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Oh for goodness’ sake. Whilst most of your spamming is little more than water off a duck’s back (after all, it’s not easy to take the image of a poorly, subordinate male deer too threateningly), your progression from mild irritation to becoming deliberately alarmist does you - or anyone reading for that matter - no favours whatsoever.
As dull and repetitive as your monologues often are, on the whole they have generally fallen within a reasonable spectrum of interpretation as to where the the company currently finds itself. By invoking the spectre of suspension today you are either being deliberately provocative (well done you, I reacted) or, inadvertently revealing your lack of understanding and appreciation for events as they are likely to unfold.
Neither of which do you any favours, imo.
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Good luck to everyone who takes the time to contact their new MP - I wish you well. No doubt each one of those newly bestowed the franchise will be brimming with good intentions, therefore now may well be the most opportune moment for you to strike. However, and as sheps alluded to, it won’t be too long before they will likely find themselves bending to the will of the Tory party machine. As every single new Tory MP had to subscribe to Johnson’s doctrine and intentions in order to first be selected, I shouldn’t imagine it will be too long before the first round of disappointment starts to kicks in. If, despite his years in office, and now serving his fourth leader also, Robert Goodwill can be given the brush-off, I don’t much fancy the chances of your new young tyros putting their necks on the block for Sirius.
I’d like to be wrong.
For the record, despite meeting the Sirius team on multiple occasions - and having enjoyed Sirius’ hospitality on more than one occasion too - this is what Robert Goodwill had to say of the potential for assistance from a Johnson government: “ "I think the answer from the Government is the final answer. I've already been involved; I spoke directly to the Prime Minster on the 2nd of September and I spoke to Treasury Ministers that week. I know the Mayor of Tees Valley, Ben Houchen, has also spoken to Ministers including Jake Berry, who's the Northern Powerhouse Minister.
So we made as many representations as we could, we explored every single angle to bring pressure to bear. It appears that this is something quite unprecedented; not the sort of thing the Treasury would normally do.I think their view is, is that there's a lot of money around the world, looking for a safe house to invest; a lot of big mining companies around the world who are looking for new projects and maybe by going it alone, Sirius have maybe bitten off a little bit more than they can chew and they need to find a big, strong partner to help bring this project to fruition."
Regards,
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No RNS today thank you, because there’s little chance of positive news this morning. Today is a day to bury bad news.
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“Just trying to keep it real.......”
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Good job, Vern...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfz0tDQZhqs
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They’re not glitches, typos, harbingers of doom, or even particularly strange* for that matter. They were ‘agency cross transactions’ — and whilst I’m not particularly keen to get drawn on the reasons behind the trades, they are nothing more than transactions made by a broker/advisor who happens to act for both the buyer and the seller. I also suspect the initial trade was transactacted in USD - hence the 5.
*as in a peculiar sense.
Regards,
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Good morning, tuckupp. As we both know, there are a many who appreciate your weekly injections of humour here, and I very much doubt that you intend to deliberately cause any real offence. With that in mind, it would be a good thing - and I’m sure appreciated - if you could be rather more circumspect with some of your subject matter. And choosing not to perpetuate tired, old, offensive and racist stereotypes would be a good place to start.
Many thanks,
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Dunno why you’d bother with the trades tab here. It’s invariably lacking detail and of misleads people with inaccurate buy/sell determinations. If you want accurate trade data, why not look on the exchange itself?
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/exchange-insight/trade-data.html?fourWayKey=GB00B0DG3H29GBGBXSSMM
Regards,
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“Should we be surprised? Not at all. They fu***cked up big time. Fact.”
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Meanwhile... your Damascene moments continue to encourage and inspire.
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“ Large spread indicates MM's reluctant to trade - any trades - they take the 5% - bookies never lose.”
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Whilst Market Maker prices will have a bearing (they are on the order book after all), a large spread in a SETS traded equity will more than likely mean little more than a lack of liquidity. And as far as Sirius is concerned, perhaps that should not be too surprising. In recent terms, yesterday was a pretty high volume day, so it would be reasonable to surmise that perhaps some of the less sticky shares changed hands then. So the spread today simply reflects the amount any buyer is hoping to pay to hoover up Sirius shares , while the offer tells us how much the stickier hands will need to loosen up.
Don’t think MMs are having much input whatsoever personally. Perhaps someone with looking at L2 can tell us who is currently top of the bid & ask?
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“Simple arithmetic will tell you that's 3 trees per second every second till 2040!”
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I’d sorta hope there’d be more than one person on the job, mesen.
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See, KOH - sometimes there’s the perfect time and place for your contempt. And on this occasion it’s good to see you play a blinder.
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“as the EU shackles will have been thrown off.”
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If you could clarify what exactly these shackles might be, how they work, and demonstrate how you perceive that they might currently be holding us back, oh.. and hopefully offer some conjecture outlining how you can realistically conceive things being any different post any Brexit scenario, then, I’d be delighted to read your thoughts.
Failing that, I guess I’ll have to conclude you’re just banging a typically empty anti-EU drum without really knowing much about it. And - as ever with such things - making plenty of noise about it.
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“we are obviously doomed”
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Indeed. To the inane repetition of the intellectually arrested.
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“You can pollute the boards with abandon until I return”
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Sod that. How about the two of you take your long running spat elsewhere?
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Bill Shaver, eh? Wouldn’t mind if he could shave a few of our bills!
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Can’t argue with any of that. Many thanks for the classy response.
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“If that is real news I would expect to see the SP rise today in preparation.”
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Why? From my perspective I see little more than an industry specific showcase of the latest designs, processes, equipment and methodology involved in sinking a shaft. I doubt there will be much to glean of any significance pertaining to Sirius that the company haven’t published themselves. And I am certain there won’t be anything to take away that will have any relevance to Sirius as a company, its financial position or its plans.
If the tech aspect inspires you then that’s terrific, but, unless Chris Fraser pitches up to announce we’re fully funded, I wouldn’t think for one minute think that the share price will bat an eyelid.
I’d be delighted to be wrong though.
Cheers,
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As amusing and harmless and as it may be, isn’t it these sort of guessing games - and the lighthearted and perhaps superficial approach that they suggest - just the sort of thing that exercises cynics and naysayers, thus leading them to contribute in the manner so many are expressing great relief from reading?
Just sayin’...
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“MM's have capped the SP at 3.204.”
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So how does that work on a SETS traded stock?
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Quite understandably short positions will always provide a source of interest or fascination to long holders of equity. And because such positions are invariably taken by financial professionals who it is commonly assumed will know what they are doing, they are often used as ammunition by a company’s detractors to underscore whatever negativity it is they are espousing. Additionally they can become source of concern to shareholders leading them to question what it is they might have overlooked or might be missing. With that in mind it is worth noting that Citadel increased their short position on Friday by selling something like 10million shares.
Guess they didn’t know we’d hit the 4’s and still manage to hold in the 3’s the very next trading day then?
From this we can hopefully take two things. One, that when third parties are not involved the good ship Sirius appears to be a little more watertight than usual. And two, the hedge funds going short don’t know everything either.
Cheers,