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Looks like VOD is headed to 1 quid. A bear share in a bear market.

The company sold all its best mobile assets in high-value US and Japan for a short-term, narrow-minded buck... and now it's coming back to haunt them... Thought they could make money in India, where the average consumer spends a tiny £2 a month on their phone (compared with a huge £40 in the US)...

He got stitched up by a rival on the Board who went squealing to the press. He'd been extra-curricular for decades and nobody batted an eyelid while the company was on the up.

Management has been super-incompetent here.

The days of the giant highstreet department store ended about 10 years ago! The biggest shop is online, and it is called Amazon or Alibaba.

Debenhams need to cut their average store-size by at least -50%, double their revenue-per-square-foot, and smarten up their website and offer sameday delivery. Their stores are way too big (and expensive), and the website is pretty much anonymous.

Huge 48% dividend yield to be paid on Nov 9, 2018.

As predicted, this is inching closer and closer, day by day, to the 10-15p range. Sentiment is very bearish on SXX, and the overall stockmarket slump is dragging it down even harder. If / when there is a global recession in 2019 / 2020, SXX will find it harder to raise funds and sell potash, which will hit the shares bad.

Very bearish here now. Fallen very far, very fast. Charts are suggesting 50p is possible.

Along with Barclays and WPP, this will probably be sold off on the cheap to the Americans in the next year or two. Money to be made if you can catch right before takeover time.

Where did all the pump-and-dump crew go! Thought this was going to be a trillion-dollar company within a week under Sorrell...

Seems a fair bet that Barclays will get broken up, the juicy investment bank will be sold off to the Americans on the cheap, and the UK highstreet stuff will be left to drift and quietly decay.

Another big British company going to the wall. The Americans will pick this up on the cheap in the next year or two, strip out the best bits, and take most of the work to New York. Sorrell must be wetting himself.

Yes, consumers and businesses will buy fewer windows if the UK gets a Brecession, fewer newbuilds are erected due to a GDP slump, or building regs become less strict during the post-EU era.

They fell due to a copycat rival stealing their business. But that issue has been settled and SFE is on a strong rebound from 35-40p. Whether it will be sustained in the face of Brexit and possible recession remains to be seen.

Another nonsense RNS from CGNR. Using new words ("rock chip") to try and pump the shares again. Good to see the market not falling for it.

Motors.co.uk sold off on the cheap to eBay today. Bad news for Auto Trader, hence the shares down almost -10%. Not sure why British companies have to keep giving away the family silver to the Americans all the time.

Looks like owner Johnson was sitting on a pile of 40 directorships before this one went bellyup...

And GT was "auditing" a hefty chunk of those 40 companies...

No wonder he and GT never bothered checking the books.

Lol.

Orangeite...

The prof has found a new word to pump the shares before a placing ;-)

PSN has dipped recently because the weak FTSE has dragged it down, the end of Help To Buy is in sight, houseprice growth is stagnant, and mortgage rates for consumers are broadly trending back up.

The sunset of HTB is the biggie. That scheme basically hands PSN loads of free money. If / when it ends (circa 2020), it will be hard to replace. Could prove a real longterm drag on the shareprice.

As expected, gold coming nicely back into fashion, as the world barrels toward another (cyclical) recession.

Lol.

The "autoreply not working" excuse is the modern equivalent of the old "dog ate my homework" ;-)

Always beware of AIM execs that send chummy emails to PIs. It usually means they are not working hard elsewhere.

Would be very surprised if someone else did not know what was going on here. Doubt the FD was the only one who knew what was going on.