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Good afternoon m8
Glorious day, Good to be alive.
You are right, Ibex belong in the goat family, the same part of the family as mountain goats.
They mostly live in steep, rocky habitats at elevations of between 6,500 – 15,000 feet
They have specialised pincer-like hooves for climbing.
Only the Ibex could defy gravity by climbing up a vertical dam wall
Did you see the unbelievable closing shot, with an Ibex running.... yes running, across the vertical dam wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc

Don't you see Grey herons around your way eyeing up your garden pond
An absolute menace down here as only netting a pond seems to stop them plundering fish..
Massive bird with its stilt like legs.

Viewed this when first shown.
Never seen anything like it again
Truly terrifying when the young kid follows the mother Ibex up the sheer face of the vertical dam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc

You should be on stage..youre a funny dude
Actually you are on a virtual stage...called cyber space
Nite m8ty

I can picture him now snoring to high heaven as he dreams of past conquests...
:- ))))))

Great vids KENNY
Hooded crow is also found in Ireland...saw loads around Dublin many moons ago
CHEERS

19C...get the suntan on & the shades out m8ty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2638324

Enjoy!!!

Yellowhammer...
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=amyellowhammer+photo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
siskin
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=siskin+photo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

canary
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=canary+photo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

AND THE CANARY IS WAS !!!!!!!!

very surreal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq-uCJtN9IY

He's a spammer....mailed same post on 20 boards.
Should be banned.

Never ever seen a Yellowhammer FIRE...V rare down here.
You do meet some cracking birds m8

Britain's banks were in effect given little choice on dividends by the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority, which threatened to take supervisory action against them if they did not.

"The PRA stands ready to consider use of our supervisory powers should your group not agree to take such action," PRA CEO Sam Woods said in a letter to each bank's chief executive.

The BoE moved quickly because some payments were imminent. It wrote to banks on Tuesday afternoon and told them to make a decision within hours, which they did. That was because Barclays was due to make its payment on Friday, one person at a rival bank said.

HSBC was hardest hit by the news, as it prides itself on its ability to pay dividends, and investors, especially in Hong Kong, rely on its reliable income. HSBC had been due to pay a US$0.21 dividend on April 14. The bank made 55% of its profit in Hong Kong last year, and about 40% of its shareholders are retail investors in the territory.

"Although the decisions taken today will result in shareholders not receiving dividends, they are a sensible precautionary step given the unique role that banks need to play in supporting the wider economy through a period of economic disruption," the PRA said.

It said the banks were well capitalised but "the extra headroom should help the banks support the economy through 2020".
https://www.ifre.com/story/2308687/bonfire-of-the-bank-dividends-l8n2bq2ye

GATE13
I'm not sure what type of trades you mean?
Do you mean “Off-book” trades that don’t appear on the L2 order book as the price is agreed by buyer and seller "off the exchange" ?
Please clarify...

GATE13
The article is about the common complain that market makers cause a false market.
It's about small caps were it does say

"market makers tend to keep a relatively small float of shares, which would be depleted almost immediately."

But it does mention the large caps here..that I quoted in my last post...

Supply and demand
With larger companies, like FTSE-100 constituents, which are traded on the electronic SETS system, the normal market sizes are vastly larger than the example here. And casting our minds back to how SETS works, there are no human market makers in the middle, so when we want to buy shares we can only buy at a price that other shareholders are willing to sell at.

You're mixing up market makers on the smaller companies. to what happens on large cap LLOYDS
Granted it wasn't the best article to select.
Best it was the first I found.

GATE13
I'm talking about FT350 not small aim shares
Extract
Supply and demand
With larger companies, like FTSE-100 constituents, which are traded on the electronic SETS system, the normal market sizes are vastly larger than the example here. And casting our minds back to how SETS works, there are no human market makers in the middle, so when we want to buy shares we can only buy at a price that other shareholders are willing to sell at.
Please read this..
https://www.fool.co.uk/investing-basics/how-the-stock-market-works/market-makers/

SUFCESSEX
I think you mean when their is more demand for buying than selling on the SETS order book
If no one sold you couldn't buy as market makers don't hold shares
Shares sold always equals the numbers bought.more or less. every day.
Its more demand on either side of the order book that causes the swings up and down as the order book changes every micro second.
Check out how the matching system called SETS operates for all FT350 shares
London Stock Exchange 4 minute video explains this
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/products-and-services/trading-services/sets/sets-intraday-auction.htm

Yeah memory mixed up
It was RBS that bought NAT WEST at the turn of the century
Ta.

Think they will move to HK as most of their business is in the far east.
Just Nat West in UK according to memory.
Its a close call, as after the 2016 Referendum they said they would., reversing it later.
All by memory...so hopefully correct
DYOR

In Spain unless you are a key worker (defined) you cant go anywhere apart from the supermarket
GOVE talking now...daily chat
Highest daily toll on this killer.
300 ventilators from China just arrived.
Praising the NHS...again.
Welcomes criticism (OXO please note)

They could start by letting journalists follow up a question...rather than their mic turned off after each question is put.

ZOROS
Thanks for the Johns Hopkins University information
An obvious source for "known factual information"
Interesting stuff even if it requires a second read

The only law on the stature book is....
You must have a valid reason to leave home.
The rest is ADVICE
Police confused and just making it up in different police forces
UTTER CONFUSION EVERYWHERE

S/B....
JAMES - from the LLOYDS BB - the BOD can legally stop DIVS at "ANYTIME"