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Oilbarron - you've been unusually quiet today. Any views on the offer put forward? I know it's not the £5.50 you were expecting but at least it's an offer at long last.

To my mind this has been trading in the £3.30's recently so an offer at £3.57 did come as a bit of an anticlimax. Hoping for better offers to be put forward soon.

I suspect they will extend the PUSU deadline once more. Then get the trading update out of the way. After that when the dust has settled we will find out whether or not a formal bid is forthcoming.

Can't see the deadline being extended beyond August.

Trading update due next month. Should be a good one.

Today's drop triggered a couple of big stop losses at 300p, think it was at 14.20. Hopefully we won't get many more large redemptions before the updatems.

They can't buy or sell if they have access to the data room. They'd be insider dealing.

Compliance and AML are often referred to as the business prevention unit. Sometimes a risk based decision is taken by management in an attempt to bypass all the perceived hurdles that are put in front of account managers. This gets the funds flowing but any gains will soon be wiped out by having to go back and do the vetting properly. Not saying that is what has happened here, but this sort of thing can happen where management feel under pressure to put profits before compliance.

Still, an RNS from CE would be nice confirming.

Well, if there isn't any offer maybe there is scope for a special dividend. They paid decent special dividends not too long ago.

Thanks OB. Also bought in this am.

Not looked into the potential buyer too much but they appear to be in the hotel business.

Why would they be going after an energy producer...? What am I missing here...?

Maybe they have fingers in all sorts of.pies, but is the energy sector one of them? Sorry if it's a silly question but I don't get their interest here.

Scheduled for 30 April 2026, accoding to the financial calendar on the website.

Should be an interesting day ;)

Houthis supporting Iran and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait referred to in the video is now potentially also under threat.

They are not yet making threats toward the strait but oil price will be going up on the threat of a threat.

Maybe he's banging his head against the table repeatedly saying "Idiots, idiots, idiots. Averaging down when they should be preserving capital" :)

Just a bit of fun Pogo001. Some of your posts were a good read. Come back on here with your latest thinking, when you feel like it. I'll read it for certain.

Where's he gone? Not posted since 15.00 yesterday.

Pogo001 - it's not necessary to include the word "idiots" each time you post here. Check your last 4 posts. You can make the same points without the insults.

Completely agree GLT.

Yesterday's RNS was a little premature or (if being kind) overcautious. This war had only been going for only 5 days before they took a view and issued a profits warning.

WIZZ could have waited with this until a new leader had been elected in Iran and made a decision based on how things are likely to unfold going forward. A forcast based on what is likely to happen over the next few months would have been more helpful IMHO. All they've done is crash the SP by circa 10%.

The specific estimate of 50m was unknown until the RNS. However, the market was well aware of the impact on ME services and the increase in oil prices. A lot of this should have been priced in already.

If the market has priced in more than 50m then this could actually be good news. But, I suspect that the share price will react negatively this morning.

On Wednesday a few minutes after the RNS, Sky ran a story about the potential raise stating that:

"Sky News has learnt that Synthomer, which has seen its stock crash by more than 60% over the last year, is working with bankers at JP Morgan on the prospective cash call.

City sources said a deal was not certain to proceed but that if it did so it could seek to raise more than its entire current market capitalisation of just £90m."

The RNS refers to "media speculation" but does not mention JP Morgan, so Sky got that bit of information from elsewhere.

It would be interesting to know what, if any, internal investigation is being carried out to identify how the media found out that the company had been planning a raise. Market sensitive information has been leaked resulting in tens of millions being wiped off the value of the company yet all they have said about ot is that no decisions have been made. Some heads should also be rolling in due course IMHO because somebody clearly does not understand that market sensitive information has to go through the proper channels.

Next round of trilateral talks scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday next week.

Peace talks ended now according to Sky News.

AbjectPerformer - you should read my post history a bit more carefully before posting such complete b0ll0ck5. It's not all hypothetical and even if some of it was, that was only intended to make those less knowlegable aware of the risks they are facing. There were some on here that didn’t know what the point of getting a certificate in hand was, or what the implications of Russian law 470-FZ were. I make no apology for that.

Russia will reintegrate in the same way that Germany did following WWII. But it will take regime change in Russia and a lot of trust from the West. When Putin goes, do you think his successor will be an open minded guy or gal that the West will have immediate confidence in? Do you think you'll be around for as long as the scars will take to heal? I'm not that confident myself but you might have some reason to think otherwise. I hope you're right and I'm wrong!