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Nicely timed buy
bottomed at 15.5p
Closed at 15.77p

There is a RI at 15p btw
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The qualification of the new production facilities enables a number of key things to happen. Firstly it means that they can produce their VCSEL wafers in mass quantities using 6” diameter and in long runs ensuring efficient manufacturing by using the highest diameter possible and no need to be changing the tool set up to switch tools between different products. Secondly, it ensures that tools in their other facilities are free to make other products such as wafers destined for the 5G wireless market that will probably start to show significant volumes by next year. Thirdly, there is the confirmation that qualification of VCSEL wafer production for other end users (such as Android phones) and other applications such as LiDAR is soon to be complete supporting the non-Apple related growth in VCSEL wafers.

The announcement does support the current guidance significantly and thus the likelihood of another earnings miss later this year is substantially minimised, which should help put a floor under the share price.

yes M8 you did...but they opened at 80p
Now over 90p as the rise has been relentless

Krispy has just come home and seen the price of the anti one
WOW!! was his response
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Will please your dad Wassattjunior
It's his largest holding
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BTW.....Very funny post CRONKITE
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princesszeus
METRO bank is a tiny compared to major banks
It's called a challenger bank and won't cause a "blip" if it went under
Forget the Financial crash crap? LOL!!!!

Had a terrible time with BOO/IQE shares
Then it all changed at the start of this yr with BOO.....now recently IQE has come alive
Funny things....these AIM shares!
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You're a new investor then barnetpeter
Welcome aboard

They just don't like your face m8
lo!

Up 15%+

Dr Drew Nelson, CEO and President of IQE commented:
“I am very pleased to announce IQE’s receipt of full product qualification status from our leading VCSEL customer, and the first order for mass production from our new Mega Epi foundry in Newport.

“IQE has invested heavily, along with help from the Cardiff City Region Deal (CCR), to build the worlds largest outsource epi facility, demonstrating our commitment to providing the capacity required for large scale deployment of VCSELs and other Compound Semiconductor (CS) products, as the CS industry moves through a real inflection point in volume manufacture.

“IQE is committed to leadership of this mass CS scaling, offering a unique range of wafer products and complementary technologies, enabling our customers to introduce disruptive products to the end marketplace. We have a powerful and extensive roadmap for VCSEL technology, which we believe will help the acceleration of the deployment of VCSELs across many end applications”

Impressive climb from 88p at 08-45am today

Broken though 90p
https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-price-chart.do

A first-quarter trading update for Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY) again captures the dispirited current mood among UK-facing lenders. Despite re-affirming 2019 guidance, group chief executive António Horta-Osório flagged persistent Brexit uncertainty’s “further impact” on the economy, £339m was written off for “adverse movements in banking volatility and charges associated with exiting the Standard Life Aberdeen investment management agreement. Meanwhile that old bug-bear – mis-sold payment protection insurance – has resulted in yet another charge of £100m. The news has reversed the share price gains brought on by yesterday’s announcement of a drop in the required capital buffer. Buy.

Summit going SOON......hopefuly
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@88.48p

No shorts are shown from the FCA's daily short positions report.....0.5% being their threshold
https://shorttracker.co.uk/company/JE00BG6L7297/

With the announcement of the Fed no change policy
Explains the $POG drop at 7-30pm

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/DXY:CUR
https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-price-chart.do

FED - NO CHANGE
Trump will be tweeting his bile right now...

Makes a change WASSATT
That's over 30 ministers replaced under Theresa May
Still way behind Labours total
What a joke the UK has become
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