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I agree there always seems to be occurrences to affect the recovering share price but I am surprised the fire didn't halt the recent increase, in fact I think it rose a wee bit after the announcement of the fire.. With a week or so until ex div date I would be very disappointed if the price dropped towards the 2220p mark. "Never sell Shell" ..... unless there is a big spike

I take it you mean you think this should be trading around the £24 with all the positives you state? Or do you think or hope this will be £24 in the short term ? Rdsb has performed very well since the bg purchase and has weathered and adapted to the lower oil price, although I am not confident that it will stay around the $50 mark for to long, still very irratic and this is seemingly the peak fuel use season in the US but am fairly confident this should be approaching a more stable value, barring all the external pressures put on a major company.

It's nice to see the share price creeping up to a more realistic sustainable yield , around 6.5% at today's prices. It would be comforting for the price to rise nearer the 5% area zone which would make this a long term "hold" in many folks static rather than trading portfolio.

I love optimism , but realistically I'm not sure that there are any better ndicators to suggest a £1 plus rise in the next week especially as the price for oil has already risen to the 50 d mark. Although it is encouraging the holdback in production or release of oil recently announced. I hope you are right and £22 becomes the new datum not £20.60 area. "Never sell shell ",...... although I will if it reaches £25 by autumn.

I would be extremely pleased but surprised if rdsb were at the levels you suggest by ex div date, this has made an amazing recovery in the last 18 /24 months from its £13 level, given that oil levels are so low, and don't look like rising in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure looking at historical price levels at certain times is a good indicator of future prices at certain times as this would make investing much easier. The dividends are a great consolation though while shell treads water before the latest by awaited oil price rise and hopefully share price rise that may track some of that increase. Fingers crossed and spend or get nicest that divi wisely.

Mms don't think so. This is hovering far too near to £20 for my liking especially with ex div date not too far away. But hey, never sell shell that's the mantra for those stuck in at uncomfortably high prices, but I'm holding as I'm one of those too, although we all know if only 10 dollar oil price rise would make a £2 difference straight away. And this is surprisingly fair price from the £13 last year with oil at similar lows.

that will have been the 10th retest then. it is frustrating, all the indications are of a break into the 130s but hey??? if it were only that easy. will it drop to 123 again, that has certainly the pattern recently. I'm holding.

Not sure itv special divi was reason the shares tanked 50p, numerous shares have dropped despite of special divis being paid, not because. It would be nice for long term investor to receive some recompense for the turbulent times experienced over the past few years. The share buy backs only seem to be bolstering up share price at the moment and not improving it in relation to sector peers.

good morning all.It is very frustrating when well established fairly high profile businesses, performs in a mediocre fashion but the management seem to compensate themselves in a more than mediocre fashion, but look on nearly all the boards here and you will see the same comments from the shareholders. I loved it when management of the big ftse 100 companies justified their huge pay packages and bonuses, with the comment that " you need to pay the best pay to get the best people" and then they were dropping like flies and squirming, trying to blame everyone for the financial crash. Im am indeed from the great Border city, born and bred, snow yesterday and sitting in the garden now having my coffee. I love the UK

Don't I know, it was resilient when I posted. I'm a holder here for divi anyway, ( I'm pig headed won't sell at a loss) The challenging conditions phrase is used by them all to justified their huge underperforming bonuses while our portfolios wither, come on man

I love when nearly everyone's predictions, either up or down are wrong ( mine included ) The fact is that we see patterns after the event, if shares were going to behave like they did before, to a pattern it would be easy, Saying that..... It's nearly all due to the Brexit uncertainty that is holding this back, in my opinion. I " think" only think that this could touch £5 by summer,

like most here, unsure of near future of stagecoach but I'm cautiously optimistic that after investing nearly £100 million for new vehicles, those "in the know" must be fairly positive about future growth to invest that much.

apart from the tiny bit of profit taking and the drop this morning (in line with the markets), this is looking resilient with ex div date on 21st.

I get your point, 2 years is a long time in the financial world but 4 year is another time altogether. Lets hope we are heading towards your reference point and not mine.

Im cautiously optimistic we may get back to the 475p trading level, but my biggest reservation is, and has always been the risk to European exposure. As was said 2 or 3 years ago by the then company head, our European exposure was very high but the rewards if PIGs do not default would be much greater than our competitors. I see nothing much different in Greece now to then, austerity, yes, a cut in public sector pay, yes, a cut in public projects spending , yes,a reduction in pensions, yes, but alas no increase in productivity so a therefore a huge reduction in the quality of public services and thus an increase in animosity towards EUROPEAN intervention which is re affirming the culture of tax evasion. Greece will need more help.

Experts had put a large part of the drop due to low fuel costs, meaning more private car journeys, and negative sentiment after the Paris bombings, with less mass travelling to major cities, on both bus and train. Hopefully with fuel prices static at the moment, spring approaching and the the positive UK tourism atmosphere ( ( (compared to some other Euro cities ) and being nicely placed to renew the franchise on South West Trains and the West Coast line renewal ( jointly with Virgin) it wouldn't take much to get back to £3 by spring, and £4 by mid summer.

with all the hype about the algorithms EMG's funds use, the share price just appears to track the market, both up and down. Lets hope we are entering a period of general positivity, if so we may well see 170p area as the datum and highs and lows off that level. lets not forget this was 85p 2 years ago.

as the BG price seems to be tracking the calculation to the days RSDB price, there is no benefit in buying those over shell, as if you bought RDSB shares you know exacty what you re going to get, is that right?

Thanks for that, youve explained what i really thought. There seems to be no real benefit in buying BG shares at all at the minute, as the value next week will ( may ) be within 4 or 5 pence of the price of RDSB shares which is seems to have been tracking this last week. Nice to see shell adr shares up tonight in USA

Possibly all the Cameron euro babble might be a small amount of cause. Let's not forget Aviva was slaughtered over the PIG euro crisis a couple of years ago, and it was well stated that they were more at risk than others if downturn , conversely more to gain if things went well