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we should probably worry if BAE or similar weapons company generously offers to fund voyage to jupiter to collect alien life forms for entirely peaceful & of course scientific purposes.

technicals interesting, thanks to you both for posting, but deutsche outcome will trump?

Standard Life's investment management arm will allow investors to withdraw money from its property fund again in October, having closed redemptions in July in an attempt to prevent a post-Brexit run on the fund. Standard Life Investments said the decision to reopen the fund reflected the fact the "commercial real estate market has stabilised" and it will allow investors to sell out of the fund from 17th October.

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we live in. i never thought i'd see a week in which scientists find water volcanoes on europa and the saudis introduce osbornite austerity. so which will come first, fall of the house of saud, or discovery of jovial lifeforms on a jupiter moon? (both now seem pretty probably, but timing unclear) let's hope the saudi's royal plan for post-millenial diversification wasn't simply to help fund deutsche.

and in hindsight again, i should have given more weight to the cfo buys...

well done. ... i wish i'd done same, hindsight a marvellous thing eh, lol? i think i let myself get rather too discouraged by those significant BoD sales. also, i began to get rather nervous about the margins likely to be available l/t for meds at the older end of the life-cycle, versus margins for more innovative products. but these results really do seem to show clin making a very good go of this end of the pharma cycle. so i ended up making small overall loss, with a few trades here & there, on what was a promising position /decent entry. ah well. atb.

gosh, they've done well. wish i stlll held : (

onthemoney, i post on some stocks where i don't invest, & i do also post on some where i am currently invested. you tend to focus fairly narrowly on stocks where i am not invested, which perhaps just illustrates that you and i tend to favour different stocks. (which i find reassuring.) it does seems very likely that i am more risk averse than you, so perhaps am more willing to keep a % in cash that you. & it is clear that you are much fonder of AIM than i.

when investing, sometimes having the courage of one's convictions means choosing to stay *out* of a share or a sector which seems hot /fashionable, or indeed staying in cash altogether. e.g. rightly or wrongly, woodford has been putting his money, and his investors' money, where his mouth is, by staying well out of the banking sector (and many cyclicals) for some time now. it might work l/t, might not, but he's not simply copying behaviour of other fund managers, nor just replicating or tracking an index.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-wont-pursue-a-split-1474887987 only tangential to clin, but some comment re which kinds of pharma company might be doing well on growth prospects vs which not.

am wondering what the read-across might be rival GSK where woodford et al lobbying for unbundling: http://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-wont-pursue-a-split-1474887987

hi rekoplee. i've not reported any posts on this board recently other than some off-topic ones from brotherhumble. no idea why admin would delete then reinstate your post. atb.

baby still needing them new shoes.

carefully calibrated.

wobbles, will it fall? but tung will inherit the earth, (the meek can s*d right off).

np.

i think he is waiting for a response from you *about* blueshare, rather than on it, since i believe he is banned on that website for his problematic behaviour towards others. if i remember correctly, otm / bh was asking you something about what it means to be given 'five points' on blueshare, although it looks like lse admin have since deleted his post.

"I also like the fact we are looking at the North Sea with a proven well and all the UK regulations as opposed to something such as Turkey which has the potential of huge overnight upturn through rto but also the same huge risks due to the lack of regulations and without being offensive a banana republic volatility." agree with that.

rest of the financials sneeze.