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No shares are traded whatsoever, yet the share price falls.!!!??? I would raise the say proverbial eyebrows were teh share price to rise. - Either the system registering the price is flawed, or the market fundamentally corrupted. I veer to the latter on this score.

Your comments on how the weather has such a drastic effect of the food chain, and hence the prospect of survival itself and starvation, is the things that caght my interest. Civilization is a very fragile construct, and something as basic as the weather and with over 6 billion mouths to feed, we had better start developing mor robust crops. Let's hope PIM can contribute to this, as survival is more important than the share price.

As you say, low rate of interest on cash, and the risk of inflation, vitiates against holding cash. But the downside is that the inflation is pased on (to stock prices) with some stocks being inflated, and the risk of an uncanny bubble caused by excess liquidity not going into the real economy, but the stock market. If you imagine the sheer scale of the crash that occured after Lehman collapsed, the ramifications will feed through somewhere, and cause a lot of collateral damage - unless we can get sustained growth. To be blunt, the real economy must catch up with the evident euphoria experinced in stocks prices. The whole edifice is unsustainable otherwise. I am keeping at the current time about two thirds my available assets in cash, and one third will cautious day trade with.

It seems as if the share price has settled around the 130 ish level and set to park here. Likely, general maket sentiment (and a tendency for skittishness) will set the trend one way or another.

I am taking a holistic approach to this stock, and I view it not so much as a manufacturer of product, but more in the guise of what ARM does - that is, to develop ideas, and reap dividends via royalties. Basically, an ideas factory. There are too many bioteck firms chasing the wonder drug. I like this firm because it is in agriculture, and that is more linear than the haphazard loops of the biotechs. Lastly, there is so much stock manipulation going on all the time that I really don't believe what I see and using my own judgement. When it comes to finance, the UK and other developed makkets, so called, as just as corrupted and opaqe as those in any banana republic. And by the way, developed a new strain of bananas may be a good long term investment for PIM. Just a thought!!!

I agree with some of the points you raise. But we can't discount the distortions in the market caused by the exceptionally low interest rates - basically, some entities, like the banks and hedge funds, are engaged in the Carry Trade. Some of this (dollar) capital is finding it's way to the UK stock market, given sterlling's recent decline against the dollar, for example. - Personally, I don't see any signs of a double dip. But I do sense a great deal of double-guessing going on, and that makes a lot of investors skittish and nervous. There is also a huge pile of cash piled up waiting for a correction of some kind. Barring the unexpected, normal data and events should bot in themselves cause major dips (or spikes for that matter). There is a sense emerging that markets are just coasting in a range, and it's time to become a 'range'trader'.. Good luck.

How does this account for the decline in the share price? - A common sense approach must dictate, I think, that one must have patience with this stock. It's a slow fruit and takes time to ripen and mature. Then, it will be ready for picking!!!

The past few sessions appear to show the speculators are having a run, trying to push up prices generally across the board, and trying to entire all that money parked on the sidelines. But thus far, the big institutions that move markets don't seem to be buying it. Zero interest loans are spiking this market at present, and all that cash seems preparted to wait it out.

With a bit of luck, and a host of sleepwalkers, this share may perk up this coming week.

The sum of the parts greater than the whole? This kind of mirror inverted logic seems to prevail throughout the markets at present, across the board and all sectors. Something is odd here, in general. Or maybe it's just me...

I don't quite get your point. For your information (and edification) I am Mammon. As for religion, be advised that Mammon is a deity in his own right, and therefor request due obescience from all concerned (or I may just snap away your pennies)..

The smart thing to do is to Licence PIM's portfolio of products, not become a takeover target. Take the ARM analogy which is a fabless semiconductor company/designer. If PIM goes along with that model, and rakes in royalties without having to worry about industrial overheads, then perhaps one day (soon!?) we may see PIM's shares mirror that of ARM.

Knowedge is the new capital, and this firm has knowledge. I have every confidence it will prosper, so I bought in and will hold long term. Thus, stop looking at the share price every ten minutes. Every ten days will suffice.

I have been trying to guage sentiment over the past few days, especially with regards the Greek bond issue, which was postponed. The problem is, while Greece won't default, there are so many bets shorting it and stacked against it that something will have to be pulled down as much as possible to minimize any potential losses that these speculators may have made. Basically, the chips are already down and the wheel spinning. The market, I am guessing, will dip and make a bounce to flush out these bets. The question is guaging the depth of that dip to buy in to banks etc.

WIsdom. Let me define wishdom in the present context. If you are of the conviction that this company share price is not going to progress, then be clever and short it big time and make a packet of money on its decline. If you think oherwise, take a long position and profit from that. In either case, the way to get revenge on something is to profit from them. To my mind, anger and bitterness does not pay the bills. Personally, I think at some time the market will correct. I hope I can be out of the stock by them and waiting on the sidelines. I could be totally wrong, as I have been in the past. It's a risk I am preparted to take. My adivce: study the markets and try to profit from them. If you find it is not for you, buy gilts or invest with the building society. We are here to learn and make profit, not to grumble with one another, surely?

This board GKN is somewhat quiet of late. I sense nervousness among some investors that the announcment tomorrow, 25 Feb, will be downbeat. I am looking forward to something more positive than that. This is a solid company well position in high tech and the industrial sector, and it has a good product range and sound R&D. This is more than enough to carry it forward. Perk up!

The dogs bark, but the camel train keeps moving on.

At the outset of this crises, following Lehman's collpse, when UK Treasury officials struggled frantically to contain the crises and worked overnight to rescue (bankroll) the UK banks from imminent collapse, a Treasury official the following morning commented that 'Things will not be restored to their post-crises levels until around 2017'. The hit that the world economy took was colossal, and the remedies uncertain. This recession is the equivalent of a world war. It's a game changer. The stock markets are looking exhausted at the moment. I am setting my crosshairs on a normative level of 5200 for the FTSE and around 9900 for the Dow. At these levels, there is stabiiity in the markers, broadly speaking, with sectors and companies fluctuating piecemeal. Here is a very insightful aritcle of a speech formed US Fed chariman Greenspan gave on Tuesday Feb 23 - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61M4B120100223?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r1:c0.140662:b31009364:z0

Conviction in the market place is always commendable. The numbers for this company show a promising stock to own. But March is still a long time for the markets, and a lot can happen in that interval. Good luck, and I am keeping an eye on this stock.

Mmmmm..... I am going to shut up for a few days until this pattern unravels. Talk of markets being synchonized seem to have withered. Asia (Nikkei, Hang Seng, etc) surge and the Dow, FTSE, Dax, pall. Who is the leader and who the follower of events? As the first line of the book reads. 'It's not a machine's world, whatever you may think.'