Member Info for MoneyThimbles

She's so utterly useless. We were all hoping she'd be another Thatcher, but clearly her reputation as "difficult" stemmed from the hothouse atmosphere of Parliament nowadays, rather than any personal drive. Thatcher would have chewed them up and spat them out, and declared that we'd leave on WTO terms, and for good measure she'd have got someone to calculate what the trade losses would be for France and Germany. May just put her "difficult" face on and then wondered why no one took any notice.

It looks like the acquisition has been well received by the market. Back to nearly 16p !

Well at least they didn't waste any money on having it underwritten, which means they've got at least one person awake over there. It also probably means that there's good sentiment amongst the institutional investors for the fundraising. Maybe it won't drop much in the aftermarket?

On the contrary, I have held this share for a while -- since 30p. But I am getting tired of believing in the message and ignoring the share price action, especially when the share price is in the habit of moving just before an announcement. In this case, we eventually had a couple of price-negative announcements and the share price has declined by about tuppence since then, so in retrospect it wasn't that bad a decision was it. Ironically, that may mean it's now time to buy. I'm thinking about it.

I couldn't see any profits forecast there at all; the numbers only went to 2019 estimated, and they were all losses. I sold earlier this week, and may stay out until I see something encouraging.

At that rate it will take 4 years for our income to exceed our expenditure, assuming the expenditure remains constant, which it won't.

The only people who could make a go of MIPS now, I think, are the Chinese. They keep on making noises about making their own processors using Chinese owned IP -- the latest was a few days ago -- but the feeling I get is that they would prefer to go with something totally new, and invented and designed in China rather than simply buy ownership of an existing IP.

So does this mean your patch is going to start streaming tunes from Spotify now?All very well if you wake up and it's playing "When I'm sixty-four," but what if you wake up and it's playing Chopin's Funeral March ?

Recommended by the board of directord, I assume he means.

Britain set to be battered by fierce snowstorms and freezing temperatures that could affect food stocks next winter: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3078581/Britain-set-battered-fierce-snowstorms-El-Nino-cycle-five-years-begins.html

It was a "US$100m share buyback programme" altogether, and our cash pile is some $1.3 billion iirc, so we could easily do another programme later this year if thought useful.

"3. the quorum requirement for shareholder meetings is reduced from shareholders representing at least 50 per cent of the issued shares to two shareholders present in person or by proxy;" Oooh! Let's have a pub lunch and change all the articles!

in platic films at all, perhaps they should talk to Nanoco. The display side of their business is already sewn up by Dow, but there should still be business to do w.r.t. solar power, lighting, perhaps others too.

"Our power response engines receive higher unit selling prices than base load CMM but will only be running between 5%-10% of the annual hours." So doesn't that mean that the fixed costs of the power engine etc are relatively enormous?

"Additionally, Chief Executive Officer Farad Azima stepped down at the beginning of 2015 to become executive chairman of Frontierbio Sciences Ltd, a company jointly owned by NetScientific and Zahra Holdings Ltd, a company controlled by Azima. NetScientific is continuing to search for a new chief executive officer." http://www.lse.co.uk/AllNews.asp?code=9pb2xiuv&headline=NetScientific_Posts_Widened_Loss_As_Portfolio_Companies_Ramp_Up I have to admit, the way it was reported at the time made it sound much more suspicious than that; and to my (suspicious!) mind, the new info could still just be a bit of spin. We probably won't find out until something goes wrong, then we'll read about how it was common knowledge in the City... Of course, looking at the share price action since, you could argue that things have already gone wrong...

It's a cash offer, no shares.

I read under "Company Highlights": "* Announced initiation of first cash dividend in Atmel's 30-year history" As an AIM technology investor -- sorry, apparently that should be "speculator" -- I felt like swearing when I saw that!

"Vesting of the JSOP and unapproved award issued to Directors are subject to the following performance criteria. All of the award will be subject to the share price attaining an average closing mid-market price of 15p for 90 days by 30th January 2020. This vesting will neither be triggered before 30th January 2018 nor after 30th January 2020." There you go, crumb of comfort!

I think we're all just curled up and waiting for the pain to end.

No, because part of the cash from the SONA deal will go to paying off 200 million of the debt iirc. They were talking about an 11p divi with the rest -- they could keep that money for paying interest on the reduced debt instead, if the oil price stays low.