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Surely you mean "nappy bunnies"?

No bright spots for me so far today; worst is SigmaRoc down nearly 5%; the rest all down around 1%. But, at least PHC is holding last week's gains [for now, touch wood].

They say it is only money, but try to spend 'only money' instead of real money. One positive - I have a blueberry hot-cross bun to have with my mug of tea a little later.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2Fd4766d00-75ee-4382-9373-f326c89630e1

ouch

Stem Punk pensioners? I think they had more fun taking pills when they were Goths?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10508293/Steampunks-descend-seaside-town-Whitby-Steampunk-Weekend.html

Must be a placing there soon with the sp so high

5 Live news headlines is the Ukraine may sign a treaty not to join NATO to avoid war; Nolan has an interview with their Ambassador coming up.

There will be some selling to take more defensive positions, including cash, so expect companies with high P/E ratios or cash burners to take a hit. Anything relying on discretionary spending or companies with high debt ratios should suffer a bit.

Food / farming and energy to benefit...

Mirasol,

Stop ramping - the 'paper' is 'the issue of 0.680 Sound Energy ordinary shares for each Angus ordinary share'. The current Bid on SOU shares is 1.75p so the offer is now worth 1.19p a share [if you were able to sell at the bid]. SOU would have to increase their offer by 26% just to get back to a valuation of 1.5p at their current valuation.

Peppa Pig World?

"We are NOT FRACKING. We do not want to and do not need to because the rock formations we’re targeting are naturally fractured by Mother Nature and can flow oil & gas sufficiently well on their own. This statement of fact is supported by our activities at Horse Hill near Gatwick Airport and at Broadford Bridge near Billingshurst."

https://www.ukogplc.com/ul/Dunsfold_1_Booklet_digital_copy.pdf

The only was it 'Could get interesting' is if a misguided person made a large investment on the basis that they thought that UKOG wanted to frack or that the process was likely to be useful on their acreage. So not much use for UKOG?

Wrong board - apologies

"We are NOT FRACKING. We do not want to and do not need to because the rock formations we’re targeting are naturally fractured by Mother Nature and can flow oil & gas sufficiently well on their own. This statement of fact is supported by our activities at Horse Hill near Gatwick Airport and at Broadford Bridge near Billingshurst."

https://www.ukogplc.com/ul/Dunsfold_1_Booklet_digital_copy.pdf

The only was it 'Could get interesting' is if a misguided person made a large investment on the basis that they thought that UKOG wanted to frack or that the process was likely to be useful on their acreage.

'80p placing' - crumbs; that must hurt; the share price is not even a penny now.

The New Zealand authorities are using Barry Manilow to try and drive away anti-vax protestors... Nasty.

Great puff-piece; when is the next placing expected? Mining does not come cheap...

evi,

He is not even 5 foot 6 - he wears high heels like a cross dresser. That is only a couple of inches taller than Pritti Patel (my spellchecker does not recognise "Pritti"; she is less important than she thinks).

'Bluffs and counterbluffs, threats and counterthreats—more rarely, actual fights with victories and defeats—all these take place among nonhuman animals. In those cases, the stakes are lower than between Russia and the West over Ukraine. Whether our wisdom is any higher remains to be seen.'

https://nautil.us/the-wild-world-of-threats-13512/

In theory, if QE pushed down bond yields and pushed up inflation, then QT should do the opposite. Analysts reckon the process will begin sometime in the summer.

Why are investors worried?

Traders and investors have been bruised by past experience.

The Fed has only tried QT once before, in 2018, and it didn't go so well for markets. Stocks fell sharply in 2018, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 6%. After about 10 months, the central bank reversed the policy.

Yet Hugh Gimber, global strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, said 2018 is a bad guide because there was so much else going on, not least the US-China trade war.

Nonetheless, this is "definitely an uncertain time for investors," he told Insider.

QT on this scale has never been attempted before. From May 2022 to May 2023, the four biggest central banks – the US, eurozone, UK and Japan – are expected to reduce their balance sheets by $2 trillion, according to Morgan Stanley economists. That's four times more than in 2018.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/quantitative-tightening-explained-qt-federal-reserve-bonds-stocks-interest-rates-2022-2

Surely he should be given the respect he deserves; a double-barrelled name, speaks like a toff and has had the same nanny since birth.

Oh, I see what you mean. Needing a wet nurse so late in life...