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Hi Ken,

Glad that I may have been of some help, from your reply it seems as though you may have suffered some financial loss and remember your time spent thus far on trying to sort out the the matter has some cost.

If your account isn't credited on Monday then I think that calling the FCA for some advice would be wise.

As I've said before if brokers like H.L. were so expert in the markets then wouldn't they have made fortunes by now and sailed off into the sunset, but the reality is they aren't much better than a monkey with a pin!

So they make their money out of charging clients for talking chances with their money whilst they get their fat fees whichever way the trade goes!

In my opinion these advisory brokers should only get their fee if the their trading advice works out, if not then they should incur some of the pain their client has due to following their brokers expert advice.

Lets see how many of these stock market brokers and analyst stay in business if those rules were applied!

At the end of the day the markets are manipulated and bent , the house always wins , the FED and it's inner cartel know the NFP data three days before everyone else, the LBME is given exceptions.

from full compliance with Basel 3 by the FCA.

More US banks at least 53 are now in danger of failing and this could well impact on UK banks , not only that the former FCA chairman was warned in 2019 and did nothing yet he is now governor of the BOE!

Watch the video I posted earlier and look out for UK 2019, I also have emails from a UK MP who presented the case at that time, but no one with the power dare act at the time so the can was kicked down the road but it hasn't gone away !

In 2010, to highlight the crushing size of the national debt there was a 1,500 mile tour of Britain

by a custom-built clock one metre high by seven metres long, and mounted on the back of a 14m lorry. Its 80cm (32 inch), 14-digit red LED display counted up the nation's debt at the breakneck speed of £5,169 per second – that was, at the time, £446,575,342 per day.

2024

So despite us all suffering over 20 years of Tory privatisation and public sector sell privatisation and cut backs whilst our taxes have increased to the highest percentage rate in 70 years the UK national debt still increases at over £5000 per second !

https://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk/

18 May 2024

Alexei Navalny’s close ally Leonid Volkov has vowed to "never give up" fighting against Vladimir Putin, so the late Russian opposition leader’s "ultimate sacrifice" would "not be in vain".

Speaking after a brutal hammer attack in March outside his home in Lithuania, where he lives in exile, Mr Volkov told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the message behind the assault was "we know where you live, we can kill you, we are after you".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd13xw92311o

The official version about a blood clot suddenly killing the 47-year-old politician on Friday may or may not be true, but the blame for his death still remains squarely with the Russian president.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/17/why-navalny-was-hated-in-the-kremlin-and-in-some-western-circles

Khodorkovsky spent nearly ten years in prison. In order to secure his freedom and get permission to see his terminally ill mother he wrote Putin a handwritten letter, making three promises: he would leave Russia to spend time with his family; he would stay away from politics; and he would not attempt to win back his shares in Yukos – his dismantled oil company – or get involved in any court cases.

https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/how-the-west-can-stop-putin-with-exiled-critic-mikhail-khodorkovsky/

Hi Ken,

Sounds like pretty poor client service to me and that you are being given lame excuses.

I had a problem of late Centamin dividend credits to my HSBC trading account on two occasions four years ago, so after the first late credit I contacted them and they apologised for the missing credit and arranged for it to be credited within the next two days assuring me it wouldn't happen again , unfortunately I suffered the same problem with the next Centamin dividend credit so I contacted them again and this time raised a formal complaint, subsequently I received a telephone call from a customer services manager who apologised for the banks error and assured me it wouldn't happen again and that the outstanding dividend payment would be was credited to my account in a couple of days.

I explained that I was considering transferring may accounts to another bank because of a lack of confidence in the bank, the customer service manager said that they hoped that wouldn't be necessary and so it was agreed that if I gave my bank another chance then should I suffer the same problem again that every line of stock in my trading account would be transferred at no cost to an alternative bank/broker of my choice and that for this most recent error my account would be credited with a £200 compensation payment, I agreed to this and I haven't had any problems since.

You are paying H.L. for a service and it seems they aren't providing it , so give the FCA a call

https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/contact-us

The FCA recently surveyed the 42 companies and found that the majority retained some of the interest earned on these cash balances. The regulator said this may not reasonably reflect the cost to those companies of managing clients’ cash.

Key Points

The FCA to investment platforms with concerns over the way they deal with interest earned on customers’ cash balances.

The regulator accused some firms of “double dipping,” charging clients fees for holding cash while also retaining a portion of their interest payments in a higher rate environment.

Many also charged fees to customers for holding cash, known as “double dipping,” the FCA said in a statement Tuesday, adding that companies have been told to cease this practice by the end of February or risk regulatory intervention.

ttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/12/hargreaves-lansdown-aj-bell-shares-sink-as-uk-regulator-warns-on-charges.html

Compensation for distress or inconvenience

https://www.ft.com/content/9065e3d0-09eb-4c0a-a8dc-61a69bc7ad16

https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/decision/DRN-4153011.pdf

https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/hargreaves-lansdown

How close the Fed came to completely imploding after gold’s recent all-time-highs.

Where gold and silver prices could be heading in the short term and the latest updates about the upcoming BRICS gold-backed currency.

https://tinyurl.com/3u749h6r

Kitco News) – The established financial world order of the past 50 years is now transitioning to a new and unknown paradigm as the petrodollar agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia was allowed to expire this past Sunday.

https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-06-13/saudi-arabia-ends-petrodollar-agreement-what-it-means-usd-bitcoin-and-gold

Never mind you can offset some of your capital gains tax with your £2000 loss, so its not so bad!

Even Martin Horgan expresses the opinion in various media outlets that that Centamin seems very cheap and that the future offers great promise, although despite this neither he or any of the BOD demonstrate any investor confidence in their own strategy by making some meaningful share purchases and putting some of their own skin in the game.

This can only demonstrate to the market the Centamin BOD despite what Martin Horgan and his fellow directors purport every quarter in slick presentations in reality they aren't really confident in their adopted strategy for the future prospects of Centamin!

So far Martin Horgan has been more consistent in delivering excuses than delivering the predicted results whilst the Capital clear up has yet to reach its conclusion and submit its final tally, the Sukari Bonaza grades seem as far away as they ever were and Doropo has yet to prove it's worth, so in the absence of the predicted results or substantiated good news the share price is in direct correlation with the manipulated POG.

Inevitably this reluctance by the new management to put their money money where their mouth is with the extended time scales on various issues, the Doropo uncertainty, the rumours of some possible friction with EMRA and the absence on any stamp duty on trades leaves Centamin extremely vulnerable to daily attack by the leveraged up parasitic CFD traders which in turn helps to bring about the erratic share price which does nothing to promote confidence in Centamin as an investment!

Has Centamin really changed, we await the substantiated proof!

A highly experienced mining analyst once described Doropo as "Hardly a dripping roast!"

No doubt Martin Horgan may present it as showing great potential, we shall see!

Possibly the "Bonanza grades" are lurking there?

The greenhouse gas emissions of Bitcoin mining alone could be sufficient to push global warming beyond the Paris Agreement's goal of holding anthropogenic climate warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

The top ten Bitcoin mining nations are together responsible for 92–94% of the global carbon, water, and land footprint of Bitcoin.

To offset the CO2 emissions of Bitcoin mining in 2021–2022, 3.9 billion trees must be planted, taking up an area equivalent to the size of the Netherlands, Switzerland, or Denmark, or 7% of the Amazon rainforest.

https://unu.edu/press-release/un-study-reveals-hidden-environmental-impacts-bitcoin-carbon-not-only-harmful-product

https://climate.mit.edu/posts/climate-impacts-bitcoin-mining-us

Steve,

Well you should care unless of course your profit comes before helping to reduce harmful emissions that contribute massively to global warming and saving our planet for for future generations.

if you take the trouble to look I was asked for a figure.

The topic is certainly is relevant as crypto and bitcoin are discussed members including on this forum and its time that the far reaching damage caused to our planets environment is brought to the attention of the wider global community.

For far too long stock market traders have been allowed to be in denial that their activities cause huge damage to global communities by causing instability and massive fluctuations in commodity prices and if that were not bad enough by trading crypto and bit coin mining they are now helping to overheat and poison the planets atmosphere!

A new report shows the mining of bitcoin uses more electricity than several entire nations!

The amount of energy used to mine the cryptocurrency has skyrocketed over the last year, as has its price.

Cambridge researchers say bitcoin mining activities consume around 121.36 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year.

That puts the annual electricity consumption above Argentina (121 TWh), the Netherlands (108.8 TWh) and the United Arab Emirates (113.20 TWh) - and just below Norway (122.20 TWh).

https://www.engineeringcareer.net.au/archived-news/bitcoin-brings-huge-energy-use

After cryptocurrency mining was banned in China in 2021, the amount of mining operations exploded in the United States.

In the year prior to July 2022, Bitcoin consumed an estimated 36 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, as much as all of the electricity consumed in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island put together in that same time period.

The past two years have demonstrated that the industry preferentially seeks readily-available energy and minimal regulation, re-starting defunct coal and gas plants, flooding the restructured electricity market in Texas, and tapping into power grids where regulators have little oversight.

This explosive growth strains energy grids, raises retail electricity rates, and increases total carbon emissions and local air pollution.

https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-environmental-impacts

Thank you MrHenderson,

I appreciate Dasut taking The trouble to put the question regarding the $100 million and indeed Siko taking the trouble to post an explanation in good faith and although Centamin's representative explained that there wasn't any $100 million outstanding to EMRA, this answer seems intentionally ambiguous!

Your first sentence "What if we look for the truth but didn't know where to search?" sums the situation up exactly and is a view I have expressed time and time again especially where retail shareholders are concerned!

So lets see what ensues over the coming months but that said I am very much inclined to agree with the rest of your post and I don't think it will be too long before there will be some announcements!

Thank you Tornado, for the link .

Crypto currencies are summed up exactly for what they are-

Crypto’s nonsense. It’s a failure. Nobody’s using it for any transactions. It’s trading one sh*tcoin for another sh*tcoin. That’s the entire trading or currency in the space where’s there’s price manipulation, spoofing, wash trading, pump and dumping, frontrunning. It’s just a big criminal scam and nothing else.”

Unfortunately there so many who are ignorant of the huge contribution to global warming caused by these crypto currencies, the traders won't see it or choose to ignore the damage they inflict on the planet with every trade they make and the crooked politicians are all too willing to turn a blind eye in return for the bribes paid to support their political campaigns by the shady shysters running these crypto scams!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962200007X

Military corporations need wars for profits. The human cost is huge

A new survey reveals the immense wealth and power of the arms industry. But we must remember that its product is death!

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/military-corporations-survey-wealth-profits-war-damage-death/

Looking at the overall list, three elements stand out as significant. One is the sheer size of the larger corporations. The current UK budget for all military spending – equipment, pay, research and the rest – stands at $68.5bn, but this is very nearly matched by a single military corporation, the US-based Lockheed Martin. Apart from the United States, with its massive $877bn budget, and China with $292bn, all the other states worldwide, including Russia, have budgets at or below the output of the largest corporations.

https://people.defensenews.com/top-100/?utm_campaign=dfn-ebb&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru&SToverlay=2002c2d9-c344-4bbb-8610-e5794efcfa7d

Though the U.S. has ended the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, military spending will likely continue increasing. The House overwhelmingly passed a defense spending bill for $768 billion in December 2021. The bill would increase the Pentagon’s budget by $24 billion more than President Joe Biden requested and is expected to pass easily in the Senate.

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/12/16/20-companies-profiting-the-most-from-war-5/

The Russian government denies that Stalin’s policies were aimed at a particular ethnicity and says that this means it was not an act of genocide.

Many observers have compared Russia’s current actions in Ukraine to the events of 1932-33. For research relating to the conflict and a parliamentary reading list on events in Ukraine dating back to 2014, see the Library’s Conflict in Ukraine hub.

The Russian government denies that Stalin’s policies were aimed at a particular ethnicity and says that this means it was not an act of genocide.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2023-0112/

So where does MR Putin think he might get steal some of the grain from to supply his allies including Eygpt from?

Drama based on a true story. In 1933, suspicious of Russia’s miraculous resurgence under Stalin, Gareth Jones escapes Moscow’s decadence and discovers Ukraine’s desperation. However, it is not just the Soviets who want word of the terrible reality suppressed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001k3tw/mr-jones

Madtaway

Before you defend Putin and accuse Nato of causing the Ukrainian war you would do well to understand why the Ukrainians are fighting so hard to defend their freedom.

Under the leadership of the Stalin’s close associate, the barbarous Lazar Kaganovich, teams of policemen and party officials smashed and stole their way through the Ukrainian countryside, entering houses and “confiscating” all available food, livestock and even pets!

They left nothing edible behind Non-Ukrainian Soviet citizens had been taught to distrust Ukrainians ever since the country had attempted to mould its own destiny in June 1917 by setting up a Ukrainian People’s Republic. This independent state, which resisted the armies of Vladimir Lenin during the Russian civil war, was to last only a few months. After several years of civil war, Ukraine became a Soviet Republic ruled from Moscow in December 1922. Ukrainian nationalism was seen from the beginning as a threat to the Bolshevik ideal, and was to be stamped out—at all costs.

During the famine of the 1930s, as peasants lay dying, the Soviet secret police began to repress all manner of Ukrainian intellectuals and officials who had tried to promote Ukraine’s language or history. Anyone with even the flimsiest connection to Ukrainian nationalism was liable to be vilified, arrested and sent to a labour camp or executed. It was a systematic assault not just on Ukraine, but on the idea of Ukraine. And it worked. The famine and repression of the Ukrainian intellectual classes eventually brought about “the Sovietization of Ukraine, the destruction of the Ukrainian national idea, and the neutering of any Ukrainian challenge to Soviet Unity.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/145953/stalin-starved-ukraine

Moreover, only with the independence of Ukraine, the ban on talking about the Holodomor was lifted.

https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/the-history-of-the-holodomor/

Madtaway,

I member your comments in support of Bully Putin regarding Crimea, unfortunately NATO let him get away with it!

A choice isn’t a choice when it is made with a gun to your head!

Yet the people of Crimea were forced to make an impossible choice: to vote to become subjugated by Russia; or to vote for independence - with no guarantee that Russia will show any more respect for the sovereignty of an independent Crimea than she did for the territorial integrity of an independent Ukraine.

The odds were clearly stacked in Russia’s favour - like the toss of a coin. Heads Russia wins. Tails Crimea loses!

The vote was both illegal and unconstitutional: there can be absolutely no doubt about that. The terms of the Ukrainian constitution were unequivocal: the vote can only be convened at the request of three million citizens; it must be an all-Ukraine referendum; and it can only be called by the Ukrainian Parliament.

None of these conditions were met!

The vote was illegitimate!

How can a ballot held in the shadow cast by the presence of armed Russian troops, in a region under military occupation, be anything else?

For the last two decades, we have sought to put the tension and mistrust of the Cold War behind us: to recognise the powerful and positive contribution Russia brings to the international community - and to the prosperity of all our people.

A web of international agreements and institutions has been put in place both to help avoid repeating the bitter confrontations of the past and to settle disputes peacefully.

Organisations like the OSCE and Council of Europe, of which Russia is an integral member, exist to help states address questions of self-determination and defend the rights of minorities.

But, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe - the standard bearer of electoral integrity - has declared that the referendum illegal didn't not send observers to the poll!

Sisi is backing on the wrong wicket here, he needs his head testing having a partnership with Putin's bunch of crooks and loser's !

Ukraine’s military said it had destroyed one of Russia’s newest and most advanced fighter jets in a drone strike on a military base deep inside Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_pmLcme_Bg

Over the weekend, reports broke of a Ukrainian drone strike that may have taken out one of Russia's exceedingly rare Su-57 Felons — the nation's newest and most advanced fighters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgc-_6KzeAA

Excellent news Well done Ukraine!