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Its taken me a while to do it but at this price, it has to be done. This should take off fairly soon with all this oil flowing....

Here's to a Happy Christmas!!

who know?? Share prices generally tend to rise sharply when a stock buy-back is announced. Less shares on the market means less dividends to pay out, lower capital etc

Share price will go up slightly cos the ex-dividend date is a couple of days away, then no doubt it will drop later in the week...

Lets see how much they get for their 47% stake....

Unbelievable Tony, my heart goes out to you. I got 'spiked' in May of last year, managed to average down to 0.16p since then, now this!!

The last paragraph has me puzzled...... Six months after suspension (9th May) trading will be cancelled if the don't publish the required AIM Admission document. So, on the 9th November we just stop..... What happens to all the shareholders? I'm hoping I've mis-interpreted it

Apologies if its been mentioned somewhere before, but is there a time limit on how long we can stay suspended?

My average is 0.16p so only need a treble to break even.... I'm still not overly confident!!

I understand where you are coming from..... My average is sitting at 0.16p so quite a loss, tempted to top up just to lower my average but don't want to commit more funds as yet....

I think most of mine are all long term, especially SXX and UKOG. Pearson shares could easily go back to the highs of £12 but again that depends on John Fallon's performance over the next couple of years.

I'm fairly new to the game myself.... I have been in sharesaves at work and made a fortune when Walmart bought asda. I left asda in 2008 and joined Pearson. Made a few quid through their sharesave as well. Only started trading about 24 months ago. Win some, lose some. Doubt I will ever be rich. Got hooked on AIM unfortunately, cos I think I struck lucky at the beginning with a few stocks, then lost a fair bit on Afren. Holding shares in SXX, UKOG, XTR as well as here.

Uncrossing Once the uncrossing price has been determined and which buy and sell orders get matched, all of the matched orders put together are reported as a single trade, of type “UT” (for “Uncrossing Trade”) and size equal to the total number of shares changing hands. In particular, note that a 38,000 share “UT” trade does not necessarily mean that any particular person or organisation has bought that many shares, nor that any particular person or organisation has sold that many shares. It may be a combination of lots of smaller trades by people and organisations.

The cost of the learndirect contract was approx £25million per year to deliver approx 2.4 million tests per year. According to the report, Pearson's contract is bigger so if it is for four more years we are looking at over £100million....

it was on the Sky News business page of their website late Tuesday evening.

Sky News reported Learndirect - which was due to begin supplying the theory tests later this year - agreed to a multimillion pound settlement with the Government this month. Rather than going ahead, the firm's contract was cancelled by ministers and handed back to FTSE 100 publishing group Pearson for up to four years without re-tendering. Pearson had been administering the tests prior to the new contract. It's understood the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency made the decision to cancel the contract with Learndirect, after discussions with the Cabinet Office and the Department for Transport. The size of the payout was not disclosed, though it was reported that the contract with Pearson was more expensive than the once signed with Learndirect.

I'm surprised you sold out only a month away from ex-divi date. I'm hoping it won't drop by the 34p they announced..... Any share price above 850p on that day would have given you a better return.

There is nothing in the results that we didn't already know.... Lets hope this is the start of the new beginning!!

After announcing a 34p dividend, updated figures will show a 4.8% return on any outlay ant today's share price.... Plus the company is looking to reduce its workforce by approx 10% in 2016, therefore I think this is the turning point so its the start of the climb back up.

According to the Gov website, the aquisition of the CBT (e-assessments) from LearnDirect has moved to phase 2 because the Competitions & Markets Authority think Pearson will be the only company capable of running a national test such as the Theory Tests. Taxpayers have already paid miliions for the mess the government created in awarding the contract to LearnDirect in the first place, and the Lloyds Group are desperate to sell it off anyway!!

So if you bought in now at approx 825p, and they paid a final divi of 33p, then that would give you a 4% return on your outlay come ex-divi day....