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Trekmadone, I am intersted in some of the FTSE 250 high yielders that you mention. Where did you come across these? Are there sites you could recommend where I can research?

If, as Putin claims, the Ukraine war is coming to an end then EVR may be eventually re-listed. I live in hope!

So Denziil,what's your assessment; buy, hold or sell?

For the initated, I am trying to understand the following:

So on the ex-dividend date, the money paid to shareholders has left the company and shareholders see the value of their shares drop by the amount of the dividend. I get that. But why does the SP start increasing again? What I mean is, why does each twice yearly bite of the apple not make it so small so that it doesn't exist at all? So LGEN with let's say a 10% yield, has this reduction in value every year for 10 years. How is it not worth zero now? The same question applies to all other dividend - paying shares.

Yes nicknaim, could be a good call. Problem is, what will you do with the proceeds of sale? Buy LGEN tomorrow? More dealing costs and stamp duty though.

Nicknaim, you can't predict the market. Just when you think there's "more doom around the corner", the market surprises you!

What's your rationale?

"Still sitting on cash waiting for the sell-off."

Very choppy trade today. Unusual. Anyone noticed?

While I usually don't pay too much attention to Motley Fool, they say that UBS is concerned that L&G's earnings do not quite cover dividend and is paying out more than they can afford. Anyone disagree with this? Also tey cite RBC Capital's cutting of SP forecast to 220p due to declining earnings. Opinions / alternative facts, anyone?

Yes, stocks will resume their upward trajectory. Wall St. calls it the TACO trade. Trump always Chickens out. 300p seems wildly optimistic though!

He's messed everything up but he will relent in face of stock market decilines in the next week or so. Problem: Iran doesn't think so.

Hi all,

I'mIrish and the Irish government are planning to introduce a tax free savings scheme similar tothe British ISA -although they seemto be taking lessons from the Swedish model.Can I ask contributors to this boardthe following:

1.So I know that you can contribute 20k before the 5th April each year. Can you hen leave it there even if its value including dividends goes up to say 25k before the next Apr 5th? Can you leave it for a number of years?

2. Do you open a new ISA account the following year or just contribute another 20k to the existing account?

I'd appreciate your answers. It will be 2027 before this is available to Irish citizens and obviously I will be taking advantage of it! Thanks in advance!

Bought more at 240.7. This share now represents about 25% of my portfolio. It's always treated me well! However I'll have to look at offloading a chunk during the summer as 25% is too much.

Yes, well done Stockplay. Feck Trump, he's given my pension fund a close haircut.

Is that the reasonfor today's 5% SP jump?

Is that the reason for today's 5% SP jump?

Divi Collector and licker, your hopes of 300 to 350 and 400p are extremely optimistic. I also hope your hopes are realised. But today's 2.70p is a 3 year high? I've been in LGEN for about 4 years and in my pension fund it's now my top holding by value. But of course 3 years ago I could have chosen AV and done a lot better. I've been in the market for 35 years and your posts, Divi, suggest you are a very young, inexperienced investor. However LGEN is a good investment in my opinion. But don't be surprised if it hits 2.20 0r 2.40 again.

Can any of you distinguish between 'there' and 'their'? It really would make a difference. I might even listen to you. But if someone is illiterate in spelling, how can I believe in his / her financial literacy? If one can't spell correctly, how can that person make a sound financial decision to invest in a share? Because it's 3p? Oh it must be worth more than that in the long term. Maybe even £3? Don't get excited now. There there.

I can make no sense of this recent jump in SP. Rotation out of US tech stocks? Build-up to April ex div date? Can anyone enlighten me?