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Morning all. A sad indeed T. I do admire the spirit of the Ukrainians and their optimism in defiance of tis horrific act of aggression. I see Putin claims he has no intention of occupying Ukraine! Seeing as everything he has said so far has been a lie I don't why he even bothers making statements anymore. Its all out in the open for his own people to see, and they must realise how the rest of the world feels about it, so its as much up to the Russian people to stop Putin as the UN. As you say T Putin has had plenty of time to feather his nest, but there is nowhere in the world he can hide. Despite all his wealth and gold Sadam Hussain's only hiding place was a hole in the ground

Morning all. Interesting clip of Putin seemingly toying with and being quite condescending to his spy chief. Why does he feel the need to rather unsurely publicly declare his support for his leaders decision, and be almost mocked for doing so? I wonder if his own position may become less secure in the coming months as far as his own people are concerned. So many distractions now its hard to know what and how the market is going to be effected by next

I think it might be wise to hang on for the opening in the USA even though the FTSE has barely batted an eyelid so far. The jury seems to be out over what if anything sanctions can achieve. Putin is a wily old fox , knows just how fast and far to push. A dangerous game but if he can keep things under control he may well achieve his objectives however much the west doth protest. The west and Europe will be seen to have done what they can and Russia will gain territory as he did in Crimea.
Love the picture of Sturgeon wearing a tartan sporran over her face whilst proclaiming whatever Johnson does she will do it differently just to be independent, except of course she isn't

Morning all. T I guess as one would expect is the over riding theme is ignore short term volatility and hold for the long term in conviction stocks. Clearly the y area bit rattled by record withdrawal from some of their funds during January. I think also a feeling that the market is very muddled at the moment and is no capable of recognising the wheat from the chaff. I was surprised how many of their funds have unlisted companies as well as the some of the biggest corps. If I'd have stayed mostly in BG funds that I bought in March 2020 I would be far better off now. However their rise from pre pandemic has not been as spectacular but still impressive largely thanks to the Dow. They are saying that the debate of value versus growth is misleading because the two things are actually quite closely correlated hence their faith in Amazon. I had to check on my memory about whether the Beatles ever sued Apple over infringement using the name of their record company. Indeed they did in 1980 and accepted out of court for $80,000! Could have been a few more noughts on that....although under Job I also remember they nearly went bust

Bigt calmer today. Lull before next storm. Ballie Gifford have some great investment podcasts with I find quite useful in terms of their thinking about future investment trends. Obviously a bit longer term strategies but Monks talk about amongst others how and why the market called Amazon wrong for many years.
Love the old bill giving Boris a questionnaire to fill in. They should do this with all criminals. Tick box. Were you at a party? yes/no. Was there alcohol? yes/no. Were there more than 6,10, 20, 50-100 people at the party? Please choose one, etc. Brilliant!

T. Very like disruption will continue, especially with chip manufacturing which affects just about everything all fuelling inflation. I think a biscuit manufacturer was trying to explain how the rise in container shipping has bone up from $1,000 permit last year to $15,000 this year. Thats quite a multi bagger! Then there are all the other costs like ingredients, wages , marketing packaging etc. No reason these costs cannot subside when supplies normalise. Petrol now at record highs, yet oil is still a third lower than its record high. How does that work? Well Bp and RDS have both more than doubled thats how. A big part of the reason why the Ftse regained the 7000s. Still all in it together and levelled up my rse.

Morning all. In typical contrarian stile the FTSe is actually up 22 points at the moment and Japan was down less than half a percent. Just shows how mad it is to predict share price movement. A much bigger game going on out there which we are not privy to. Stay safe and warm GL all

Good luck T and anyone else on the west side. Sounds like its going to be quite a day. Best stay in doors if you can and dont leave anything liable to take off lying around in the garden. Only too much you can do. I well remember the 87 storm having just moved in to a new old house. We watched in amazement as our neighbours greenhouse 'floated' across the garden completely in one piece. Haven't paid much attention to markets today as we have to let these morons who rule the world sort themselves out

Gooday for drizzly old east coast. Managed to get dog out earlier fortunately, Still got pretty blasted. Settled down to a presentation by BG Japanese presentation with a Japanese fund manager. Worst mistake? Selling stock too soon! I guess we have all done that. More good news from CNIC keeping the stock bubbling away, yet moe upgrades and another small acquisition. Otherwise pretty flat.
Western Governments seem to be a little sceptical about Russian retreat. I suppose they are the ones doing the war mongering and not keen to end up with egg on face . I think Rasputin was just feeling a bit lonely so wanted some people to come and chat to him. Bit heavy handed way of asking. They are all insecure, insane and desperate to be top dog and would sell their own grandmothers, daughters etc to stay that way

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T . I think I was more saddened than spitting feathers at the pathetic state of this country in some aspects. Interesting interview from some Russian official stating that the west's estimation of the number of their forces is typical western propaganda. As the PM's ability for telling porkies is now legendary. As NB suggests it wouldn't surprise me at all if we had helped coerce the Ukraine into believing they were about to be attacked so we could shore up defences, get American missiles hard up against Russian boundaries and deflect domestic trifles. They obviously get their intelligence (if ever their was an inappropriate name formed up information!) from us and the States. Using a 78 year old Ukrainian grandmother to shoulder arms for a propaganda press shoot is about as pathetic as it gets. All helping to create record oil and petrol prices. Anyway the Dow is down about .89% but the Ftse is down nearly 2%. Typical

Morning all. Weather forecaster about as accurate as broker forecasts. Lovely day again. ent to Gatwick on Friday to pick up some family. The website said yo could park for free at the south terminal where the rail station is and people could get a shuttle fro the north terminal because planes are not using the south terminal to land. So we duly parked up only to discover there were no buses. There were two numbers to ring for a bus. Must have been about a dozen cars parked up. Any way naturally there was no answer from either numbers and customer service kiosk was shut with a notice saying ' for customer security these premises are checked annually ! Eventually a traffic cop turned up and asks to leave. Only problem the first barrier we tried to exit didn't work. We rang for assistance and were advised to try and find a barrier that did operate. We did find our guests and get safely back. I left feedback saying it wasn't even a third world airport. It felt more like and end of world airport. God knows what RasPutin thinks he's doing, but it doesn't look good and the markets dont appear to like it either.
Tin hat day for sure sure T. Thank heavens for rugby!

T. John Major is the latest. although not his first attack on BJ's damaging global image of the UK. He is clearly not following the science as one scientist commented on the lifting of restrictions 'its either foolish or brave.' The truth is its neither , its purely a political selfish irresponsible gamble. Thats BJ all over. This is how he has always behaved in before he became Mayor of London. The Topdog is supposed to be in to serve his country. The old Etonians have on many occasions demonstrated they are in it for their own ego and personal fortune.' Levelling up' is another catchphrase from the book of Johnson's stuff and nonsense. What we are seeing is levelling down, while billionaires are doubling their money year on year.

T. Having a laugh is about the best we can do at the moment. Seems like we are going to be stuck with Boris for the foreseeable. At least it looks like we have a decent chancellor which is probably more important. They would only get another clown for us to laugh at. 'I will survive' seems to have lightened the mood. Perhaps he could do his zip wire act again, preferably over the Thames this time. Gove isn't particularly funny, just weird. Rees-Smog now Brexit opportunities minister! I don't know how he's going to beat the Pharoe Isles trade deal, one of our top ten new trade deals last year.

T. Interesting how Ocdo had been climbing recently. I was just ruing not buying yesterday and then they drop these results. Not even sure that the patent suit is fully sorted yet. Just back from throwing the ball as close to the waters edge as I could for the dog, but the gout's back. Really must curb that dog's alcohol intake!

Flippin Heck. Its really thin ice this market. Shorters paradise with weak volumes. Like N I am celebrating anything that gets back to break even at the moment. CNC which is one of my oldest stocks has drifted off 25% now Bach in profit just, Very little news or trading. Had a bit of a conflab with the chair of SWG yesterday about there continuing dire performance. He said of all the companies he has chaired over the years this is the most perplexing. They are in profit with no debt, winning new orders but the sp is 60% down after the results last April. On a PE of about 3! a techie. So if that happens to companies doing well....

N. I think you may well be right about predetermined changes. Ford has transformed a game before coming on as a sub wth something to prove, Smith had played a blinder and I think they just felt fresh legs might bolster a critical stage of the game. The pivotal moment was not being astute enough to realise that without an experienced line thrower we were very exposed to the incident that of course happened Marler throws a stupid rushed ball, possession Scotland on 10 metre line. That was poor management or maybe they were denied an immediate replacement for Dickie. I don't think England are out of it by any means, and purely on game play this weekend I would go for Scotland or England to win the championship. Its obviously going to be close and team selection and availability will be key.
Just read a right up on trust watch saying how muddled the market is. Born out by wider nav discounts and undervalued shares. Now some commentators are calling a recession. Growth is likely to be limited as we know thanks in large part to supply shortages. We have the ridiculous situations though where orders are plentiful but queues are lengthening. Unsurprisingly Tesco say prices will go up more. Thats why we shop at Lidl! They do reasonable range of organic at least 20% cheaper and some fantastic wines well below a tenner. 3 different Italian red Puglias between £5-7. All very drinkable. Cheers

Silly me. Dickie is our hooker (good title for a song). His sending off left England with the farcical spectacle of Mahler 's already questionable history of handling balls, throwing in well short of 5 metres. Bit of a messy end to an otherwise stirling effort

Opening weekend for 6 nations. Ireland really outperformed. Don't quite understand whats taken Wales wheels off so dramatically. England too are having to restructure , although I feel Farrel's absence is a bit of a bonus. Its May's knee injury that has cost us dear. Don't think Dickie could have done much else in that situation, but the most obvious deliberate knock on of all time as well as illegally patting the ball into touch was not the best bit of rugby I've seen from a prop, injuring his back in the process of giving away victory to Scotland in a very tight game. Maybe Scotland's time has finally come again after an epic climb back to the top. Cant tell much from the European tie. Suspect Italy played pretty well while France played well within themselves. If they hadn't added the extra try in stoppage time that would have been a very mediocre scoreline. Looks like another year without a grand slam winner. Looking forward to some more tense exciting games, and another tense exciting week in the markets!

Well done T. I suppose its a question of calling the bottom, which is pretty difficult in this market. Every time I try that it seems to get cheaper the next day and I think thank god I decided not to buy any more. Interesting discussion started up on Stockopedia this morning about the credibility of certain auditing houses. They have been under a lot of pressure in the pandemic simply to catch up. Seems a lot of companies now coming forward that their figures were not quite as good as previously reported. Of course directors have long since sold their shares and cashed up options. FSA anywhere to be seen? I think not