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How to: Blame Starmer? No worries, JJ, the media will find a way! Maybe because he hasn't done the trade deal with the US. He should have wrapped that up with friend Biden before Christmas.

Enough of the pats on the back, mate. Many of us have other things to do besides treat your posts as Gospel and send you gifts afterwards. If you are indeed so canny, give Warren Buffet a call. He can always use another savant.

Seriously it is so tiring here you update on every 10p you make with some brilliant exploitation of JD's swings..

Thanks for posting, Mary, although it seems no amount of positive press helps in the slightest.

"A strong global footprint", indeed, pushing us downwards. Dismaying.

One day it must turn - and perhaps very strongly - but when? Maybe not the near future,

no matter how much deserved. Indeed, on the contrary, today's fall suggests the bottom may be much lower.

God, I hope not. I don't have much powder left.

Thanks, Mike, my investment has been whittled down over the months so it is not a huge amount of money but even now I am only looking at extracting 10% immediately - that is, by the end of next week, when I need it to feed a wolf at the door. I haven't bailed yet, unlike some who missed the rise on Friday, which has me dreaming again. Roll on next week. Maybe the poor people in Gaza will get some respite - and me too!!!

Good to hear your voice again, Mike, and thanks for the views. Sorry you are not more ebullient but, hey, one has to call it as one sees it. It would all be a fun theoretical exercise if I didn't need some of my TUI cash soon. I can't wait more months before taking out at least a little something, and defo no chance of buying more. Sad. Because TUi was previously such a good share for me to own - and trade a little. Guess I will go back to praying for peace in Gaza - for its sake not mine. I will just be a side benefit.

Exactly, MaryB - suddenly down near 10% despite results excelling - and even Euros 6 was hardly hitting the heights - that would still be well down on what the company is apparently worth. Was worth just weeks ago. You have to wonder.

Which comes first? Tui results or Iran retaliation? It will be a close run thing.

If Iran beats the gun so to speak, then for us it will be Brace, Brace, Brace as they say in the aviation trade.

How low can we go? Already 30% down on a figure which was already some 20% down or something.

Damn it has been grim - meanwhile IAG my alternate choice has been relatively stable the last 5 months. Hindsight!

Yo c2645sg & Mike, sorry to be so long following up on this last comment. I've been meaning to address it but I have been on the road. Obviously the post is excessively nasty- useless is not a word encouraged on this board - not to mention incorrect - Mike has definitely not made "wrong call after wrong call". At the very least he has often provided some sage overviews and "calls" that were far from wild, just maybe undone by world events. Can't call anyone "useless" for that. We are living in extremely unpredictably times. At least the global situation seems likely less dire as we creep towards results day. Let's hope for all our sakes that Mike"s call is right this time. It might well be. Obviously the world is still spinning. Just look at the Olympics. Travel is still viable - indeed, except for the UK rioters giving us all the slums, I hardly know anyone who isn't on holiday.

Avocet123, like you I was encouraged by the signs of a bounce back - I even expected one (O certainly wasn't selling in anticipation of things getting a lot worse quickly - panicking, as you might put it). But of course once again TUI wound up going no where and we are now a week out only from Results. Panic? No but despair is looming. Bit like WW3 & the recession. Hope I can look back one day and say Oh, how silly I was to worry!!!!

Seems clear TUI's results will be released under the shadow of World War 3 - not to forget fears of a recession in the US. So once again all bets are off. Seems TUI is never able to release good news in a possible climate. I need some cash now but what a time to sell!

Thanks, Losalot - the bonds may well explain the huge drop yesterday but as so often with TUI no one really knows.

Mary & MIke and all LTHs, here we go with yet another date in the calendar after which we are almost guaranteed to be bounding upwards to the sunny mountaintops, perhaps even double digits. I think this is at least the 6th time I have marked a date - always agreeing with all the previous good reasons for TUI bound to reach a fair price - post the rights issue, the move to Germany, one or another results and so on. In some cases there has been a brief improvement but basically nothing has gone as predicted for months. Not a complaint about the forecasts which, as I say, I totally agreed with. But damn the follow-up has been disappointing. Here's hoping for 7th time lucky. But, alas, yet again a month to wait twiddling thumbs.

Good to get your thoughts again, Mike. Clearly you are disappointed as I am at the lack of excitement given the June 24th deadline for moving etc. How many times have we been disappointed like this in the last 6 months or the years. Feels like a dozen. Had to have been at least 3 or 4 times. And now we have a new date thanks to MaryB & others - just another week. Well, we will see.

Certainly it has been nothing short of an unmitigated disaster since the rights sale more or less. Two maybe three times we got to a promising price and if has carried on all would have been well, but each time it has plummeted. Not back to £4.00 area where we were once but down 10% or more and then lingering. Oh, well, catch you next week to see if finally reap some German benefit.

And finally, I see that my Euro shares are showing up 2.1% whereas Market Watch is showing Pound shares up only 1.4%. As you say, a strange day.

Sorry to go back a step. Yes, I see what you mean that Market Watch is showing it at £6.03 - hope they are not working in currency exchange costs or other costs if you were to sell TUI shares and convert your Euro to Pounds- that would be huge 15%. Hope we haven't been suckered.

Mike, can't say as I know more than zero about arbitrage but my TUI on II is now shown in Euros - closed last night at E7.19 so as you say, that converts to £6.11 @ 85% arbitrage. So I don't see TUi jumping up there this morning, except as a correction.

Thanks for taking the time to share some thoughts, Mike. Re the Delisting, I was someone who viewed it, like you, as a good thing and automatically thought it might be fairly straightforward. Now I am wishing I had bailed simply because the transition is proving to involve too many unpredictable variables. So yet again we are stuck waiting waiting waiting some weeks for hopefully good news. Draining. Roll on June 24th.

Another tough day when 19 out the 20 stocks I track are up - Trainline and JD Fashion well up, for instance.

No cigars for guessing which is the ONLY ONE to finish down. Happens too often. Crippling.

Goodness M & M, those sweet forecasts have turned a little bitter. Now here we are back where we started a week ago, as if the results had never come out. Some good analysis of why we are there, including your latest Mike. All makes sense. Still still hard to accept that we have been at £6.25 plus on no news, yet get mired at £5.75 when things are buoyant. But the markets are the markets. Logic doesn't have much to do with it. Like EZJ - or RR not long ago - one CEO steps down and markets assume the business will crash, even though many a time a new CEO brings boom times. Whatever, for now we are stuck. As you have said Mike, the institutions have not jumped ship so there should be some clear sailing ahead, but not for at least another month. Time to buckle up for turbulence until then maybe.

Peeps, please ignore or just filter Savage. These back and forth are wasting too much space. Ignore him and he will go away. He has enough other boards to mess with.