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The Blair's flashing that Champagne socialist cash again.

Wids Another hiccup for the Dow, bond selloff and resumed trade spat with China.

James Your post " BOD in hibernation " Sometimes sudden or ill - timed trading and earnings releases by company CEOs can often send out wrong signals to the market.

Whatever happened to " Hubberts Peak Oil " theory or should we say conspiracy and myth orcheststrated by the western oil majors .

Sensible move. I would expect the company to be fully integrated into the Banking Group at some point in the future.

Italy more credit downgrades on the way for its Sovereign - Debt rating, which will consequently have further knock - effects for its beleaguered financial sector.

Some parts of London are now beginning to resemble Downtown Lagos Nigeria and Mogadishu Somalia.

Hearing a white working class cockney voice on the streets of London is a rarity these days.

London has a very poor track record for constructing large - scale infrastructure projects that are late and over budget, Tottenham Hotspur's new football stadium being the latest.

utrickytrees. A - level exams are far easier to pass today than they were in the 1960s. Even now they are two grades easier to obtain than they were only 20 years ago. It is now not uncommon to find out your local Tesco checkout operator has 10 A-levels to their name. In my day in the 60s leaving grammer school with 4 A-levels was considered a huge achievement.

Maths and Science degree courses are popular with overseas students, they are not popular with our own UK based students. Drop out rates for Uk based students are many times higher than the were in the 1960s.

JMO Your post refering to higher education institutions. i studied at the London School of Economics during the 1960s a real hot - bed for student radicalism, socialist indoctrination and leftist economics, a far cry from today's students who have become moaning snowflakes and are hostile to any form of free speech and self - expression.

Wids. Millennial generation easily offended. Clapping and cheering now banned in universities in favour of " jazz hands"

Globalisation and free - market capitalism are tearing our societies apart. Democracy is bent distorted and subverted and is pushed by powerful multi - national companies who dictate to our politicians their demands to benefit the few at the expense of the many.

Troajan. Also creates a lot of negative effects. outsourcing services, decrease in wages and working conditions, exploitation of workers rights.
Agree Germany have a unique economic business model that cannot be directly replicated by other European economies.

Jacks, Amazon, Poundland , low wages, low tax, no wonder the UK has the worst quality of life in Europe. Welcome to " bargain basement " Britain.

Sunderland built Nissan Qashqai and Juke models are now facing ever increasing stiff competition in the competitive crossover vehicle market, and are now losing market share to the likes of the KIa Sportage. Add in the Brexit factor, and you have a real double whammy in the making for Nissan workers and the local economy of Sunderland.

Their predictions are consistently shown to be wrong. The only certainty is uncertainty. !

The days of walking into a new car sales dealer office with a hundred pounds in your back pocket and driving off their forecourt in a brand new spanking car courtesy of Lloyds black horse car finance are now coming to a close and quite rightly so.

New UK car sales plunged 20% in September. Now looking very much like a extended Christmas break for some automotive and supply chain workers and a permanent break for others.

SUF The UK banking landscape has changed beyond recognition since Eric Daniels was at the helm of the Lloyds bank.
No matter what methodology, ratios and multiples are applied, it is still impossible to value the true worth of a particular company.

Suf Very little value in it for shareholders. The only winners would be the appointed bankers earning fees for handling the break - up of the group.

Fair set of results, however markets can be fiendishly unforgiving these days.

An unprecedented bull run of the index in its history. The DOW will not be able to defy the laws of gravity for much longer.