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Same same please Asperger, 90.5p, cheers .

Child/WL/NC etc

“Unless Tories sort this, they are sadly toast & Lloyds s.p will suffer”

A well thought out post, completely summing up LBG’s potential future.

STP

“As to the Tories, they have had 13 years to prove themselves and they have literally distroyed the country.”

He's either too young to remember the state of the country last time labour got booted out or he's that old he's lost his memory.

It takes all sorts.

Reading this could raise a few concerns.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/investing/cant-touch-300000-broker-shut-down/

Just done a quick round up. It appears that for my troubles this year I have returned a not spectacular 14.95% increase/return on my holdings, not including dividends. But it is what it is, a profit.

If only I could keep away from the odd AIM punt.

“Sad passing of a great man and visionary!”

Visionary! More like make it up as you go along, typical socialist. Yeah, he really thought the euro through lol.

This country has had some lucky escapes. First we didn't join the Euro, no thanks to Blair and then we had the foresite to leave the EU.

That's proper visionary for you. Where the UK lead's others will follow.

I spoke too soon.

This will save DT the trouble of highlighting this …..

“Britain's economy might now be in a recession according to data which showed output shrank in the July-to-September period, shortly after finance minister Jeremy Hunt suggested the Bank of England might cut interest rates to help boost growth.

Gross domestic product contracted by 0.1% in the third quarter, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

It had previously estimated that the economy showed no change compared with the previous three months.

The ONS also said economic output in the second quarter was now estimated to have shown no growth, a downwards revision from a previous estimate of 0.2% growth.

However, separate data showed retail sales in November jumped by much more than expected, increasing by 1.3% from October, boosted by discount sales.”

With figures from the ONS being constantly revised up or down, sometimes by quite large margins. You have to wonder if any employees there trade the market.

“late sell off on wall street last night so looks like ftse and sp opening down when markets open today.”

that could mean more****** from daft trader today then. spare us from the swedish property market meltdown, we're still waiting for the disastrous consequences of the chinese property fallout.

not that it's his concern on here, he's not a share holder. 🙂

Only sold half my holding on the way down from the recent high, beginning to think I should have sold the lot.

It has always been my intention to exit this before the general election and still is.

I wonder how labour’s GB Energy is going to measure up. Part of the money to set it up is going to come from the likes of CNA, it can't all come from nom-doms.

“Sunak / Hunt could has reduced the tax take on fuel. As many on here suggested, bringing down the inflation.”

The government reduced fuel tax rates for 12 months from march 2022. It may be still in force.

There have been no fuel duty increases since the conservatives have been in power. In real terms fuel (petrol/diesel) prices have reduced.

That will change when/if labour get elected.

Do I detect an improvement in the SP leading up to the 24th?

No explosion of volumes but with only some 140 odd million issued it doesn't take much to move this.

I reinvested at 114p some months ago and could have made that work better with the swings here.

But this investment lark is full of could haves.

Just saying.

"Investors turned more bullish in December, buying stocks and reducing cash holdings on expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve has finished raising interest rates and the global economy will avoid a deep recession, BofA's fund manager survey on Tuesday showed.

Investors are at their most overweight equities relative to cash since January 2022, according to a survey of 219 participants with $611 billion of asssets under management.

They are still overweight cash, but at their least overweight since April 2021, and their most overweight on equities since February 2022, the survey showed."

I guess it depends on what you perceive as overweight.

You can't be ‘fully’ invested all of the time unless you're not active with your investment choices.

“I would hate to even hazard a guess where lloyds might end up by the end of the year.”

I guess that's you out of Meerkats EOY comp then.

“About 15% of world shipping traffic transits via the Suez Canal, the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia.”

“Ample oil supply limited price gains on Monday. Brent and U.S. crude remain in contango, a structure in which oil for prompt delivery trades at a discount to crude for delivery later, suggesting a well supplied physical market.”

Reuters

Blinkered or what.

So many false facts from the disgruntled.

I hope your investment skills are better than your words of wisdom shown here. Alas, with all that negativity I doubt it.

Post away, but without links to your source it's all just bluster, and for the rest of us a bit of hilarity now and again.

“because of the atrocious build quality”

Yosser Hughes comes to mind. Gis a job I can do that.

Snap hardup.

Sedaka, you should listen to yourself….

December 4th.

“there will be no Santa Rally except possibly between 15th and 20th December which I have my doubts.”

December 13th

“the Santa Rally which I indicated could possibly be between the 15th and 20th ,although most unlikely , will definitely NOT now Materialise”

December 14th (today)

“Santa Rally has now run its course until next year.”

It's always good to take a view and be positive about it.

The Bank of England said on Tuesday that implementing the final leg of the global Basel bank rules will increase capital requirements at UK banks by 3%, far less than for their European Union and U.S. peers.

Britain, the EU, U.S. and other countries are now finalising how they will implement the final leg of the so-called Basel III capital standards, tailoring them to local circumstances.

The BoE said it estimates the impact of the final leg of Basel on UK banks will be "low" at an average increase in Tier 1 capital of about 3.2% once fully phased in by January 2030, down from an estimated 6% increase last year as data is refined.

"This is lower than the European Banking Authority’s estimate of a Tier 1 increase of around 10% in the EU and the US agencies’ estimate of a CET 1 increase of around 16% for US firms," the BoE said.

Looking like UK banks are fully capitalised, unlike our European and US counterparts.

But I guess we all know that, well except for the usual deniers. You know who you are.

In the absence of livestock the FTSE is expected to open up circa 10 points. 🙂