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(PS i thought they had discontinued the flights to gothenburg from marshalls b/c lack of demand?)

what is a quarternary hospital?

i wonder if soriot's apparent departure is being interpreted as adverse early warning on the mystic trial outcomes?

on the move?

i don't think it is an upgrade, is it? 300p been their target for a while.

you got the booze & crisps in ready for that 100p party yet?

US holiday next week may make for some thin trading early on.

i didn't mean so much re how WPCT books those values, more how the market as a whole may perceive biotechs.

lol, yes, perhaps. but added today.

corner beginning to turn on biotech valuations?

oops, *tough* patch, not 'touch'.

o/t for vodafone, apols. gerry, have you seen UTW? another ouch for our woody. (but i have gone long on lloyds, which is one of woodford's buys recently. i still rate the guy, but in a touch patch.)

woody's stock-picking has seemed pretty p***-poor for a while. his stance presumably is that he's into long-term investments, lol.

gerry can speak for himself, of course, but i don't think he was trying to make a very specific point about BP as such; simply that even big FTSE companies can sometimes have dreadful, large, sudden share price falls -- so that it is a very risky strategy for someone to put all their money into any one single share.

well, the +15% premium to NAV that it enjoyed in its early days post listing was a good reason.

i presume gerry is meaning that even with some very big company like BP, it is still possible that some very large, unanticipated event can make the share price fall through the floor .... as BP's share price did when that massive oil spill happened in gulf of mexico following the blow-out. so it's an example of why it is risky to have 100% of one's portfolio in ANY one company, even if it is a huge, global multinational one. volkswagen's disaster with the emissions scandal was another example (and look what happened to poor old RBS!) ... just suppose, for the sake of argument, that next week there was a news headline that german authorities had uncovered what appears to systematic financial misreporting by vodafone's operations in that country over several years; sp would TANK. ... i'm not suggesting that has happened! - but it's within the realms of possibility to consider when planning risk distribution.

"What would be the point of aramco floating shares if it was an obvious busted flush?." ... because it would be better to get something rather than nothing? if the saudis had lots of confidence on the *long* term future of oil, no way would they be selling a single share in aramco. they know the writing is on the wall. (prob still v long way off yet, but closer it gets, harder it will be for saudis to exit).

528, below your range?

ascending wedge?

... and the price holds above £3, nice.