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However... back then BT did not own EE

A better trade deal with India would also make a lot of sense in terms of Pharma... UK has Meds shortages, an improved India trade deal would significantly help with plugging those.

From recollection many of the one share trades which can appear from time to time are just down to traders testing buying opportunities & market prices. I read up on this a while back but I forget all the detail!

With Bharti having purchased a sizable stake & with plans for more purchases (subject to UK Gov approval) up to 24.5%... what's the damage the those with open short positions?

Getting your wish it seems basher... cracking a bottle open? What's your tipple?

Lots of noise will be said about tax my dear bertram but... nothing is certain except for death and taxes. So best get over it and move on because at the end of the day majority of taxes are only paid when booking profits anyhow... no gains in your capital equals no capital gains taxes to pay!

Bertram - lovely theory an all but it's kinda obvious that if Labour are truly serious about economic growth then they'll be best off investing & supporting more FTTP & 5G, and not standing still allowing the investment into data infrastructure to begin to stall and fall.

I'm thinking they could make some big announcements in the upcoming budget on targeting treasury money for a proper pro growth longer term strategy... we know they're building 1.5million plus houses and surely data infrastructure has to be within their strategy?... Jansen said BT had been talking to Labour already, when they had the results presentations as Alison was taking over.

Good point AbjectPerformer on the tax benefits + trading of private stocks

OTC off book trading just allows the buyers/sellers more flexibility on price setting, it's why they can trade for a fair bit either over or under the market prices... Presumably it's used to reduce losses for the parties in question e.g. one party might have losses on stock for company 'AirGuitar PLC' and another might have losses on Company 'Platinum Products PLC'... by agreeing to trade with both crossing at more favourable rates it's possible for both parties to taper down their respective losses, when compared to if they had to trade them for the going market rates...

Just my presumption/hypothesis, I'm not claiming I am correct. Please suggest another theory if you've one 👍

Avocet- mid afternoon of the 6th I said I was seeing sell signals... yes, EZJ rose by tuppence haypenny that afternoon but it dropped the next day by a number of pennies... the rally did not arrive until very late yesterday and into this mornings trading session spured by new US data and another pullback is still likely over the weeks ahead imo as EU inflation is back and there's lots of UK weaknesses.

TerryM1 citing GB News - LOL - absolute trash TV that, watched by Truss/Farage supporting persons who long for a return of the British Empire. That channel is an utter joke! Spouts bilge and nonsense.

Avocet123 - Lies, housing is in deep crisis and it'll show in the data over these next 6 months ahead.

Thank you fleccy - excellent news and I still have more in the tank to commence some more buying too ;-)

Has anyone calculated the cost of the Divi to those with open short positions?

Basher.... Do you reckon Elon has plans to take over the republican party following Trumps epic defeat?

AbjectPerformer... I disagree with fleccy on many things. e.g. I've seen he's fairly right wing, whereas I'm centerist. He's bought into Vodafone + Lloyds, whereas Voda are rubbish and although Lloyds okay ish I'd not invest into them.

One thing we both agree on though... BT is going to be doing very nicely ahead. Just gutted I've only relatively recently begun with accumulating my BT holdings but he no doubt has an acre or three of BT stock in his palms.

AbjectPerformer... in normal market times I'd be inclined to agree with you.

However, We're about the witness Labour kicking off the building for 1.5million+ new homes (presumably with FTTP + 5G connectivity included). Plus the FTTP +5G capex rollouts have added much new capacity, though uptake of services sales lags behind it (many will not immediately go out and buy into the new services offered, it's only over time that the pace of consumers purchasing add on services picks up - mentioned in BT's results).

So as the capex cost reductions accumulate, so too will the pickup in sales of profitable new services. BT has good speeds and reliability on its side, many will pay a small premium for a quality service. BT is decent value for money imo.

Wednesday - The only aim I had was finding a home to invest my cash for a decent return, as I don't wish to buy low return bonds (inflation has much diminished the ROI). I'll come back in a few months time, to see if CPI heads where I believe it will, or not.

Pablo & AH will sell out before the really big drop which will inevitably land down the line(3-18 months)... and you'll all sadly be left holding many worthless shares in a completely hollow business on the verge of declaring bankruptcy.

Daltry - great question... I came here a few months ago because I thought I'd spotted a potentially decent investment opportunity. I poured through the CPI financials and then asked challenging questions on here. What I expected to read were some quality replies, with evidence of sound explanations on the financials, of a solid forward plan and perhaps insights not available easily from elsewhere...

What I received as replies though was so starkly different; a barrage of abusive comments, wild conspiracy theories mouthed off directed at me, and worse so... no evidence whatsoever of either sound financials, or a solid forward plan. Comments were extremely emotionally charged, abusive really, and not logically structured. I was alarmed.

After analysing the data some more and doing my best to understand all available views I came to conclusions and from those I made a prediction; that there would be a big sell off on the arrival of the results... Many on here scoffed at me, advocated blocking me via filters and insulted me repeatedly. So I sat patiently waiting on the results. They landed and guess what? - Unsurprisingly there was a massive 12%+ sell off of CPI!

Then came yet more abuse, comments ramping of pipe dream £1 valuations for CPI - I called these out. Look, I get that being heavily invested no doubt makes my comments a hard read but I've shared evidence and I've invited challenge.

Anyway... I've continued giving CPI a wide berth, instead I put a fair bit of my cash into BT (on which I just collected a 5.69p divi). I still watch CPI out of curiosity, to see where it heads and if my analysis was correct or not.