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to see a bit more life here. can't say i'd really expected that sequence, trump walks it then prudential blips up. funny old world we live in.

yup, and all this before we get the usual xmas share tipster columns / investment advice for the new year, in the context of ongoing very low interest rates & returns on bonds/deposits. atb.

lol, should have left it as a large net increase am.

& sold some this morning, with small net increase to my current holding. would like to buy more, but expect further dips fairly likely in these times.

time for cappuchino, that's been one of my busiest trading sessions for 30 yrs. gla.

phew, that worked out ok (so far, lol). just so long as donald keeps his fat finger off that big red button, eh.

lol, yup. but then, freud would have known that all AIM is just a manifestation of the id. (? what was your lenigas remark about, btw? .. so far as i'm aware, i don't think that i am following any dave lenigas shares atm, but i know that big dave does get about a bit!)

[analogy: just suppose ant1986 & i fell in love, ah! - to the extent that he agreed to me doing a reverse takeover on him, (providing i promised to be gentle). but in the meantime, ant's a bit skint, so i agree to lend him some money, just for a few months. he then finds out something horribly unsavoury about my personal past, that makes his flesh crawl when he even begins to think about merging our assets. so he calls off our nuptials. - that's fair enough, *but* ant1986 would *still owe me the money* that i had lent him.

[and still don't understand why you have brought david lenigas into it .. what has he got to do with it?]

i don't follow your logic. ... bigsofa have already exited from the proposed RTO, apparently on the basis that they now know or now suspect things about NEW's finances & background they didn't know before. but i don't see how you think that is relevant to bigsofa being obliged to pay back a short term loan that NEW made to them? NEW lent them money, so if NEW ask for it back, then bigsofa should pay it back .... if bigsofa cannot pay it back in a timely way, then that would make me wonder what on earth the BOD of NEW were up to lending them that money in the first place? NEW BoD should not have lent short term money to people who could not pay back.

i'm not suggesting anyone should sue NEW BoD for not making a profit. -- but if a company i was invested in lent a sizeable sum of money to someone on what was *meant* to be a short-term basis, but (a) did so knowing that the person they were lending the money to was very unlikely to be able to repay that money on the due date, or (b) lent the money without even checking if the person they were lending it to could pay it back on time, then i might reasonably think that company was negligent.

"probably why you're so interested in David Lenigas shares." what are you talking about?

if it really is that obvious that bigsofa can't repay the 'short-term' loan on time, then doesn't that tend to suggest that the BoD of NEW were somewhat cavalier with shareholders' money in lending them the money in the first place? - either the NEW BoD failed to do sufficient due diligence to understand how cash-strapped bigsofa were in the first place, or else the NEW BoD did know that, but nonetheless gave them a big chunk of shareholder's cash. ... a potential basis for claim again BoD?

convinced my timing is on the button, short-term, but i have taken another little piece of these for a one year view. - unless USA election leads to civil war, i can't honestly see that it will make a massive difference to GSK's long term prospects across its global business. (i hope!) presumably a medium term risk could be some kind of dollar reversal prompted by months of political / legal deadlock in US? but then again, we've seen 'em cope with before when gore was having a go, & even with obama supposedly in power, most of time US runs OK on a deadlock anyway.

'Electrifc cars' would be trifc.

fj, thankyou, interesting.

for spreadbetters (like myself) of course it works somewhat more immediately, in that there is a cash adjustment to the balance in my trading account on the same day that a share goes ex-dividend, so no waiting about until payment date.

well, it's hardly an explanation about why he'd want to spread doom and gloom across message boards tho'? posts on these message boards can, under some circumstances, have an effect on the sp of a few illiquid AIM stocks whose valuations are dependent on sentiment & expectations re future prospects. but posts on message boards for major stocks will have no meaningful effect at all on trading. so presumably, there is some other motivation for choosing to post in that way ... perhaps, like most of us on lse, just posting for fun & interest?

lift buttons. (life buttons perhaps a more cutting edge biz aimed at young persons?)

best guess on hilary vs trump? and which would really be better for stock markets? (my own view, i don't think it will matter much which matters in *medium term*, since US system does actually have an impressive inbuilt system of check & balances.) issue remains about the seismic l/t adjustment of chinese economy, very hard to manage (and in fact, part of the problem is, they still think it *can* be managed) & usa voters have no influence at all over that. [and a more puzzling / uncertain issue remains, what will world that is delinked from oil prices in, say, 15-20 years, look like?] but hard to say how it affects a business making life buttons, lol. my interest here approx half previous, having chicked out a little earlier. may buy back, but atm am being a bit passive until the world settles a bit post us election (assuming it does settle, & no US civil war)