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https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-demand-for-stronger-steel-makes-vanadium-a-hot-commodity-11545912002

Let’s hope some shorters feel the squeeze today :-) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46690452

due to load-shedding:

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/289370-load-shedding-creating-massive-demand-for-battery-backup-systems.html

Continues:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/26/shell-says-it-wants-to-double-green-energy-investment

Off on my Xmas hols today for a few days of sun fun and frolics, so here's wishing you all a very Merry Xmas and all of us a happy and VERY PROSPEROUS New Year!! :-)

Dunno faramog, but I’m hopeful that FM will stick to his principle of looking after shareholders interests by not diluting unnecessarily. I’d like to see him go down the debt route, because with the cash Vametco is generating it shouldn’t be difficult to pay that down in double quick time

In view of the current troll activity, some sound advice distilled from other posts:

1. That we all please either ignore or filter any clear disruptors to the board.
2. Do not engage with them as this is what they want.
3. Create and post your own new threads.
4. As some have already said "ignore the trolling POS"

If we all follow the above advice then we can win; if just one of us doesn't then we will all lose

It still seems that the BB is infested.

Could I suggest that in light of the fact that:

1. next week will most likely be low on trades
2. the infestation will still be present
3. the games will therefore continue
4. the SP will most likely drop a little more

BUT,

5. we have seen it all before
6. we have come through this sort of nonsense and risen to new highs nevertheless
7. our fundamentals continue with strength

That we all please either ignore or filter any clear disruptors to the board. Do not engage with them as this is what they want. Create and post your own new threads.

History has shown that we will soon be able to laugh at any infestation in the knowledge that we have made yet more profit and are part of the best investment for many years, if not decades.

Each to their own, but having filtered our latest pests, I am now finding it difficult to read the BB with much clarity as many posters keep replying to our "non English competent", "short term chart investor", yet "fundamentals based investor", who contradicts himself and plays the same games on various other boards.

Whether he/she is an MM avatar or otherwise, I don't really care. He/she will be gone as soon as our BOD do what they have done best for the past 5 years and hit the market with yet another piece of the jigsaw.

As some have already said "ignore the trolling POS"

And I see RK has just posted the content of SD's post (thanks mate), but it still strikes me as odd that the original post no longer exists...

Smokedodger posted a useful link to a positive news article about the price of V in 2019 at 13:38 today; however that post has been removed for some mysterious reason. I wonder if its removal could be anything to do with our unwelcome bridge-dwelling visitors? Are they somehow able to make positive news items from independent sources disappear? That's a worrying trend if true.

Anyway, here it is again (and thanks to Smokedodger for finding it and posting it in the first place)

https://www.vanadiumprice.com/sweating-bullets-about-vanadium-in-2019-heres-what-could-happen/

just appeared from y'day

16:26:46 48.2500 863,410 O 46.0000 47.0000 Buy 3,802,559 2,199,871
16:01:00 48.4021 817,323 O 46.0000 47.0000 Buy 2,939,149 2,199,871
15:53:35 48.1000 250,000 O 46.0000 47.0000 Buy 2,121,826 2,199,871
16:26:18 48.5000 250,000 O 46.0000 47.0000 Buy 1,871,826 2,199,871

https://www.france24.com/en/20181218-two-ex-presidents-ravalomanana-rajoelina-madagascar-presidential-elections

Thanks chaps, HL has suddenly freed up as well ;-)

Market problems? I can neither buy or sell £50 worth on HL!!

https://www.vanadiumprice.com/eskom-creditors-may-yet-share-south-africas-pain/

"Eskom creditors may yet share South Africa’s pain

Date: Dec 18, 2018

With its mix of communists, trade unionists and liberation fighters, South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is an unlikely backer of bondholders’ over workers’ rights. Yet the plans to lift state electricity giant Eskom out of a 419 billion rand ($30 billion) debt hole imply just that.

Eskom has four potential levers to get out of the hole. It can ask for more money from the government, beg the regulator to hike prices, cut jobs, or restructure its own debt. The group appears to be considering the first three.

The first part of the plan is a sort of backdoor bailout. Eskom wants to shift 105 billion rand of debt to the state. That might chop perhaps a quarter off its annual interest bill, or about 9 billion rand – if the heavily-indebted government agrees.

The other two legs look harder. Eskom wants to hike electricity prices, and cut 16,000 jobs. Assume a 7.5 percent tariff hike, and Eskom could boost annual revenue by 15 billion rand, while the reported job cuts imply savings of perhaps 11 billion rand. Chalk it all up, and Eskom could save 35 billion rand a year. That would nearly cover the shortfall between cash from operating activities and debt service costs, based on first half figures.

All three proposals face challenges. Unions will object to large scale firings, and the population will resist tariff increases. Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Dec. 13 rejected the debt swap idea, suggesting a bailout is off the table. That makes it more likely that private bondholders will contribute, particularly holders of 150 billion rand of debt lacking a sovereign guarantee.

To read full article please click here"

All missing trades have now appeared on MoneyAM, now we can see what went on this pm

I've just checked half a dozen AIM shares and some of them have trades showing right up to now, others show no trades after 2pm-ish. Intermittent fault I think...?

Anyway, we closed up 5% so I'm happy with that :-)

or on HL but there must be trading going on cos the midpoint just jumped to 41.25 :-)

Looks like there's a problem then cos there's no trades after 14:08 showing on here, on Equiniti or on MoneyAM

NorthBank, what time did you buy your 24391 shares? I'm just thinking it's really strange that there's been no trades for over 90 mins, and your share doesn't appear in earlier trades, so maybe comms are down re trade reporting?