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Thanks for that Lti, goes some way to explain that.

Slightly off course there jot750, Beeching died in 1985, Don't know how he achieved all that in 2013.
Hope it's not the same source as your climate change rantings.

"A CBDC is a digital currency issued by central banks directly to consumers and backed by fiat reserves."

Surely anything backed by fiat, renders any digital currency subject to the ravages of inflation and the like?

I was under the impression that crypto has a finite resource i.e. cannot be added to therefore protecting its value.
In what way is it backed by fiat currency

Any crypto experts here to explain?

Hiya aug, still here then.

nick, if that post was aimed at me I think you're getting me mixed up with someone else who appears on this BB from time to time.
Have a read back some and you'll probably figure out who I'm talking about.

It was a no trainer buying LBG when it reached that gap.
I would think every man and his dog bought around that price, at least the ones who had the resources. The way it bounced off of that low tells you that.
I bought some at around 24.3p at the time, since sold.
I also bought at 26.41p and 27.37p probably on the way down and on the way up (can't be bothered to look at the dates) still holding them.
Btw, I always include the SDRT in my figures.
Very rarely post my trades on here, not even after the event lol.
Just saying.

"It will change massively with a positive decision."

In bygone days, (well it's been a few years, even Suzy would accept that lol) there we were with c160 million shares and CSP doing the rounds stating a potential 600 MT resource with an SP of 70p.
Ok,so let's bring ourselves up to date. The way this is playing out, whether we get a positive or negative decision treetop, there may not be scope for such a massive change.
BEM could have well over a billion shares by then (and still not have control over Vardar lol).
With each fund raise comes less scope for significant gains in the SP.
But hey, that's the nature of the AIM, why should Beowulf be any different?
However, if a decision is not forthcoming before next year's election, by the time it takes this system of government to form the next one and get installed can anyone seriously expect a yes or no before 2023?
I've no idea of the current cash burn but we might be waiting another 18 months for the Swedes to start acting according to their mandate here, who knows?

Not wrong again Suzy, my comment referred to the number of notifications this morning.
I appreciate it's a busy time for BEM atm, and how difficult it is to keep up with all these RNS releases, hence the title of my thread.
At the very least it got some numbers on the chat count.

UK home sales half in October, now there's a suprise.

Just about to have a look to see if anything is happening here and saw the following. Number of notifications...…
News - 0
Chat - 0
RNS - 0
Director deals - 0
Broker ratings - 0
Trades - 0

Despite contributors' best efforts, government, or in this case no government, nothing really changes here does it?

"why would they have a rise right on xmas."

"never rise interest rates in December."

"it is unlikely that they will rise in December."

The consensus here seems a no, to a rise because its December and Christmas is coming.
If the case warrants it, that cannot be the reason for no rise in December?
After all they're not politically motivated and completely independent……. aren't they?

"We seem to have lost a lot of experts."

On the contrary billy, when there's no Lloyds relevant news, all the experts appear as if by magic and start giving their specialist one line deliberations…... usually something about 50p, although other numbers have been mentioned.
A lot of thought and research goes into posts on these BB's and can be a good source of information for the benefit of all, we should all be thankful for everyone's input.

As for me, I'm just taking the p***.

You must have been extremely fortunate to have had your buy accepted during what was an opening price establishment period.
I never seem to have such luck whenever I try it.
I'm still waiting for an entry top up here but willing to wait as I don't think we've heard the last of this latest covid news.
I must say we still haven't been abroad yet ourselves as we usually take a winter sun break somewhere.
Just saying.

Blimey, not many posts today.

The amount of published text, rules and regulations etc attributed to the independence of the BoE is akin to something that's dreamed up every day and spewed out of Brussels for some new directive. It's almost as if they have something to hide!
That said, if you step back and think about it, the government of the day and the BoE cannot and could not work absolutely independently. They are intrinsically entwined in their sometimes opposite objectives (if that makes sense) and anyone who thinks differently surely needs to be enlightened.
Although some governments simply don't seem to know the difference between monetary and fiscal policy, given enough time they soon find out.

The BoE are Independent only in the fact that they are separate authorities but the bank's authority and responsibility derive from parliament and more importantly is accountable to parliament.

I think this thread is just about done to death, as I said earlier these are just my opinions.

"overstating your case"
Lti, last week there was no way the BoE had privileged access to any confidential official statistics, this week they do.
Overstating?
On the contrary, I rest my case. :~}

The BoE are a bit like climatologists in making predictions.
One can tell you what the weather will be in two decades time but can't predict what will happen in two days time.
The other can give you an inflation ballpark figure for 12 months time but can't predict the next month's rate.
We have a word for this: it's called guesstimate, anyone can do it.

hardup, that Times article is just page filling, it's complete BS. Of course Huw Pill refused to confirm anything, he can't. All members of the MPC are under a strict contract that prevents them commenting on most things that are within their remit, even after their contract ends and they are no longer a member of the MPC.
Here's some of the conditions of employment attached to their contract.

Everything you do or say formal or informal must be done through the press office, that includes social media posts, interviews and writing articles even if it has nothing to do in general with the BoE.

Do not make any statements, this will be done by the BoE governor as he is chair of the MPC.
He, Andrew Bailey, has now learnt how to talk to the media... perhaps!

Do not associate in any way with any political parties, absolutely no political involvement.
Even though the BoE governor is appointed by the government at that time.

If you're aware of any research, lectures or academic publications where MPC business may be discussed you must inform the press office immediately.

You must not make any statements about how the resulting base rate decision is arrived at, you could mislead or confuse the public about monetary policy.

In addition, members will from time to time receive privileged access to confidential official statistics on a pre-release basis (surprise surprise), as sanctioned by the National Statistician (the ONS). You must not tell anyone or give no clues about these confidential official statistics. Just as I suspected.

Do not provide any personal views about monetary policy because it might undermine the standing of the Bank.

Even after leaving office you must comply for a period of time to continue with these conditions. Failure to comply will result in an agreed/additional fee to be withheld after you have ceased employment.

The BoE has to project impartiality at all times!!!
Of course.

I expect as is usual when companies buy back shares there will be a limit as to how many, they (Merrill Lynch) can purchase in any one trading session. This is usually up to a maximum of 10% of that days turnover, so as not to 'distort' the trading market for RMG shares.
Don't expect an incremental increase in the SP as the purchased shares are cancelled, in many cases it sometimes appears to work against it for some reason, general sentiment I guess. But nothing is black or white in this game.
GLA.

"I think there is little doubt this has the market worried."
It's certainly got my travel stocks worried Paul!

Re: ''(remember him?)''
Yeah, he did go off on one at the end, before they banned him.
But apart from that some of his postings made sense, to me at least.
He's now on ADVFN I believe.

As I said just forward guidance, from whatever source, not a full report.
It's well known the MPC have access to certain data that is not in the public domain.

LTi, I would expect the MPC to have some forward guidance on any forthcoming ONS or other relevant data.
JMO.......... (remember him?).