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Three of the many simple and basic important rules for investors to remember when catching falling knives. a. Ask yourself why the shares have fallen. b. Avoid at all costs investing in over- indebted companies c. Be clear on why you're investing in the stock.

Trump is a useful political tool to have for the Washington elite and big business, who only care about enriching themselves rather than serving the American taxpayer.

They need a more credible long-term substainable CAPEX plan that will help alleviate the many regulatory pressures that are bearing down on the company operating profits and free cash flows. The dividend also needs to be cut (rebased ) more than the company has so far hinted on.

Lot of froth at the moment surrounding the share price, probably nearing top end of its current short term trading range. Investors will still need to factor in the new growing uncertainty over the future direction of the UK Economy, and continued forward downward pressure on the bank net interest operating margins. Like the previous Lloyds re- privatisation large Institutions will not give HMG a free hand in helping to sell down its huge 73% remaining stake in the bank and may well turn out to be challenging and a real hard sell for them to accomplish.

Trumps scrapping of Irans nuclear arms deal, and imposing further economic sanctions on the regime conveniently plays directly into the hands of Isreal, Saudi Arabia, and the American oil frackers. Excellent morning for traders and investors holding oil sector shares.

RBS still grappling with the same old problem as previous reporting . Net interest margins fell again by two basis points to 2.04 %. The bank must improve this part of their their asset management, if they wish to remain highly competitive and profitable in future years.

Takeover speculation at Firstgroup has given the Stagecoach share price a real fillip recently. I believe the share is now trading at the top end of its current trading share price level.

martin1 i was totally unware myself of the takeover bid when i posted on the Firstgroup board this afternoon. Firstgroup management were correct to reject the takeover approach by Apollo Global which fundamentally undervalues the company by a wide mark. The rules state they have till the 9th May to table a revised offer or walk away for at least 6months. ATB

Maybe a future buyout by the management and the company turned into a private entity. However knowing Brian Souters canny business acuem, he will try and pick the company up as cheaply as possible, if that his is future intentions for the company.

The shares are nicely motoring along back to the �108p - �115p share price trading range. Positive earnings data and better than expected progrees in the debt reduction program could lead to a re-rating of the shares. ATB

The shares have been grossly oversold recently, hopefully we will now see a upward retracement movement of the share price back to the �108p - �115p range.

The halcyon days of the Bob Diamond era when Barclays Investment Bank was number three in the world are now truly well and over. I would now expect Barclays to further scale back its investment arm banking operations with a view to disposing of the business at a future date, and to focus more on its high street operations.

Despite hiring thousands of a additional specialist compliance employees from a across the globe over the last few years, regulatory and litigation costs continue to bear down on the bank balance sheet. HSBC urgently needs to make an extra concerted effort to resolve these issues.

Good for future payouts to Barclays Investment Bank bonus pool. Maybe not so good for their long suffering share holders very much a case of jam tomorrow with this share.

RBS are in dire need of updating their own digital banking operations and innovative technolgies,10,000 RBS business customers already use this companies accounting software. Could turn out to be a shrewd acquisition by the Bank.

With the collapse of the East Coast Main line franchise and lost income from the SWT franchise the shares now look fair value. However it is now hard to see where future forward earnings growth projections are going to come from within their exsisting remaining operations, that will have to work extra hard to make up the shortfall of the lost income without putting the dividend at risk of being cut .

I like this share and have recently added it to my trading portfolio. However investors need to tread a very fine line between oil prices, future operational costs, geological risk and company debt levels.

Lets all wait for the full year results to be published before we condemn the present management team, if institutional investors and fund managers want to play silly buggers with the share price " so be it". The company will simply buy its own shares back for cancellation at a future date.

Most UK transport sector shares are currently out of favour with investors at the moment, and all are experiencing challenging economic market conditions in the UK bus market at the moment. Despite operating in a tough trading environment First Bus continues to deliver operating margin progress and like-for-like passenger growth and will continue implement further cost efficiency actions and invest heavily in the new bus fleet and digital technology.

Investors will have to stay patience for a little longer. Despite the recent weather related issues in both the States and the UK the Group continues to signifcantly increase its free cash generation position and keep its debt reduction programme firmly on the right track.