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Aspers,

Not sure who used to the forward cruise booking analysis and pricing but I have done a quick look forwards.

From late April to end September the prices for even the standard rooms seem much higher than last year as will as the booking rate.

So expecting some very good numbers on Thursday followed by broker upgrades especially from Singer.

So 450p seems like a very low target to me. IMHO

From Saga Magazine

“As this magazine goes to press, we will be presenting our annual business update to the City. It’s a fantastic opportunity to reflect on the progress we have been making. Our partnership strategy – where we find quality partners to help bring unique products to Saga customers – is now in full swing. We have already launched our insurance partnership with Ageas, and we recently went live with our new easy access savings account in partnership with NatWest....”

I guess this means the trading statment will be good ...

Corry,

Cheers for that had a look but it looks like Funding circle has already had a recent surge.

So trading this is beyond my talents. I am really bad at short term trading tbh

Offler,

The pattern is negotiate hard and get a better deal for US taxpayer.

Ukraine security for mineral rights

Greenland for missile bases paid for resources from mines

Venezeula for oil

NATO get European countries to pay fair share

Gaza for real estate

Better trade deals for US - get higher tariffs than what the other countries set

And do it in the quickest time possible using his aggressive negotiating technique

....

Did you here Zelensky's speech on Europe. Talking rubbish and symbolic meaningless rubbish does not matter!!!!

Graviton,

Well Trump's speech did the trick and he has the deal he wanted on Greenland.

He always seems to deliver and achieve his goals in incredible time. Wish he was our leader

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Alnwick,

Look forward to going through your points one by one when we meet up ;-)

Aspers,

Nice. It was quite an impressive tree shake this morning well done

Offler,

Please see my post below explaining the results of the market turmoil. It created great results for the US economy.

Regarding profiteering the only politician that I know that has been proven to benefit from political connections in the market in the US is Nancy Pelosi.

There is even a following of people who copy her trades as she consistently beats every large hedge fund manager by a large margin.

But hey I do understand the attraction of just choosing to believe whatever narrative suits. Personally I am a numbers guy which is why I have been in Saga for so long

Interesting. I dont think that Trump is particularly intelligent, just that he is doing common sense things in the US.

And it has been proven with the results

So I guess I just think other politicians are incredibly stupid and arrogant.

Dont really care what he is or what people choose to believe he is? The question should be is he changing things for the better in the US ?

Anyway that was a brilliant tree shake by the market makers. Hope everyone held on tight to their shares I know I did ;-)

Graviton,

I do not believe djt has dementia. Trump throws a curve ball and everyone reacts and then he gets a better deal than if had negotiated in a more "civilised" manner. It is about results.

I will give you an example....

lets go back in time ......

Donald trump does liberation day where he sets insaney high tariffs.

Everyone screams and runs around like headless chickens. Trump is calm as a cucumber.

Everyone negotiates to get out of the high tariffs.

All the liberal leftie experts scream "the US consumer will ultimately pay for the tariffs", "the US will go into recession", "inflation will sky rocket"

"He is mad" " He has demetia" etc etc etc

Fast forward to the present ....

US inflation 2.7% (core infaltion 2.6%) lowest since 2021 ..... leftie experts were very wrong, US consumers did not pay for tariffs ...

US growth 4.3% (Q4 2025 expected to be 5.3%) ..... leftie experts were very wrong, US did not go into recession complete opposite highest numbers for a long time ....

exports surged 8.8% in 2025 while imports fell 4.7% US trade deficit reaching a 17 year low of 29.4 billion dollars

US tariffs generate $287 billion dollars in 2025 up 192% year on year. Donald was right foreign companies not US citizens paying US tax

Whatever he is doing with Greenland he is thinking a few steps ahead lets see the outcome ;-)

unlike*****,

i do agree if the green's get in it will be a disaster. the issue as you have put it the insane welfare state etc which means whichever party comes in they will need to sort the debt problem at some point and that will be a very bitter pill to swallow.

Come on, I am fishing and I left some tasty bait.

Is no one going to bite?

Aspers,

Well done on your profit. I am however with Alnwick on this and see Saga heading much higher.

Hopefully last few days are just a tree shake.

I would not be worried about what Trump does. He has created great numbers for the US and that is his focus ultimately and is very pro business.

From most people's point of view they should think "there is method in the madness". However he is just very good at manipulating people and countries into meeting his goals ...

I would be worried about Labour however as they are driving this country into the ground and very anti business and anti wealth. Not good when Saga is dependant on wealthy individuals.

Buglet,

Well done on your profit. Personally I am diamond handing Saga until much higher. It is still so undervalued ....

However if you are looking at something different then I would suggest Wizz Air as that is going to do very well in next year as well as Yellow cake.

Https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-14/wizz-ceo-revises-outlook-on-airbus-deliveries-fewer-groundings?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2ODQyMzU5NywiZXhwIjoxNzY5MDI4Mzk3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOFY0VkFLSzNOWUEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOUZGMTBCMzI4RkM0ODJDODEwOTc3OUMzOEYzQTBDMCJ9.CYOoxJ34OkRr5ZzPbw-ohV40kMY_cZvOYXjGE_JLQf8

Booom ... growth back on track ...

Https://newsroom.saga.co.uk/news/saga-money-launches-competitive-easy-access-savings-account-in-partnership-with-natwest-boxed

Not sure if this is particularly significant tbh

Be careful that is just not true.

A lot of these "shareholders" are institutions that provide clients with nominee accounts from which to hold Saga shares e.g Hargreaves Langsdown

Singer Capital has increased the TP to 515p - research tree has the full report

Corry, Alamj,

That is right funds need to balance by the 3rd Friday after Saga enters the ftse250

Corry,

Thank you for that. From my understanding that would give the index funds 3 fridays from Monday to balance their funds with Saga stock .