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Johnjo, the idea that a few comments on here will pump a ftse 100 stock is laughable - it might work on AIM companies where the mcap is a few million but this is £4.5 bn.

Stp, In case you were unaware of irish history the majority in the north , until recently wanted to remain with the UK and do not consider themselves 'occupied'. That may have changed in the last few years but to call the north 'occupied' is an insult to one section of the community, the section that gave us brave soldiers like Paddy Mayne , who fought to free countries that were really occupied during ww2. That happened while the south remained neutral and stood by and watched the nazis murder millions of innocent people.

Johnjo, have you still got your order in?

Johnjo, the numbers say you can buy £925m of profit for £4.5 bn. That mcap is ridiculously low and Pentland will want to see the value recognised either by the market or a bidder now imho. Whilst this is my largest holding , I can see me adding [again] next week as something positive will happen here imv.

Johnjo, on IG TV a few days back a presenter showed the Greggs share price graph on the day its results were out and it stepped down continuously from around £28 to £21 ish ultimately and he said it was somebody filling a large sell order - badly and pushing the SP down. Listening to him- he used to work for several big banks it seems par for the course with large orders .

Johnjo, I have not dealt in those quantities but can't you open a spread bet with the likes of IG?

There are some stats out on US retail sales shortly and that may affect the likes of Sporting Dicks with a read across to us.

I do think the market sees us as very UK biased which is no longer the cae.

Johnjo, why not open up a position with IG index ? - they are very efficient in my experience and their business model is not to trade against clients - laying off risk as they go - which seems more 'honest' to me.

Well, to fund tax cuts for working people £40 bn - this was reported;

Tice argued that this tax cut would help fuel an economic recovery by encouraging people back into work. “You cannot tax your way out of a crisis,” he said, “you grow your way out of it”.

The tax cut would be largely funded by preventing the Bank of England from paying interest on the deposits commercial banks hold at the Bank after quantitative easing.

Through quantitative easing, the Bank bought government bonds from financial institutions, funded by creating new commercial bank deposits on which it had to pay interest.

When interest rates were low, the yield the Bank received from government bonds exceeded the interest it had to pay on new commercial bank deposits. However, as interest rates have risen, the costs of the programme now comfortably exceeds the return from gilt yields.

The government is on the hook for the difference, which, according to Tice, is estimated to cost around £35bn in 2024. Tice described it as a “voluntary decision to rip off the taxpayer and enrich City institutions”

Lucky, I read the Reform Policy ideas and collectively they were the best by far, great ideas on VAT and Income tax etc but I thought it important to point out the bank levey would have cost shareholders.

I don't trust labour or the Tories or indeed the Lib Dems and none of them will ever get my vote.

Brixton, did you read the Reform statement on taxing the banks? Their plan was to levy the banks because they get free money from bank of England QE money which they place on overnight deposit. If they had been voted in the sp would be less than 50p imv. Full disclosure I have never voted for any party left of the Tories.

Just bought another £4k. IMV the sp was already down far enough to account for any bad news in the update . So even the shares are in the January sale this year!

Oldbutnotwisa you can become oldandwisa by reading the RNS statements and see that the numbers have not reallychanged overtime.

UK retailers hit this morning - DNLM has said it will meet expectations but its sp is continuing to slide. At some point UK stocks will reverse - but when?

Market is really hammering all UK retailers - even when they meeet guidance - thanks Labour .

Good figures out - cash exceeds expectations and good outlook means at least 2% on sp imv.

STP, Surely you agree with your Labour leader who said;

'In a statement on Wednesday evening, the Prime Minister said: "After months of devastating bloodshed and countless lives lost, this is the long-overdue news that the Israeli and Palestinian people have desperately been waiting for.

"They have borne the brunt of this conflict – triggered by the brutal terrorists of Hamas, who committed the deadliest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust on October 7 2023

No mention of genocide just Terrorists of Hamas.

I think I have more sympathy for the Palestinians than he does but then again I am not influenced by a jewish wife!

Kingfisher - great analysis - I think you are conservative on what the sp should be but I think we are held back because of where we mine.

FF- not me - Oxford ! I thought it was just the share price that had gone to the dogs but I see you are too!

Good luck , what is the dogs name? Airmax? That would stand a good chance of winning!

Great news - we can start flights to enable many more Palestinians leave their wrecked homeland and join us here in the UK to protest at the weekends over something or other.

Lloy flying today and up 30% over the last year - Barc flying today and up 93% over the last year - impact of car finance !