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I think not, IMO a price of £23 will do the business. Naturally you should be holding the other 2 Water cards, and I too have a bias towards UU, as the next contender.

Swap an injured FTSE stock with a div. for an AIM stock(aaz) with NO div.? LOL.

MONEY!!! First an Oil Major or a consortium would pay a premium to buy the company. The recipe for rabbit pie reads, 'first catch your rabbit..'

The Evil Empires that exist to make profits for their shareholders without regard to Moral Obligations should heed the words of Humpty Dumpty, 'When I use the word "tax" it means just what I choose it to mean - nether more nor less'. Wait! wait!! Where are you all going?

Read previous posts on this BB. Suggest you stay away from consolidations like this until you get it.

Reginia will be much missed by, well NO ONE in the Water business. Least of all PNN's bod.

Not exactly. More like a shot across the bows. Do YOU ever make your best offer first?? This is 'Not at this price'. Blue Gold has lots of fans and would be suitors.

This particular trick has been played on me twice before, your money is stolen and divided among the other shareholders. Shortly after, the SP moves up disproportionately.

I do recall Alistair Darling's relish at shafting Northern Rock's shareholders, in order to save the Bank where he had his mortgage. Must give us pause for thought.. I understand that SSE is flogging some its wind farms off, having extracted a fixed forward contract on wind produced electricity? Any bigger brains in the house to correct this assumption? If true, SSE get cash to redress debts & maintenance costs, I presume?

You hold them ALL including DRAX, UU. and SVT. UU. is thought to be the most likely water utility for M&A as it is a straight water play, unlike PNN. It is noted that CNA has the best debt ratio, of the power utilities, so overweight on those two.

HMGOV has agreed/guaranteed the price of UK biomass generated electricity, can't see what the EU has to do with it.

I regard ABG as my least dirty shirt because of the divi. & FTSE status. Gold shares are only .5% of my PF. Largest holdings are TSCO,VOD,UU.,SSE equal to half my PF.

My average is over 400p, waiting for that elusive 500p+ T/O.. All my other goldies rubbish as well.

I think the market is reacting to a possible sale depressing POG in the short-term. But this crisis is EXACTLY why you keep a strategic store of non-printable money. Do the SAS carry pound notes or gold Sovs?

'It's a mad world my masters', but in what parallel universe does the ability to charge DOUBLE for electricity generated, result in a 'Sell' rating, over to you, Cantor Fitzgerald. 'Fitz' is the prefix for Royal bastards, BTW.

US$ is the least dirty shirt in the CCY wardrobe. Glad I bought some for holidays at 2.00 to the £. I would personally like to see a bit more Gold in our vaults, but Gordon Brown had read some Keynes, & sold half at a rubbish price, the sale leaked so Johnny Foreigner knew not to overpay. The Treasury were aghast, but the boss knew best. I have NEVER heard an explanation for this totally stupid move, perhaps he should put one in his memoirs. The $ Will cease to be topdog in about 50yrs time, IMO

I agree with the Bloomberg guy,' everything has been done by the Fed. Tk devalue the $, but it will remain the defacto ccy of the World. ' I keep a lot of greenbacks on hand & favur stocks which report in $. Hqve a few goldies as well, which have been disqppointing.

Dear boy, I try not to trade as I am a disciple of Mr Buffett. I sold some ARM last year around 640p as they were obviously overpriced & waited for the re-trace, to buy back in - still waiting! VOD is currently the second biggest share in my PF, after TESCO. I have a typical pyramid PF, FTSE foundations, narrowing to AIM at the top, NO BANK shares. I am pants at trading, so I try to buy & hold. My aim stocks are proving 'The triumph of Hope over Experience'. Heres my question: I wont sell WEIR at this price, would you?

Why bother? Weir make the valves for the fracking fraternity so you've got it covered already, but it's only about 7% of their total business, so better than a one trick pony.

You are so right! Who needs continuous growth in SP & dividends? This 150 yr old company is the most shorted in the FTSE100, yet INSISTS on raising profits for it's shareholders with no regard at all for wicked speculators & de-rampers. LOL