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..like Rockdoc before recent history of their volcanoes have been 'uncharacteristically quiet'. It does'nt bother the tweetybirds, maybe a return to the piston engine and Zeppellins etc. is on the cards. Air travel only for the well moneyed. For another time in history the geographical position on the globe of the UK is proving to be a serious disadvantage... Still all ''investment'' in airline stocks is a victory of looney levels of faith over experience! GLA.

Blessing those ''influential investors'' cotton socks there Poppydog. Onwards and upwards. I recommend Sam Cam buys FCAM for the wee ains ''Childrens stakeholder''. Small Tip: A poppydog is'nt just for Christmas, with careful culinary management it can feed a family of four well into the new year (says the Indonesian Government ministry of food)

...as IC did predict. Pls send the pretty masseuse up to my room, now I've had my hot shower whilst I empty the frigobar of Glenmorangie and I'll have recovered even more...Ah...its hard being a man (slurp)...

Pharmaceutical company ProStrakan reported a 41% increase in revenues to £79m and a reduced loss in 2009. The pre-tax loss fell from £25.2m to £15m. Net debt was £17.5m at the end of 2009. There are two US approvals pending in the first half of 2010. They are pain relief treatments for cancer patients (Abstral) and chronic anal fissures (Rectogesic)

...like watching paint dry...and getting it rained on...

Sperm contains zinc...that causes many problems in the wrong place (at the right time!) but no problem Harriet Harperson will get all that under control so sleep easy...

Lets all do well...

Whoops no its not! Unchanged at 6p notified as of today. My site H-L uk still suggests 15th April the circa ex div date (check again nearer the date!). Apparently FCAM is due to get its Mar 2009 sector rally from now, which is nice! I had a paltry holding acquired from Friends Prov. breakup but have reinforced it recently. Seems like good timing for a change.

Believe it is discontinued. The ex div date was around 15th April so you may like to check again nearer the date.

Reason for drop is UK GBP reversed its trend temporarily (going up). UK pharma are good USD etc. earners and benefit from UK GBP drop. GSK/AZN drop similar today despite broker upgades. I expect it will resume as all parties want/need cheaper GBP. Enjoy the results (17th is it?).

There are extensive openings for you in the religious instruction industry Sir as Rabbi, Imam, Priest or Pastor where you may more efectively use your navel gazing skills...and improve the world. Here Mammon rules...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7266837/Barclays-and-Bank-of-America-see-looming-oil-crunch.html

Up to you but I would'nt have said so, the oil price going north for a wide variety of reasons not least US growth, plus there's the 'background' activity, Dragon could be the most desirable proven oil n gas play in the world, (and the gas is'nt priced in yet) allowing that Saudis reserves are off the board really. For me, unless and until a particularly good play comes along the cash stays in here. North of 5.50 I'll think again - depending on whether its a speculative burst or not, (they occur reasonably often here) I would intend to stay put. You never know if the 'balloon goes up' re Iran etc. Lifes full of surprises - unpleasant ones mostly on the world stage and that usually means oil goes up, after all we're addicted to the stuff (Me? I'm a pushbiker but my supermarkets lorries certainly need it). Its also a commodity play in case the pound sinks - which with loser Gordon pushing the buttons may well happen. Any better places to be?

I sympathise, and marvel at your patience. I know nothing about this company and have no shares. There is a good article in IC about pharma Cos taken to market years too early. I got suckered into Alizyme (AZM) a similar AIM pharma, you won't find it, its in adminstration. I hope I am cured of backing the hype these guys come out with. They all hope to get bought by GSK or similar but very few are called. Please don't get left as the lonely last saddoe - thats all I want to say.

Sure mate, DGO is my comfort blanket, I never wander too far away from them.

No mate that was ENOC, No.1 shareholder in DGO (Emirates oil outfit) already and yes they tried to steal it for buttons. I think Baillie Gifford were one of those who helped put the Khybosh on it, so we tinies should salute them. They have a big holding in DGO in their Baillie Gifford Emerging Markets Growth fund, it sounds they are upping their holding which as I say is very positive.

I know them only as fund managers but the whatfors I cannot help with, maybe for a fund portfolio? It sounds good though cheers.

You're as safe with DGO as in any oil producer with good upside potential. However, the prospects for the world economy especially China moves the futures prices around somewhat. Oil is a commodity like anything else. However, it exerts a control over the world like nothing else in that when its cheap the world economy moves apace. Sadly, it is the capital markets, debt. etc. where the bottle neck is right now not the oil price. We (UK citizens) can help by removing other risks i.e. the next idiot Gordon Brown move, by removing him ASAP. He's got an 'instructor' recently, zapping his mitts with a electric cattle prod. when he wants to 'see what that button does' but his ten years as chancellor set up the conditions for our current predicament (Not just him but for we in the UK, mostly him). Still, the recession he helped induce is more effective at reducing atmospheric carbon than all the Green party policies plus all the worlds wind generators added together. Maybe he's a Green party fifth columnist! Tough on carbon, tough on the causes of carbon...

Gordon Gekko versus John Bull. Gekko wins by beating John over the head with that brick of a mobile phone he had in the '80s movie... Yet another foodstuff I now have to make at home if I want to get quality and provenance. Sadly I cannot grow the cocoa!

Sorry mate I leave squid to sperm whales and funny foreigners. I heard on a wildlife prog. from the Falklands that Rockhopper penguins were going short of fish at tha moment. Perhaps its global warming or ElNino or whatever. I reckon the falklands will be ripe for a bloody big tomato greenhouse especially if theres almost free gas on tap in the near future. A huge reason for CHP plants of any description.