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Perfect storm scenario is the best description. No credible party to run UK. Trump threatening trade and physical wars like John Wayne in a shoot out all over the place. Oil price on the rise. UK Airline shares all falling for fear of passenger numbers declining. An extraordinary anomaly between the Dow Jones and the FTSE valuation. Some financial institutions will be obliged to take more of a cash position in the current geopolitical crisis by law. Simply more sellers around than buyers and plenty of shorting, a practice that even the C of E admit to using. Germany tried banning it but found it made little difference. Simply more sellers than buyers at the moment. That will of course all change in time question is will it be months or years? Classic volatility which can occur before major corrections if one is coming. Impossible to predict with so much uncertainty. I just keep monitoring where value looks best, buy a few more and then they seem to get cheaper ! I was always told to leave room to trade. Quite difficult to do in a falling market which I guess why shorting has become a normal part of investing for many.

But will probably be next PM. Hopefully a brief affair

Mayhem! Nobody expected the Brexit result, hence no plan. Cameron had to resign. May should have resigned when she went to the country to try and increase her majority. She got her answer then and should have gone . Boris too canny!

I'm with iWeb. was about to go with Lloyds, but then realised iWeb is basically owned by Lloyds via th Halifax etc,. They reduce joining fee from£250 to £25.00 including no fee ISA. £5.00 flat fee per trade. Bit limited on some investments. Must check out whether they trade SMT cos there some investment trusts they don't trade. They do have stop loss and order service which I have not yet used . Only been with them a couple of months. So far so good!

what is going on here. Little news no posts, but seems to have avoided the carnage of other stock, whilst make mysterious moves in both directions on no volume. MMs game playing to create action?

seems like a lot of stock at the moment, range bound between £4.97-£5.10. If the concern was just about Brexit (the outcome of which does not effect IAG according to Walsh) Then we could have expected a significant bounce. Trouble is on top of that we have the two largest economies behaving like spoilt children without a care for the responsibility of their position on the rest of the world. Definitely the divi prospect is supporting the sp at the moment, but underlying that they must be the most solvent airline operating apart from maybe the Norwegian airline. Oil prices are a concern but that problem is more of a weight on budget operators. Could see a a fuel surcharge being levied on flights which could further impact volumes. Longer term this is the class act.

I like the Lloyds board its a bit like the Archers meets Twin Peaks

Bang on cue. AGM statement. Looks ok. Little more info on expansion detail might have helped. Pretty much as expected, but the market may expect more for the money spent.

20 years is quite a time to come up with two posts. MW is correct in saying averaging down is not a good investing strategy, unless you only invested part of what you originally intended to. Stock will always move around. I invested less here than I was going to and not planning to to put any more in because until there is better news there are far better investments in other companies Imo. Even then I don't think there is any hurry to put money into the market in the current situation. Three i have done really well in the last feyyears since the rights issue but even they are cautious in the current climate. GL to all, this is not a walking the park!

Norges Bank took a position here recently. Seeming to be almost immune to the recent turmoil this is quite a big step down (16p altogether). Has debt resurfaced as a concern or impatience on implementation of the new plans. Technically on the chart front direction will be quite decisive tomorrow unless there is a decent update soon

rangebound between £7.26-£7.46 since Trumpet threw his last lot of toys out of the pram

Fair point. Whoes to say it won't get worse. The market does not forgive or forget and Vod investors have been trashed too many times. Utter arrogance.

Good search. Like the Comex silver gained nearly 70% at the end. Not sure we want to go through all the other stuff again though. Did you know the most accurate form of weather forecasting is looking at historical weather maps for similar patterns recurring? Figures really. Forget the clever computer stuff and percentages etc. GL

True to his word Mr Walsh has unloaded 700,000 shares so far, a tad more than the divorce settlement?

When all else fails come up with a takeover theory. BT phone Vodafone!

China crisis again, and if its not them its a Trump tweet, although he has weakened is stance slightly apparently, which is slightly worrying as this could mean another deluge of ........The ting is will they raise or lower interest rates in th US, with the amount of damage he does just opening his mouth I guess they will hold for now. Although allegedly the market is reacting more sensibly to his random thoughts. Should they be reacting at all?

Difficult to make sense of charts at the early stage in this volatility with a lunatic running the asylum and the financial world hanging on his every tweet and several potential (trade and physical) wars in the offing. Nice recovery so far but expect a lot more volatility over the summer. Too unpredictable to swing trade yet. Drip feed for the longer term at best Imo

Talking of history of overpaying was it really in Feb 2000 they took over Mannesmann bringing the sp down from £3.00 to £1.50Everyone saying o well in a few years Vod will be up and away and we will realise how cheap this was. Well 20 years on and its £1.25. As the Guardian puts it 'a dull utility'. Great investment for the supplier of plastic blue cricket bats and stumps for kwik cricket. Perhaps they should have stuck with that!

Unless you have level 2 or can see the order books the LSE share trades are about as much use as broker forecasts, wildly inaccurate and a small part of the picture The fact is its held up pretty well in the recent shakeout. Maybe buyers think this as safe as anywhere at the moment. I'm still holding and bought a few more last week.Not that thats a good sign lol!

for finally getting to grips with the market cap after 6 months, now try and get the sp right! Billywallstreet .com reckon this is worth 47% more. You could probably say that about a lot of shares. The proof as they say will be in the pudding or number 44 on the wagama menu. So nearly back in but this has held up remarkably well considering.