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Dinky(below) here says it's stated by brokers, in Shares magazine, as a speculative buy.

what i meant was you're alright....AS LONG AS you are sure the company you invested in is a company that will still be around by the time you remember again that you bought their shares! =)

UNIQ is now in late stage talks to sell their european holdings to shore up the balance sheet(mainly pension deficit) and also turn into profit. the market likes the sound of that. the only issue is pension deficit but not really a fatal matter. opreating well within revolving credit facility with lloyds. won major contract with M&S, biggest beneficiary of M&S supplier consolidation. there is also talk of northern foods possibly bidding for UNIQ. at least put UNIQ on your watch list if u are not planning to buy in yet(but news is expected any day now). they were planning to sell Marie(of France) by june but they have been keeping absolutely quiet. once on your watch list, buy in when somebody gets impatient/tired, sells and the price drops momentarily - ensure you are doing a live trade. perhaps get a foot in first, then buy in if there is a drop? also don't forget to check for any news if u see a drop. but don't blame me if it all goes pear shaped! it just doesn't look like it's going to, at the moment. =)

u again!!! lol...i just replied to you on UNIQ. so which board next? =)

alright matey - yeah, i feel for all the MECers...after the 4th postponement, i sold half my holdings at a small profit because it was taking too long and something started smelling fishy. then when the final RI announcement came, boy the 6 for 1 was a bit too much to absorb. i do admire your positivity though. as they say, between optimists and pessimists, optimists are the ones that get things done. =) late nights are when i do most of my research...when it's all nice and quiet and i can think. but i've noticed sometimes something that clicks in my head hits me on the drive home from work too....lol...like WHY and RAY.

UCP is the 2nd largest real estate company in India, after DLF. short term funding sorted through convertible bonds. and some of the rest based on memory :- 1. NAV is more than £1 per share 2. morgan stanley selling their holdings here but i cannot remember why - nothing detrimental. once their shares run out, these shares could fly. 3. nectrus makes token buys to try shore up the share price but it looks like they have stopped momentarily while morgan stanley is still selling. 4. hsbc bought a 16% stake not so long ago i somewhat agree with redarrows that perhaps fair value for UCP with current economic climate, factored impairment charges, etc. should be an estimation of 25p. but if morgan stanley closes their position here the same time as the arrival of the recovery, these could really fly. until then, you can always ride the ups and downs. =)

hah...so it's the brokers who started the rumour. =) there will no doubt be a lot of equity fundraising, mergers and takeovers throughout 2009. and as previously discussed, it's entirely possible.

if u are the kind of investor that sits at the screen watching your share prices go up and down everyday, i would suggest doing some top slicing too. but if u are the kind that buys some shares, chucks it away(or forget about it) till next year, then u're alright.

alright mate - cheers, yeah it's been ok(for me) today despite the FTSE being flat. i've lost my base holding in MWA though...but i plan to buy back in on the retrace. sometimes it pays to have level 2 info if u are seriously thinking about doing some day trading. it gives you just a bit more demand information to make decisions on quick trades. i am normally a long term investor so that is why i study a company's fundamentals a lot. but lately, i find myself doing more short term trading. always good to lock in some gains.

half my holdings here today, to top slice. not much though....but just in case. still have my base holdings here for the long term. i will top up again once price of titanium starts rising which could be soon as it looks like it has bottomed out on the chart. liquidity ratio here is a healthy 2:1 and short term finances sorted so no worries over short-medium term. short term borrowings is a laughable USD$8000. =)

loftya, would appreciate a bit of assistance on L2 info here...amount of buys vs sells, etc...

what's happening here today? this has shot up too!

this obviously has strong support level....those who sold at 19p had their shares snapped up. now it's back to 19p bid price. =)

just shot up to 5.25p on my trading platform. another regret for not topping up! =)

i'm glad to see we didn't panic sell when it fell to 4p. it's bounced off now after the RNS institutional buy affirmed this is a solid company.

a poster from ADVFN linked this :- http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/articles.aspx?page=articles&ID=200656 i heard market concensus seems to be £20m. if UNIQ indeed does sell Marie and the share price indeed does go up and you have no idea of how much they should be worth, here's a very very simplified calculation. total shares in issue is 114,833,817. just take the sale price, divide by that figure and you have cash per share. so if any of UNIQ's assets are sold for :- £20m = 17.4p cash per share £30m = 26.1p £40m = 34.8p £50m = 43.5p £60m = 52.2p that's cash alone. does not include property & equipment, current cash in bank, potential future earnings, borrowings, trade payables, goodwill, etc. NAV per share is already almost 60p but the market is pricing them at less than 20p now. anyway, just a thought. it would be a shame if market capitalisation of UNIQ is less than cash & cash equivalents. if u can form an idea of how much your shares are worth, just ensure that you get the right price for your disposal. i'm here long term so personally, I secretly prefer a delayed sale to command a better price when markets properly recover rather than a firesale now. after all, Marie is generating a profit.

there's a few more than this but the summary is :- 1. revenue of over £800m 2. unable to deliver profit at the EBITDA level because european operations bled whatever profit generated in UK 3. tried for 5 years(or more?) and embarked on restructuring programs in 2006 4. gave up a few months back and altered strategy to focus on domestic operations only 5. in the process of disposing european operations, a few potential suitors 6. gained market share from other M&S suppliers benefiting on economies of scale 7. only problem is pension deficit but which big company hasn't these days it's not history that is interesting in this share, but where they are going in the future.

i am the only one here now.

all the buys. the price dropped towards market close. i think everybody must have been rushing in to buy at this price.

i bought in here - finally. at 14.5p. glad to be in the same boat as HSBC.