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the new everton stadium has got serious "bottleneck" problems at the nearby bascule bridge, causing massive traffic jams when fans exit after the game. someone at liverpool council and everton club didn't do their footfall-flow calculations properly.

hope you're all watching the ****nal-real madrid game. saka playing a blinder. rm look more likely to score.

Nope.

See previous posts. Brexit is 9 years into negotiations, and still not complete. The Paris Climate Accords took 25 years to complete. International deals are measured in decades. Trump has only months. That is why he has to railroad thru these tariff deals. The future of Western civilisation is riding on it.

Think the Musk tariff stuff is just theatre for China. Make it look like Musk is on China's side, not just the US. Musk knows, if he says anything even remotely anti-China, the CCP will shutdown his Tesla factories, subsidies or component supply chain in a nanosecond.

Not sure how many times it has to be said... The US has $36T of debt and a $2T tax deficit and a $1T trade deficit. That cannot carry on. The US is hurtling toward bankruptcy. The US must reverse course. Trump has just a 1-year window to turn the ship around. The midterms election cycle begins after this Xmas! Trump is cutting debt and rebalancing trade. It's absolutely the right action to take 👍

And, don't forget, the UK is in the exact same mess -- only worse. Too much debt, too much tax, too big a trade gap. The US has the *courage* to tackle their big problems. We don't.

The problem QUBE has is that you have to download a QUBE smartphone app to get their Q-ID code to work. That makes it a proprietary (closed) system, and it's thus going to be very hard to scale up on a national or global basis. Downloading an extra app is always a pain. Especially, (for example).when open QR codes "just work" straight out of the box and don't need an extra app-download step. A wild guess says this stock will do the classic "UK tech" thing -- drift down for a few years to become a penny stock, and then get sold off to the Americans on the cheap.

Good volumes today. But keep in mind, this stock has plunged -65% in the past 8 months. It goes down more often than it goes up! What's more, the Samson research product doesn't appear to do much more than what Grok does for free. Lucy is in the cold-calling demo phase, but doesn't have any revenue. And the underlying DeepSeek R1 software is Chinese-owned with strong links to the CCP communist party. Not sure I'd want to integrate that into my sensitive UK / US / India HR database or high-value corporate research and intelligence pool. There's also an ongoing risk that DeepSeek / High-Flyer in the future gets capped, restricted or banned by Trump or others in the West (like Huawei did). Finally, the London stockmarket is not known for its love or understanding of tech stocks, and frequently undervalues them by a huge margin (e.g. ARM). In short, there's a lot of risk here, with little or no revenue so far, and the current £13m marcap looks hard to justify at this point.

Ignore the marcap. This company is on the brink of going bust!

Yrs, struggling to see the hype here. Samson doesn't appear to do much more than (say) a free Perplexity or Grok search. Lucy is being demoed, but anyone can cold-call a few firms and do a demo -- doesn't necessarily translate to meaningful revenues. As for using DeepSeek R1 -- there's no way I'd want to risk Chinese software (and possible links to the China Communist Party (CCP)) crawling thru my sensitive UK or US or India HR corporate database!

Lol.

Re-shipping to swerve tariffs is one of the biggest industries in the entire world. Hong Kong, Istanbul, Miami, dozens of major ports worldwide do it. Miami is swarming with millionaires who re-ship Asia-built smartphones to Central and South America at (much) lower tariff rates. Belfast needs to jump on it. Re-ship to the US for a fee, and skim a bit off the saved EU tariff.

Read and learn, son 😉

Northern Ireland goods entering the US will face just a +10% tariff.

Goods from the Republic of Ireland, and EU, will be hit with a +20% tariff, as part of measures Trump has imposed on the EU.

Belfast and NI should be all over this. They can make billions overnight, by re-shipping cars, pharma, spirits, etc. from Eire or mainland EU to the US. Belfast can get rich beyond its wildest dreams.

Good call on Nvidia 👍

Another +11% profit in 6hrs, to add to the +9% on the S&P earlier in the day 👌

Nope.

Nothing wrong with China being in the WTO. They just never play / played fair by the WTO rules. Their tariffs were long 2-3 times higher (or more) than the US, yuan currency manipulation is rife, IP loss thru coerced partnerships, the list goes on and on. For example, China manipulated its currency just last week!

The dollar is the world's reserve currency because of its mindblowing liquidity. US is 25-30% of the entire planet's GDP. Simples.

Nothing wrong with outsourcing to cheaper or better or unique-resource countries. But you gotta let your currency free-float and adjust down or up to the subsequent trade imbalance, which in turn rebalances longterm trade. China does not free-float. China keeps trade (deliberately) unbalanced. Year after year after year.

The average American is 50-100% richer than the average Brit. It's the UK who needs to look at its economic policies. We are much poorer. The stats are clear.

The US is just 20-40% of NATO population, but 60-80% of NATO spending. By one estimate, the EU and UK have leached $4T in free defence from the US in the past 25-50 years. It is the EU not paying its way. Not the US. The stats are clear.

In the past 110 years, the US has (literally) saved the UK and Europe from Germany, Italy, the Nazis, the Fascists, Japan, China, USSR, Marxism, communism, extremist Islamic terrorism, and is currently trying to stop communist dictatorship China and nuclear annihilation Iran. No other country on the planet has shed so much blood and treasure to protect Western democracy and freedom. None.

It is quite astonishing (and terrifying) how few people out there understand even basic history, geopolitics, or economics!

Amid all the hoo-ha, really, the no.1 tariff target is China. Everything else is just collateral damage. The US tried to tariff China into submission in 2019, and it partly worked (closed the % gap). The US is now obviously trying to fully close the tariff and non-tariff gap in 2025.

China has been mugging off the West for the past 40 years or so. For example, a Chinese EV car firm can just roll up at Felixstowe on Mon and start selling cars on Tues. But a UK car firm cannot do that -- it must build a factory on the mainland and give 50% of the whole firm to a Chinese "partner", at great expense and huge bureaucracy and loss of IP. So, for all our sakes, Trump must win here. China is not playing fair. It has to stop.

Buy the dip... let it rip.

Wow. That is one of the fastest reversals in the market the world has ever seen. The S&P500 just ripped +5% in a matter of minutes. Quite astonishing to watch.

If you'd bought the S&P 500 on my "oversold" tip this morning, you'd have made a staggering +9% profit in 7 hours 🥳

As predicted, HFEL plunging back under the 200p level! Looks ready to test its all-time low of 170-180p. This share is a slow-motion car crash.

Yup, Bloomer "gets" it. It's not just the over-tariffing, it's also the currency manipulation, and sneaky non-tariff barriers. Three legs of the unfair-trade stool. China artificially bends its currency to favour exports -- the free US dollar is competing with the non-free yuan. Brazil charges huge import tariffs at the national level when they enter port, then charges yet more import tariffs when they're shipped from the port at a regional level, effectively doubling the tariff rate by stealth. The US wants an end to such shenanigans, and rightly so.

Philippines is now saying they will cut their US tariffs. Another country throws in the towel. The list is getting longer by the hour.

Lol. Guessing maths is not a strongpoint... A weighting of 3.0% vs. 2.2% on tariffs is a massive +36% higher ratio by the EU. The article (inadvertently) trips itself up. Trump has made another good call there 😉

The EU is now saying in the past hour they will cut their tariffs to 0% (zero)! The EU and VDL have blinked first. A huge win for Trump. Step by step, you can see Trump's plan coming together. More and more countries are capitulating, and acknowledging they over-tariff the US.

And -- it's worth noting -- dozens of countries also over-tariff the UK. The UK runs a gigantic trade gap with the EU and China, among others. What's happened to the US is also happening exactly to the UK -- ballooning debt and unbalanced mega trade gap. The US is solving its problem. The UK is burying its head in the sand. Very naive.

Interesting to see that MSN article -- it estimates EU weighted tariffs are a staggering +36% higher than US weighted tariffs. That matches almost exactly the +39% higher ratio that Trump showed on his ticker board. It looks, once again, like Trump is right 👍

Hope everyone bought the dip, and let it rip. If you'd bought the S&P 500, FTSE 100 and LLOY by ISA at the time of my 8am "oversold" post this morning, you'd now be sitting at 12pm midday on an impressive net profit of +2%, +3%, and +6%. The equivalent of the entire annual LLOY divvy -- in half a day 👍