The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
The only reason it would drop back down is through manipulation or day traders. It will get harder to keep manipulating it down on days like this and traders might decide to hold in the short term to ride a wave up. No real reason for it to retreat so be interesting to see where this ends up.
So the EU won't be too far behind after all. This is good news for our sites in Europe.
"Most EU countries should have enough Covid-19 vaccines to immunise the majority of their citizens by the end of June, a new report has revealed.
Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain will all be in a position to vaccinate more than 55 per cent of their population before July, according to a European Commission memo cited by Bloomberg."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-covid-vaccine-immunised-june-b1827225.html
Also sounds like there may be another vaccine player being talked up, possibly entering phase 3 trials end of this month Valneva. Not heard of it myself up until today but good to see another vaccine candidate which will be produced in the UK almost there and will help us in the last leg to bring stable normality back to the country.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-lockdown-tests-passport-vaccine-travel-traffic-lights/
I guess retail appeared more glamorous than office space at the time but this new strategy of combined spaces seems to make sense to me. The residents and workers will be natural customers to the retail environment that Hammerson want to start presenting.
Looks like Hammerson are showing their desire to diversify their portfolio to include more office and residential spaces over just retail. It's a smart move given the current climate and will definitely add value for the future.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hammerson-deals-blow-retail-dublin-central-site-gqkl3qc2v
Not sure if this was seen or posted before but just stumbled across it and it sounds very interesting. It's good to see Hammerson coming up with different ideas to make use of vacant space. This should help bring in money while being an anchor to bring guests to the rest of the properties spaces.
"Hammerson, the owners of Centrale, have announced that Flip Out will be coming to Croydon this summer, with a £2million refit of a large part of two floors of the shopping centre.
In the past week, Centrale has been “re-invented” as an NHS covid-19 vaccination centre, taking up much of its Upper Mall, administering thousands of life-saving jabs every day. The sooner the Croydon public is all vaxed up, the sooner we can get back to business as usual.
Part of that, for Centrale, will be Flip Out, using otherwise disused and unwanted retail space as an adventure park, turning the mall into a “destination”, where bars, restaurants and cinemas are as much the reason for a visit to the town centre as a shopping expedition once was."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/insidecroydon.com/2021/03/17/centrale-flips-out-with-2m-adventure-park-planned-for-summer/amp/
My understanding is that on the 5th on April it will be confirmed if the stage of reopening non-essential retail including shopping malls on the 14th of April will be officially confirmed as going ahead.
This is a sign of things to come, with more money saved and pent up demand retailers will surely benefit.
"Britain’s recovery during the second half of last year was stronger than first estimated, according to official figures that also showed that households put away more money in savings accounts than previous data suggested.
In a series of revisions to its data covering the Covid-19 pandemic, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded by 16.9% and 1.3% in the third and fourth quarters of 2020 respectively. This marked steep increases on initial estimates of 16.1% and 1%."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/31/uk-economy-savings-expansion-recovery
I'm glad I gave you a laugh but obviously Steven I was referring to people wanting to pick up the script dividend which if they had bought yesterday and sold today would have been as I originally said something for nothing.
This is a public forum for those interested in Hammerson shares, as long as we are discussing Hammerson we can post as much as we like, perhaps we enjoy sharing information? Not unheard of.
No matter how good the stock there is almost always a slight dip post ex dividend but it doesn't usually last very long. Probably just a few people selling who thought it was worth dipping in and out to pick up something for free.
I think its unlikely stonehenge when the majority of properties are in the UK a temporary French lockdown won't change the sp's trajectory. Ex dividend may give it a little dip but I'm expecting the march up to continue.
I wouldn't read too much into the share sale, it looks to me just like someone who wanted/needed a bit of cash from a share incentive plan that had just matured. The number of shares weren't a huge amount and I wouldn't be surprised if there was very little motivation behind the sale.
My thoughts are they missed out on 3p per share by selling a too early lol
But seriously, it's not great to see but hardly a worry. By the time we've seen it it's already old news and has already been filtered into the share price.
Considering this is the last day to pick up shares before the ex-dividend date does anyone else think this is a morning tree shake to try and get people to give up their shares? I wouldn't be surprised to see a rise soon.