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I hope all those LOONIES who berated Mr Looney, the CEO, are going to apologise on here? When the whole market is against a sector there is nothing anyone can do to the short or medium term share price. Mr Looney is steering BP in a direction it has to go and recent deals support that strategy; if you don't agree, sell your holdings if you have any!
BTW I have £10K invested here at 325P

So all those people who blamed Mr Looney for the direction of the company and its share price should now thank attribute the rise to him?
We are moving faster and greater towards a greener agenda ALL OVER THE WORLD. BP are positioning ahead of the game.
Please don't judge a company and its team on day to day fluctuations on its share price; if it is not 350p-450p in a year then yoou can quote all this back to me.

Depends what day and time you called in. also weather....many factors effect footfall. And this is a global brand with increasingly online. Taking a small snapshot may not always give the bigger picture.

Historically FTSE is large, high dividend, rather old industries.....oil, mining, banks, insurers etc. Europe pays less yield. USA has high component new tech stocks.....FTSE hit as most stocks out of fashion and/or cut divis. PLUS, Brexit does weigh on our market. Whatever your view, get Brexit out of the way, Covid will pass or be accommodated, divis will come back and the FTSE will come back; alway have diversified portfolios....both in stocks and continents.

It depends on several factors. Normally a bid is made if the potential new owners believe there is uplift the market cannot see or want control etc.
Institutions own large blocks of shares so provided the offer is attractive enough, they will sell part of or some of their holdings. When this happens, or a potential buy buys one or more times in the market, then price per share will rise. Let's say someone/some group offered 200P per share now; many would sell ( me included ). Once a majority has been passed they then buy all shares for that price..................remember you do NOT have to BUY or SELL unless there is a takeover involving 51% of the shares by ONE individual, Group, Company or Institution.

Are we heading to a BUY OUT? Would make sense and, rightly, people such as JD do like 'control'

Julian D has added to his holding buying at £1.50 per share on Friday.

another big buy ........127K shares.........lots activity on this scale of late and all purchases; this bodes well?

Better the directors are buying, in fact better anyone is buying on larger numbers than selling? As posted before, could an offer to take this private again be on the cards and if so, what would be the price?

Although the share price ha been lower, JD has now been back taking the reins. He, above all other private investors, has the most to win or lose from this company. He will know what is going on, if you new direction taking effect; his large purchases of recent days must indicate he does believe in the new strategy.
This would be a great opportunity for JD and a group of investors/backers to make a bid and take this company private; perhaps even refloating in a few years time. My question is this: at what would be a fair and reasonable share price bid have to be to have any chance of success?

J D bought more shares...so I have followed suit against my gut instinct! Bought £10K this morning. G L A

Oh dear. How many times have we seen directors etc buy large volumes of shares in a failing business; Debbie at Interserve to name but one.
I am not suggesting this company will fail, but I feel it was of its time and has had its glory days. This is no Burberry or LMVH but cheap, foreign made products that are HYPE HYPE HYPE.....and overpriced.
Unless you have huge CGT gains, or can lose the money becuase they sold huge holdings at share price highs/floats, people like those have win win. If it does well, hyped too, brilliant. If it carries on down then they can offset CGT losses so a win win too.
I wish this company, all the directors, and shareholders large and small, every success.....for me, 'I'm (Superdied)out'!

Whitbread was a brewer and publican. It stopped brewing and built Costa Coffee and Premier Inn. I, and other shareholders, did very well.
If you do nor agree with Mr Looney, SELL or do NOT buy. I suspect most on here like chatting as though they have some great foresight, or have built their own massive portfolio from nothing; more likely they have didly squat!

I think you will find Brent Futures are trading down over 3% this morning?

Debbie White, CEO of Interserve, said:

"This progress on the Deleveraging Plan is excellent news for all our employees, customers and suppliers. It will provide us with a strong balance sheet and enable us to move forward with confidence and the ability to improve our business and deliver our long term strategy."

WHAT ABOUT THE OWNERS OF THE BUSINESS- THE SHAREHOLDERS?

Bought at 93P sold at 11P !

If you use that analogy I see it as you have a house worth £500K and a £250K mortgage. You cannot keep the mortgage payments up so the mortgage company says ok, in return for lower payments they will take some of your equity but base the value of the house at only £300K.....you have all but been wiped out?

Questions:
Lenders are taking it too as they own about 60%?
Why are shorts not higher and one big player closed
Is this pure speculation and it's becoming self fulfilling

Thanks.

Rightback...how do you find where is says IN AUCTION or short squeeze. Im in here at 93P and £10K

or a massive sale of assets

are people going on and on about leadership, Trump, EU.....this is a LLOYDS chatroom for serious present or future investors. Suggest those people get a soap box and set up in Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park. You do nothing to enhance our knowledge or debate about LLOYDS. Get a life!