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CHEERS m8...will post your link on the SHG board

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Uranium-holding vehicle Yellow Cake (YCA) said the value of its U3O8 climbed 30 per cent between the start of 2020 and 17 April. Uranium is one of the few materials that has gained in recent months, as major producers Kazatomprom and Cameco had to suspend some operations because of Covid-19. Yellow Cake is trading at 230p per share, compared to its net asset value (as of 17 April) of 288p. Buy.

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Aston Martin has gone bust seven times in its history. It would almost certainly have done so again, if not for this rescue package.
I understand the attraction of these shares as trading counters, but what are the odds that AML won't go bust an eighth, ninth and tenth time

US Crude Oil WTI $13.09 -28.35 %
Brent $27.00 -3.74%

Prices live here...
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

Lack of OIL Storage seems to be the main problem ...I believe...

US Crude Oil WTI $13.09 -28.35 %
Brent $27.00 -3.74%

Prices live here...
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

I believe the Government will underwrite 100% of loans to businesses rather than the current 80%

The German and Swiss Governments are doing this from day one... RICHARD.
Beneficial to the Nations business and for LLOYDS .....with far less risk
But maybe not for the Governments coffers and of course the taxpayers

BUT WE DID help to PRODUCE......
1,480 kg of honey produced in latest beekeeping season, a 64% annual increase;
MRBOND
:-)))))))

Honestly JAMES is what we want in the present unprecedented emergency.
If we knew the true situation with the real positives...and their are many.
The public would fully understand and accept any mistakes, delays.....as everyone knows there not malicious.
Playing party politics with the (highlight of day for most) daily briefings spin is a complete turnoff and is gradually damaging the national spirits and the will to live.
Take care young James
ATB

Hilarious JAMES
You spoilt the latest BORIS LOVE-IN here....
What a rotter you are?

The ROO tells it TRUE!!!

WTI
WTI crude prices plunged near 21% to a session low of $14.47 a barrel on Monday, a level not seen since March of 1999 amid demand and storage concerns. Global oil consumption is estimated to have fallen by 30% amid stay-at-home restrictions and business closures due to the coronavirus outbreak. Investors also worry that storage facilities in the US, specially at Cushing, Oklahoma which is the main delivery point in the US for oil, will run out of capacity. Meanwhile, Brent crude prices fell as much as 4.2% to a session low of $26.91, the lowest since April 2nd 2020 although Brent crude does not have the same storage problems.

BRENT
Brent crude dropped more than 2% to trade around $27.4 a barrel on Monday, amid demand and storage worries. Global oil consumption is estimated to have fallen by 30% due to lockdowns and business closures amid the coronavirus pandemic. Concerns that US storage facilities will run out of capacity also weighed on sentiment, in particular at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for the WTI contract. Brent crude does not have the same storage problems.

BRENT $17.5 should have been $27.5...........was a typo mistake

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil

Just released TODAY.......
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/917600/shanta-gold-boosts-first-quarter-production-reiterates-production-guidance-for-between-80000-85000-ounces-917600.html

Another positive day me thinks!!!!

The price of US oil has fallen to a level not seen since 1999, as demand dries up and storage runs out.
The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, dropped 14% to $15.65 in Asia trading on Monday.
The oil market has come under intense pressure during the coronavirus pandemic with a huge slump in demand.
US storage facilities are now struggling to cope with the glut of oil, weakening prices further.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52350082

LIVE SPOT OIL PRICES NOW...
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

Live spot oil prices
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

to our cynic FAREND

nymex crude, wait for it.....$14.9 a barrel WOW!!!!!

brent $17.5
gold flat
ftse/dax futures up 1%
cac up 0.5%

Q1 Highlights

· Gold production of 20,167 ounces ("oz") (Q4 2019: 19,550 oz);

· Adjusted EBITDA1 of US$15.0 m (Q4 2019: US$8.6 m);

· All In Sustaining Costs ("AISC")2 of US$833 /oz (Q4 2019: US$902 /oz);

· Cash operating costs of US$630 /oz (Q4 2019: US$638 /oz);

· Forward sales commitments reduced during the Quarter to 31,265 oz (Q4 2019: 40,000 oz) and post period to 27,304 oz, a 32% reduction from the end of 2019;

· Cash, and available liquidity3 of US$15.7 m (Q4 2019: US$13.7 m);

· Gross debt decreased 7.3% to US$20.4 m (Q4 2019: US$22.0 m);

· Zero Lost Time Injuries ("LTI's"), with no LTI's since Q4 2017;

· Acquisition of Barrick Gold Corporation's Kenyan assets (the "West Kenya Project") announced; closing of transaction anticipated to take place around mid-2020; and,

· West Kenya Project includes NI-43101 compliant Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate of 1,182,000 oz gold grading 12.6 g/t, believed to be one of the highest grading +1 Moz gold deposits in Africa.

Response to COVID-19

· The Songwe region has no reported cases of COVID-19 and Shanta has put in place restrictions on all non-critical business travel;
Shanta was an early adopter of precautionary measures to reduce the risk of infection;

VAT REPAID.......
· VAT receivable increased to US$22.9 m (Q4 2019: US$21.8 m) after a VAT refund of US$0.7 m (set off against corporate taxes);

BUT WE DID help to PRODUCE......
1,480 kg of honey produced in latest beekeeping season, a 64% annual increase;

WOW !!!!!!!!

TROAJAN
Many democrats states want unlock. Trump can't make them.
States are like countries with their own laws and shutting them down is the State Governors job.
Trump could U turn again according to his unpredictable though process.
Anyway its a gradual unlock Trump wants now...
My oldest daughter Michelle was born in 69....makes me the no1 coffin dodger here!
ATB.

TROAJAN
Yeah your spot on there m8.
Shame we don't have the vast network of labs the ROCHE have in Germany
They TEST TEST TEST as the WHO asked every country to do... and have successfully reduced the spread with far less deaths.
They have tested millions...testing a 100,00 day.
You just phone your doctor and he will test you...results back in a few days.
The Germans are protecting their Companies with 100% loans and freezes on almost everything.
Still we will get through....bumbling along in the British way.
"MAKE DO AND MEND" was the 40/50's manta...can you remember that?

God help Blighty......but I'm a pessimist m8

TROAJAN
Sorry to correct you.
But your mixing up vaccines that give immunity...like the flu jab
and
Effective treatments for COVID-19 suffers. .....like as you say old proven treatments for EBLOA and malaria.
Which could have dual use by treating COVID patients successfully.
BOTH are needed m8

Over 100 vaccine projects around the world. With at least 2 perhaps 3, in the clinical trials

Question at yesterdays Government virtual daily briefings........
Oxford scientists have said they are so confident that their vaccine will work that they are going to manufacture 1m doses. What will you do to make sure the UK is first in the queue to buy it?

Sharma says this is a reference to the Edward Jenner Institute. He has spoken to them, and is supporting the work that they are doing.

Sir Patrick Vallance says these researchers have done a great job. But there are over 100 vaccine projects around the world. There are at least two, or perhaps three, in the clinic.

But most vaccine trials do not work, he says.

He says you can only use vaccines when you know they are safe.

He says the vaccine can come from anywhere. The domestic effort is being supported. But it might come from somewhere else.

We just need to back lots of horses at the moment.

And we may need more than one vaccine, he says.

TROAJAN
GSK/AZN – Astrazeneca have vast production lines....so are able to produce billions for the UK, once they are licensed to do so, from the company that produces a thoroughly tested and proven vaccine

SRB is on my watchlist.....shot up 20% recently with v good results....so missed the boat.

Over 100 vaccine projects around the world. With at least 2 perhaps 3, in the clinical trials

Question at yesterdays Government virtual daily briefings........
:Oxford scientists have said they are so confident that their vaccine will work that they are going to manufacture 1m doses. What will you do to make sure the UK is first in the queue to buy it?

Sharma says this is a reference to the Edward Jenner Institute. He has spoken to them, and is supporting the work that they are doing.

Sir Patrick Vallance says these researchers have done a great job. But there are over 100 vaccine projects around the world. There are at least two, or perhaps three, in the clinic.

But most vaccine trials do not work, he says.

He says you can only use vaccines when you know they are safe.

GSK/AZN – Astrazeneca have vast production scale....so are able to produce billions for the UK, once their are licensed to do so, from the vaccine

He says the vaccine can come from anywhere. The domestic effort is being supported. But it might come from somewhere else.

We just need to back lots of horses at the moment.

And we may need more than one vaccine, he says.

TROAJAN
GSK/AZN – Astrazeneca have vast production lines....so are able to produce billions for the UK, once they are licensed to do so, from the company that produces a thoroughly tested and proven vaccine
SRB is on my watchlist.....shot up 20% recently with v good results....so missed the boat.