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I've been under the impression that Laponia's current boundaries were established to include a so called "buffer zone"
If there's any ambiguity the government of the day shouldn't have issued an exploration license in the first place.
Swedish governing body's are a complete fiasco, all of em.

A few years ago now, but the only time I actually bought Lloyds at the bottom, was on a Friday and sold at the top on the following Monday.
Just luck, that's why I remember it.

The governor of the Bank of England has said the UK should avoid becoming a financial services “rule taker” from the EU at all costs, even if it meals failing to strike a deal covering the sector.

Andrew Bailey told MPs that following EU rules on financial services indefinitely would be too high a price to pay for access to the single market and free flow of trade for financial services.
“I would strongly recommend that we don’t become a rule taker. I think that is a very bad place to end up in. If the price of that is no equivalence, then I’m afraid that will follow.”
The EU has asked the UK to provide more information on its plans for future regulation of finance. Bailey said this was “quite problematic”.

“What’s the motivation here? I can think of only one that is sensible,” he said.

“The first motivation would be that the EU thinks the rules should never change — that’s obviously mad.

“Secondly, they think that our rules should only change when their rules change. That would obviously be rule taking.

“The third one, which is the sensible one, is that both of us will change our rules when it’s sensible to do so, we’re both transparent about it, but obviously we’d be transparent at the time and we’ll be transparent to everybody.”

My post earlier today (12:20) and the resultant discussion / confusion only serves to justify my comment.
It's the current metrics that count when analysing this share for future scrutiny.

I fail to understand why peeps keep quoting or asking about the "old" SP, seems some just can't move on.
It has absolutely no relevance whatsoever to the current SP.

Every reason to be jubilant regarding the vaccine, I see there's discord within the EU regarding the rollout over there.
Hope you're reading this NC.....
"Germany U turns away from Europe to follow UK's vaccine strategy.
Germany sneakily made a bilateral deal with BioNTech-Pfizer for 30 million doses in September, while the EU was refusing to make hasty purchases. Following Britain’s rejection of the EU vaccination scheme in the summer. The UK often boasts of having vaccinated more people than the whole of the EU combined. To give an idea of just how far behind the EU scheme is lagging, Germany – which has carried out less than a quarter of the UK’s vaccination tally – is able to make the same claim.
And just yesterday Germany began seriously considering a British-style delay to administering second doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, in order to cover a wider array of vulnerable people more quickly, according to a document seen by Reuters yesterday. First following Brexit Britain to make non-EU Commission led purchase orders. Now about to follow Brexit Britain’s dosing regimen."

Someone mention that he can't see Lloyds buying back half the issued shares.
Check out the market cap, Lloyds paid nearly that in PPI payments.
Just saying.

"On that basis alone, rightly or wrongly I took some profit earlier today.
Time will tell."
Me yesterday, clearly time did tell for today at least.

Seems this Finnish bank wanted to reward investors regardless and the authorities have no authority. The SP surged as much as 20%, and traded 10% higher, can't see it happening here somehow.

Finland’s financial watchdog is trying to figure out how to respond after a lender it oversees explicitly disregarded the European Central Bank’s guidelines on shareholder rewards.

The decision by Alandsbanken Abp, announced on Jan. 1, to pay almost four times the dividend cap set by the ECB is “unfortunate,” Jyri Helenius, head of banking supervision at the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority, said in an interview. The lender acted without its watchdog’s permission, but Helenius acknowledged there’s not much he can do about it.

“We expect banks to comply with the recommendation, even though we aren’t able to make it legally binding,” Helenius said. “It’s unfortunate that a Finnish bank is slipping from the common European front on this.”

Last month, the ECB lifted a de facto ban on dividends but urged banks to limit such shareholder payouts to less than 15% of profit for 2019 and 2020, or 0.2% of their key capital ratio, whichever is lower. Alandsbanken says it plans to pay out 59% of 2019’s earnings, citing record profits that year.

The lender’s Class A stock, adjusted for being ex-dividend today, surged as much as 20%, and traded 10% higher at 23.80 euros as of 11:14 a.m. Helsinki time.

The cap on bank dividends in the euro zone is stricter than in the U.K. and Switzerland and has prompted criticism from some corners of the financial industry. ?

I've never heard the words environmental and no extra costs mention in the same sentence. :-))

New strain or original, vaccine or no vaccine, the reports from Europe and the US clearly show there are considerable headwinds. On that basis alone, rightly or wrongly I took some profit earlier today.
Time will tell.

Don't disagree with you there Rosewall, although this won't go to the last day as we're probably talking anything up to three months from agreeing a purchase to actually paying stamp duty on completion.
The traditional spring time buyers will have probably missed out unless Sunak extends it.

Good to see that you've emerged unscathed after your New year's revelling on the beaches down there in Brighton Alamal, made the news on the MSM :~}

When this 'overhang' is cleared expect the SP to find it's floor, although the market cap is consistent with the additional monies raised ATM.

FF23, I think they'll need a bit more than that with LKAB's latest announcements to spend $47b into making their operations environmentally friendly.
According to the FT to achieve this they will need enough electricity equivalent up to a third of the national supply.

Bank of England data showed on Monday that UK mortgage approvals hit 104,969 in the month, up from 98,338 in October, beating expectations of a slowdown in the housing market boom amid the economic downturn.

The total for the first 11 months of 2020 now stands at around 715,000, just shy of the levels reached in 2018 and 2019.

The rise in demand was propelled by the stamp duty holiday, which expires at the end of March and is worth up to £15,000 ($20,000) to homebuyers.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-mortgage-approvals-housing-bank-of-england-13-year-high-november-112737639.html

That's the easy part, it's a bit harder paying it back.
Just saying.

I was making a joke - so was I Dohnut, it was intended as light hearted, you'll figure it.

Abject misery, overwhelming anxiety over six million on antidepressants, now I know you're upset Donuts when half your post disappear, wiped out, vanished, but you'll have to get over it just like the rest of us, lol.
Personally I've found a trip to the juicer is the best medicine and if everyone has enough it's a great equaliser, cheers.

Yeah, but "this English is no longer the British English," well I don't think it's American English!!!
If you come to the conclusion that you can't replace it with French, German or Italian. Why not try Greek, that way you could employ more Greeks as interpreters seeing as your policies have made most of em unemployed.
That Macron has started his re-election campaign quite a bit early this time around, he must be getting worried about Marine.
Just glad we can watch it all unfold from the sidelines.

You never know, it may well be if they start looking at Sweden, lol.

https://www.mining.com/web/china-to-build-overseas-iron-ore-mines-to-ensure-supply/

Thought I'd just have a quick scroll through yesterday's contributions on here. Blimey, Donuts kept you all busy, my brains addled :-))

Mr Meerkats competition, 2020.
(I see you've corrected the date)
Same as last year 90.5p please Asperger.