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I also note that several ex-board members are being shunned , in general , on potential re-employment , not that they should need the extra cash, but by association. The fact that it is was the massage of the the regulations that were best then in place and the fact that said individuals were enabled to best manipulate such , upon a global level , more than likely bought about global financial collapse ,not the individual , but in saying that , even if in position , I would also not employ them by default. Trading methods are also vastly traded differently than those of a decade ago , so I go along with the fact that some of the past volatility and recent buying strength in some sectors are as a result of enhanced activity via the growth in players in such methods and them best taking off their positions of late and also marginally contra buying in on a percentage of retained profit that has added to the recent sustained rally in some of our markets . Regarding the UK banking market and moving along from RBS to Barclays , as far as my experiences go , if markets are good and stock is strong and shows the prospect of continued growth , private investors tend to hold , especially corporate or country invested partners , call it what you will. In order to buy said 'partners' out in a perceived strengthening market , will not be cheap , if achieved at all. The strength Barclays retains is in the 'other' arms of their non UK retail banking.

early days , but it appears that the problem is intermittent , ie. if I want to go from posting this to Barclays premium chat , for example , and if I immediately type in the search box BARC , it will pull me straight into barclays general and unless there was somebody who has recently posted under barclays in premium that I could search upon under all the posted premium chats and then click upon , I cannot post under barclays premium chat. I hope that I do not appear to be nit picking and I hope that as it is intermittent others aside from me and moosh have also experienced such to warrant a further look as if not fully checked through and soughted , it could become a general problem as premium rolls out , sincerely , mark.

I do like closely looking over the books of those that seek capital raising. Both Lansdowne and BlackRock , amongst others are increasing short positions. With 7 new shares per 10 in being issued at £3.65 and a current market cap of c.£900m at a current c.£7.30 per share with c.123m shares in circulation , looks like a healthy short in the making. Will look into the other factors and have a stab at likely SP ex rights laters.

.. thanks for the link , been hoping to come by something half decent re diamond prices , duly saved

I'll simply recommend previous post and this one to Admin , hopefully they will pick it up and tweak, thanks for the reply , gl

http://www.enterpriseinns.com/Investors/AnnouncementAndAlerts/Documents/2009%20Interim%20Report.PDF Nothing unexpected .... (no dividend) , expected property portfolio rightdowns , resultant marginal profit , debt reduction continuing , confirms that early talks with banks re re-finance in 2011 looks like no problems ... lets see if the market has priced all this in or over cooked the recent increase.

Morning , it may be just me , but do others have problems selecting a share to discuss under premium and not being able to tag it and only get pushed back to the general board?

folk top slicing / taking profits after share dilution and high monthly rise on related miners

I will add that better to be in than out of one of the most undervalued and well placed diamond producers at these levels.

http://static.reuters.com/resources/media/editorial/20090507/scap_results_whitepaper_20090507.pdf - individual results from page 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8eDUT7iyDk

U are the penny share man. No diss , serious play on pennies can shift a company.

Hi PB , interesting that continued referral is made to the IMF's c.3200 tons. I have both read and watched many such referrals over the last month or so and the IMF's possible willingness to offload some if not all its reserves. There has been various comments on such , not least upon who actually owns such reserves. Looks like they have a buyer though if they can work out ownership issues and such talk may well be contributing to keeping prices under pressure, but who really knows. I have started to keep a closer eye on the IMF and any announcements as to the complexities of the IMF actually being able to do a deal or indeed denial that their reserves are to be considered as being cashed in upon.

..hiya, hope things are well at your end. I went yesterday with the taking of profits and then shorting. There has been a very good run on financials over the last month and whilst it is clear that banks generally have the support of governments and therefor a setting of limitation to risk of failure exists , I do not see the likely future earnings of some banks warrant such valuation growth and consider some already as commercial failures in all but name. Whilst I may have timed this completely wrong , or otherwise misread totally , I am happy with all the choices I have made with RBS over a significant period of time and whilst marginally down on the day with RBS my short on Bank of America that I opened at the same time is looking very good. Citi managed to off load some assets yesterday / today which will likely reduce any further need of major re capitalisation and / or stateside government involvement , but I consider that Bank of America remain well exposed to the need of such and consider that some banks closer to home are far from out of the woods just yet.

... paid out on Wednesday just gone if you did it via CFD , happy days , love CFD divi plays, monies for old rope

.... looks like those looking for a merger have left the table , upped my holdings as the liklihood that CHU will be bought out remains an increasing possibility... a speculative punt at best , but little downside. Many missed the divi play that was well flagged, lets see if CHU now get bought out

not a stock to be sniffed at , but when you can pocket a healthy divi whilst they are on the cards for a buyout , pocket such and reserve for such

the divi was paid out via IG the day it went ex-div , as normal.

120 odd thousand shares that should read , 50, 000 leveraged monies , I said I would report back , all I know is that is was a play for me and the cfd divi played out well , I am tired , good luck

I placed 10k , cannot find the pound sign , via CFD , ie 50, 000 shares via the 20% leveraged CFD play on CHU , at an average of 41.25 , sold ex div at 42 and bagged a healthy 5000 pounds in all over 48 hours.