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'Farcical scenes from the Lords inquiry into BBC funding this afternoon, as half the panel charged with discussing the future of the licence fee immediately admitted to having financial interests – including pensions – in the BBC. This is a panel that also happens to include Tony Hall, the ex-Director General of… the BBC. Obviously this couldn’t possible prejudice the impartial outcome of the inquiry’s work'…
Just saying.

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Russia's got it all covered folks, with a response like this the Russian people can sleep easy.
Should make all the difference to the average man in the street.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian central bank on Tuesday said it was ready to take all necessary measures to support financial stability, as Russian assets were hammered by geopolitical fears after Moscow sent "peacekeeping" forces into eastern Ukraine.

In an effort to help the financial sector adapt to increased volatility, the central bank said banks would be permitted to use the market value of stocks and bonds in their portfolios as of Feb. 18 in earnings reports until October.

You can debate about the merits of each ISA according to costs, but for anyone with more than one stocks and shares ISA the true merits quickly become apparent when trying to get a price.
The last thing you think about is, I'm paying £20 less pa, when you can't catch a trade.
That's where the difference matters.

Yeah, there's plenty to be won...... and lost, away from the lumbering giant, that is LBG.

If you think Lloyds is on a wobble, spare a thought for Synairgen (SNG) investors today, after they announced their topline results from Phase 3 SPRINTER trial in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
Sadly it did not meet its primary or key secondary efficacy endpoints.
As a consequence the shares have retreated nearly 85% this morning.
There have been many 'touting' these on different LSE BB's of late as I'm sure you may have seen.
Don't like to see anybody lose money and hope they can recover. I was not an investor.

There's no such thing as bad publicity alfista....fill your boots Greta, you've been rumbled, you've had your day.

Keep the faith everyone, we've all enjoyed the quick ride up so you got to expect some turbulence.
I'm not expecting any announcement until next month lbjj, but you simply can't ignore it for a couple of weeks.
Let's hope, one way or another we'll all be put out of our misery very soon….If this trend continues I'll have to start buying back the ones I sold on the way up, although that was not my intention.
The only proviso for me is that we actually get a decision, positive or negative, from this government and not have to wait for the next one.

Being honest and truthful is not a stupidity, just saying.

Can't be nothing too clandestine Theosus, their transponders are still switched on.

Never been a Lth here, but bought a few this morning, while the market is waiting for Putin to make his mind up!With a beta value of over 2.0 this can be a good short term bet, we shall see.

Before things kick off here again this weekend, I thought I'd lighten the mood a bit with this gem from my little darling.
She left a note for me, as I've just got back from the pub.

I've gone shopping, could be some time. Your dinner is on the stove, you only have to light it, the gas is turned on
Love you xx

So thoughtful, don't you just love em.

It's grim up north, along with some (some, not all) of the residents, but we're hard, we eat porridge. ('_')

You can argue all you want about the o/a output, but at what cost. Most don't realise the subsides they are paying for the privilege of boasting about so-called green energy.

Equinor's investment in Dogger Bank — the world's largest offshore wind project under construction — will be unprofitable, according to a Norwegian government-funded study.

The new research raises challenging questions about the Norwegian state-controlled oil and gas giant's energy transition strategy.

https://www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-unprofitable-for-equinor-say-government-funded-researchers/2-1-1098012

Used to dornod, but now I rarely use limit orders of any kind.

"In my 24 years in the business, I've never seen anything like it, not even close"
He must be a youngster then, he's only got 24 years behind him.

You better hope there's no decision tonight, you might wake up with half the country cut off with no internet, due to storm Eunice.
Worse still, it might be the half where you are.

Happened to me once waiting for news on a share, when it came the news was great, the problem was, I was 35000 feet up in the air at the time.

"Anyone any thoughts on the situation in Turkey?"
That explains why Chips hasn't posted of late, she's got wind of the "donations" of gold and gone to ground. :~)
Either that or Brixton's upset her just once too often.
Wouldn't surprise me if Erdogan asks the EU for a bit more help holding back the so-called tidal wave of migrants waiting at the border.

Putin's got the West in a state of confusion and the FTSE seems to be following, lacking direction.
The news outlets show a couple of tanks being loaded onto a train and they report it's all over and Putin's backed down. Meanwhile it's reported that Russian troop numbers are increasing on the border.
With oil and miner stocks following suit, leading the FTSE direction, he could keep this up all summer.
The West is frantically trying to identify Russian oligarchs' assets and all the while we wait for Lloyds final results next week.
Does anyone think that no matter what the results tell us, it is likely to be met with a damp squib by the market with the SP following on.
Just when some were planning to stay invested until after results day and sell on the 'bounce' to take their profits before the summer.

The phrase “the best laid schemes of mice and men” comes to mind. Just when you think you have a carefully laid out plan to exit this before the summer and get ahead of the market, something always turns up, in this case that someone could be Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. His name coupled with Lloyds Banking Group was not on anyone's lips last summer!!!
Just thinking out loud and musing on, this morning.
GLA, whatever you decide.

CPI (yoy) 5.5%.
RPI (yoy) 7.8%.
Just filling in as Ls is absent this morning. :-)

" knew exactly what he was talking about."
I got that video completely wrong, I thought it would be Hawkeye and Hot Lips.