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Surprised to not see more chatter here with today's stellar rise. With a move like that it suggests that somebody somewhere knows something, which is good news for the rest of us who are kept in the dark! Hopefully the start of something big and not just a one day phenomenon.

It wasn't me!

5% today enough of a dip for you?

Well, these buy-backs are going well!!! between 50k and 400k shares purchased daily and the price keeps slipping downwards. Where on earth would the SP be without this artificial support? I'm now well in the red on this share, not a situation I envisaged given their business sector and low Covid-19 impact. What will be the trigger to force the market to re-evaluate this and put it back up towards 340p?

Your comment on the pound is slightly concerning as for the last 20 years 1.40 to 1.70 has been the most common range for GBP/USD rate. The reasons for the lows post Brexit vote will ease over time and I expect it to get back to that 1.40-1.70 range in the coming months/years. UK business needs to get back to thinking of that as the norm when trading abroad.

Finally after averaging down twice I'm back at break even with GSK. So people think this is the start of something big or are we just establishing a slightly higher trading range that GSK will bob up and down in for the next 12 months? If it's the latter, I'm tempted to cut and run... This has been a thorn in my side for a long time now!

Lol, I can't believe they blocked out "co.cktails"!!!

Hmmm, 80p would be nice but this is after all a broker downgrade (from 100p previously). Down 5.4% on the day so this news was not well received.

I think buying into housebuilders in the last 6-9 months has been a no-brainer and pretty easy money. Since it became clear they would be able to ride out the pandemic and recover rapidly this has been a great investment sector. From this point forward however, I suspect it will not be so easy. Does anyone have any thoughts on which of the UK housebuilders are still undervalued and have further to go? I'm thinking quality housing in the right locations is the key (without having precise ideas on what that actually means just yet).

All weekend I've been seeing coverage from Bloomberg, the FT and others about the chip shortage around the globe which makes the loss making IQE even more of a mystery. I understand that not all chips are the same, but if they can't satisfy this demand and make a profit, maybe they are making the wrong chips? I also see from others posts and the news on this site that they even have spare capacity... what are they playing at? This sounds like a boom time for their industry where they should be able to exercise pricing power to increase margins on increased volumes. If they can't make money in these circumstances is there any hope for them?

Yes, just landed in my Barclays ISA in the last hour.

Looks about right... 14.7p divi is no longer available, 14p drop as I write.

I think the end of quarter rebalancing affected the UK market as a whole, plus Persimmon has had a good run so some funds may have slimmed down their holdings a little. I feel pretty confident about the UK market generally and the housebuilders particularly, so here's to a good Q2 of 2021!

Shhh... we're sleeping (albeit with our fingers crossed!).

Don't forget the currency issue... A lot of ULVR revenue comes from outside the UK so as the pound is currently on a upward spurt, that income is worth less when converting it into GBP. The pound weakness has largely been because of uncertainty around Brexit and so is due a revaluation. Not sure how high it could get to in the coming months, looking at the GBP/USD you have to go back to 2014 for 1.70 and 2016 for 1.50. It hasn't been above 1.42 since June 2016!

Contra to the rest of the market, currently down 5%. Anyone got any insights? I can't see any news or trades hinting at anything being afoot!

Maybe Joshua is running his own short squeeze! ;-)

CRST is one bright spot in a sea of red today!

It's gotta sting clinging onto shorts when the price has shown a steady rise since March. I wonder what Ennismore are waiting for?

Hopefully this news has put RCDO on the radar of the "green tech" brigade. They will invest in anything eco related, so maybe we can end up with a hyper-inflated share price! Not sure that will help the company, but such is life.