about another share ....

Thanks kign...so annoying.

Hi do you pay Stam Duty to buy HBR on you ISA?

People in denial...of course is not because of Brexit. Noting is because of Brexit...lol
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But Alfonso Gálvez, who serves as general secretary of the Murcia branch of Asaja, Spain’s biggest farming association, said he was puzzled by the media talk of weather-induced shortages.
“I’ve seen these articles but I don’t understand why they’re talking about shortages here,” he said. “Things are normal so far this season so I don’t know if it’s more a problem of UK logistics since the Brexit regulations came into effect. There’s enough produce to supply the market and the vegetable season is happening pretty normally.”
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Plenti of tomatoes in Spain and the rest of Europe, is just that they don't reach UK.
HO well...no more pizza.

Hi NewKOTB
Gov knee-jerk response to the energy crisis has ensured the UK is now one of the most unstable economies for O&G investments, just think about that for a moment !======================
"Knee-jerk response" imo is a forgiving and polite way to excuse every Gov. mischief and day light robbery, been going on since almost ever.
Is the same story in every Western country you look at...now definitely also in UK.
I am under the impression that since Brexit, UK Gov. has become more bold in allowing transferring of cash from the poor to the rich, they don't stop not even if is a matter of national security and energy independence.
This can only end up in one way, civil unrest.....Mind you they have the best socioeconomic psychologist as civil servants working fort them, to make sure we get screwed up slowly slowly....
What a short sighted way to live......

Sorry if a bit out of topic
but a similar situation imv is developing for household gas and energy prices, where the Gov. is allowing energy providers to charge extorsion prices even if recently energy and gas prices have come down.
I am on a tracker tariff with Octopus energy, tracker my @rse....KWh price has remain at the higher level for months even is wholesale prices have come down. Thing is they have allowed (the Gov.) to create an energy providers cartel, where is not possible to switch to another provider....
I suppose is another way for the Gov. to milk tax revenue out of people and blame someone else.
I wonder if some minister are also getting extra benefits out of this sorrow situation.....

I remember a while ago this story of MIIF buying in going round....
Back then many agreed that till ML is not authorised no MIIL buy in.
One could argue that by then All sp will be much higher hence been more expensive for MIIL to buy in.
At this point you may ask yourself, what's my point?
The truth is I have no point to make.

Me I say to talk about the war in Ukraine from an economical point of view is a bit gross.
Moreover I can't hardly see how much in long terms, it would affect any economy for that matter.
If anything it changes the geopolitical side of economic relations, but can't really bring my self to figure out, who is going to win or loose out of it.....