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Uncle doug shares are of an amount of the company.

If the company buys back shares there's less in total and so each individual share is worth a larger proportion of the company.

Also if you have holdings outside an isa or pension you potential pay capital gains on dividends.

950k migrants came to the UK last year but the mail and telegraph have you jumping up and down about the 30k who came on boats.

You already sent back all the workers from the EU and now you are wondering why the economy is not growing?

I'd say your part of the electorate get what they call for but just want to fain ignorance when the consequences of your actions start to bite.

You have to be very hard leaning Tory to look past tax dodging Zahawi and country crashing Kwarteng.

Osbourne set us all on the calamitous austerity path so may still hold this mantel, at least for 21st century but not sure Reeves features yet on the list.

The UK interest rates are high predominantly to the ideology of the BoE board and crazy UK rules.

First instead of just allowing gilts to expire and remove them from the BoE's balance sheet they are actively selling billions into the market at a loss and therefore competing against the government for buyers which pushes prices up.

Second, and as far as I know only in the UK (certainly not US or EU) when the central bank makes a loss of gilts/bonds, the UK government, with our tax money, makes it whole despite the fact a central bank who 'prints' debt in it's own currency can't go bust.

So as well as costing the Government, and therefore us as the people of the country, more to borrow, they are also taking tax and borrowed money out of out coffers to balance a virtual book that doesn't need balancing (at current QT rate that's £24 billion per year going to the BoE and not going to NHS, education, infrastructure, etc, etc.)

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Why is it going up?

Are we expecting something big from the chancellor?

Sell the news?

Either way it's certainly going well.

Might want to check your broker as I've had mine from II and HL

Didn't seem to do much for US stocks.

Is it a case of what we've heard a hundred times from Trump only for Putin to have no interest in speaking?

Maybe be a jump here with people trying to get positions but until Putin actually shows something I don't expect getting near £1

miners are cyclical and follow the macro news as any kind of slow down in economies will affect their revenue.

if you check the last year bhp are down over 30% anto***asta almost 40% so whilst glencore is down a lot it's not the only miner that's fallen.

obviously in the current environment it's hard to know how the world economy will be doing in the next week let alone the next year and companies don't like uncertainly, esp ones like miners where you can't just turn mines off and on at a whim.

imo anyway

I had been moving money into my ISA to buy more tomorrow :(

Why couldn't he have waited one my day before bottling it?!

Definitely can't afford to be out of the market with this guy though as on a whim he can move prices massively in either direction.

A nightmare would be more some kind of fraud going on.

This is just markets worried there may be a recession in US along with an expected drop in demand given companies were stockpiling at the start of the year to hedge in case tariffs came in

I just bought more here too, was picking up American stocks yesterday.

you've done very well at 247 imo unless you are trying to daytrade I wouldn't worry about how low it goes in the next week or so as I'm sure before the end of they year you'll be very happy with your buy price.

Any drop is an option to buy more but so many discounts out there it's like a kid in a sweet shop!

Buy when there's blood in the street, even if the blood is your own!

You don't miss anything in the green boxes, just bitter lemon and his comrades pumping his masters lies.

Really stupid that they are so obvious must be the bottom of the barrel, hopefully get sent to the front line soon to see how 'proxy' the war is.

Putin hopes his puppet in the whitehouse can give him all he wants but it won't happen. Europe is still a free society even if the US has fallen (though I suspect only a temporary fall and perhaps this Trump regime will snap Americans out of their daze)

Despite the falsehoods that even Trump is saying Russia is a 3rd world country economically and militarily. Little Ukraine with no 'real' weapons have easily fought them to a standstill. 2 or 3 European countries, let alone all of them, would wipe out Russian military in hours it's comparing sticks and stones against lightening.

I think it could still be a long haul for Ferrexpo and Ukraine as Putin will not accept anything Trump could get through as a ceasefire. Trump wants to run away like he did in Afghanistan but at least this time Europe won't wear it.

It's probably good overall that Trump got voted back in as it means Europe realise they need to stand on their own and instead of worrying about each other, realise they should be the most powerful continent in the world.

Even without realising it, they can easily contend with the piper tiger of Russia.

The Russian bots are out in force this morning.

@Onsolidground for your own growth, rare and critical minerals are two different categories.

None of those you, or Trump, have talked about are rare earth minerals. In fact Ukraine has very little of them and any they do have are in the area currently occupied by Russia so if Trump wants his hands on those he's going to need Putin to go back home.

"In the first nine weeks of 2025, our net private sales rate per outlet per week was 0.67, up 14% compared to the same period last year"

Good obviously but will be interesting to see if this is just demand pulled forward due to the stamp duty change next month or a 'real' increase.

Hopefully the latter.

LoungeLizard you have to ignore bitterlemon and the rest or the ruskies on here.

They have no understanding except what their handlers tell them to write on here.

I will say that being so bad and obvious in their comments in won't surprise me if they are soon sent to the front line as 'volunteers' given Russia has no military left which is why all they can do is throw long range drones and missiles from back in Russia at houses and hospitals.

they are a scared army looking to run which is why Putin's had to lean so hard on Trump to try and force a Ukraine submission.

And at the same time these guys are still trying to act like Europe should fear this weak country. They can't even get control of Ukraine let alone fighting fully equipped armies like those in Europe.

US or no US Europe and UK would wipe out Russia's military in hours and these little keyboard warriors know it which is why they are so upset that you and others point out reality.

I know lots on here are just paid Russian talkers but all you have to do is look it up and even Ukraine's opposition parties say you can't have elections until after the war so you trying to push it as somehow democratic is just showing you up.

Guess the more capable keyboard warriors have been sent to the frontline given less and less armament and tanks are being seen on it as the Russian economy dies.

He just wants out so he can say the war's over.

He sees Ukraine as the side he can bully into doing what he wants so is only going after them whilst at the same time helping Russia.

It's the same playbook as when he ran away from the Taliban, he takes all the troops out, gives them back all their prisoners, says things he will do to help or protect without actually agreeing anything in writing, then does a quick victory lap knowing/hoping no one pays attention as the country is destroyed from his betrayal.

The art of the con.

He's definitely not doing what the voters want, you need to take your head out of your twitter feed and see the spiking inflation, even before his tariff taxes were put on top.

There was no 'war' with Russia whilst they invaded Moldovia, and Georgia and Crimea, so you are just showing yourself as for Putin rather than for peace.

The attacks on civilians in Ukraine has got worse lately now Putin knows Trump is in Russia's pocket, as he has been since 1987.