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Lot of Green filtered messages on my board since I blocked Savage. He's posting a lot. I presume he is saying he is bullish on TUI. Praising it to the hilt. His useful positive thinking. Or is maybe dissing it?

Hey M&M (Mary & Mike), Thanks for the forecasts. Sweet. Hope they materialise and melt in my pocket not in thin air, might be the saying. |

Not long to wait to see the proof in the pudding.

Thanks, Mike, re the Ryanair tip. I hadn't seen that. But yes this 1.30 pm / 2.30 pm affected only my 3 travel stocks - IAG EJZJ & TUI - not the usual 20 I track, which often all drop at the same moment midday for whatever reason, very possibly the US market opening. Still a pity that someone scuppered TUI on a good day for the market generally. One thing we know that the fall had nothing to do with Savage's repetitive posting - or his boastings. U r spot on to say he should try to get a better idea of what is appropriate to post on here. Better get that filter going. You won't miss anything.

Here we go again, Mike. I have filtered Savage so I don't have to read his moronic posts anymore.

But once again that really remarkable sudden collapse vaguely linked to the US opening. Or was it something else today?I haven't had time to check. Just seems too predictable and inexplicable - or at least unjustifiable.

I think you missed it, Strap. You have to move fast these days.

You should have jumped as soon as Robert Gleed gave us the warning about his plans.

But no worries. I think he is about to announce a deal of discount vouchers for Pizza Hut. Money saved is money earned. Stay strong.

Thanks, Mike, for that extremely well thought out reply. I totally agree with you comments on the US market and its impact on us & TUI - time and again I have seen, as you have, that it opens poorly and we slump, then we close and it trends up. What confused / confuses me is that these last two slumps happened an hour more more BEFORE the US markets open. Perhaps there is some pre-opening activity that triggers it. But usually a bad US opening can be predicted from Futures so why does London - dozens of different shares (Kingfisher, Pets at Home, TUI etc - all panic within minutes of each other? And then, usually, recover, at least a little bit. I always think it must be a rate announcement or a report on jobs or home sales or something. At least, as you suggest, today is likely to open up. Fingers crossed.

For the second day in a row, every share I track has had a good morning then tanked post 1 pm - yesterday close to 1.30 pm, today 1.15 pm. Some announcement / figures somewhere seems to kill the day. Any hints please?

SK, Best wishes in your new house. Maybe you can get busy with some DIY and spare us your repetitive, negative prognostications. We get it already. You love this stock and you have made a fortune from it but you think it is going to tank and it makes you feel good to warn everybody. Enough. I have your profound thoughts plastered on my wall so they are easy too consult. Anymore, you just distract board members from things they might benefit from. Thanks.

What the hell would Nets want to wait until the end of Passover for?

Oh, right, he doesn't want to start WW3 during Passover - just a few days after.

You have to love religion and its logic.

So it seems today is the day the "consultation" period closes. I mistakenly thought there were meant to be some results / conclusions today. Oh, so wrong again. No telling when those results will come out, I presume. Probably not for weeks, maybe months.

Thanks for posting the Proactive Investors report, DJ.

Sounds sound. Fingers crossed.

But this is why yesterday happened! What is to come? Hmmm?

Today 09:21

UK's CMA steps up probe into UK veterinary sector

(Alliance News) - The UK's competition watchdog on Tuesday launched a formal investigation into the veterinary sector warning pet owners may be overpaying for medicines and prescriptions.

A reminder: The latest H1 I can find:

Pets at Home announced its FY24 Interim Results for the 28-week period to 12 October 2023.

H1 was the period of highest execution risk in building our Petcare Platform as we relaunched our brand, transitioned our stores to the new Stafford Distribution Centre (DC) and continued to build a new digital platform.

H1 consumer revenue# grew 8.6%, ahead of our 7% ambition, to £1.0bn, with all channels in growth and further progress in retaining and acquiring new customers. Underlying consumer demand was resilient with structural trends underpinning sustained market growth.

Stille, you are obviously a very generous guy - all posts welcome. Except if everyone who made £1K posted their triump, there would be no space left for triumph.

Besides, Robert was so thrilled to get out at £5.52 - you have to wonder how he would feel if he had hung on for a few more hours and cashed out at £5.90 - he could have afforded at least 2 holidays.

Point is, markets are swings and roundabout - celebrating your tiny right guess while other are nursing wounds is no help. So instead of welcoming all posts, why not welcome posts that contribute to the wellbeing of all?

Oops, I see MS actually did upgrade IAG as well - to 2.50 EUR - so maybe it is doing much of the heavy lifting after all.

Yes, initially it looked like the MS upgrade might have accounted for the big boost this morning. But IAG is up almost as much without an upgrade - and the whole market is up - so you would have to think this is budget driven.

That said, TUI is still only back to where it was 3 days ago - when many of us had £5.75 and higher in our sights.

Maybe the MS words will kick in later and get us there.

The details:

NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) - The US investment bank Morgan Stanley has upgraded Tui from "Equal-weight" to "Overweight" and raised its target price from 9 to 10 euros. Analyst Jamie Rollo sees significantly more potential than risks in Europe's currently worst-performing tourism share, according to a study published on Wednesday. The increase in earnings targeted by the Group for 2024 appears conservative and the balance sheet problems have largely been solved, he said./ag/gl

Thanks, Legs, I got that. Sounds seamless. Seems it is a simple choice between choosing to transfer before the deadline or leaving as is until the deadline . Apparently the transfer would take maybe a week no what date you choose during which trading would be impossible. Costs and Other things - like what I don't know - will have to be clarified.

Interactive investor have an in-house Corp notice indicating the option to transfer Tui shares earlier to the Frankfurt exchange. No mention of any cost implications only that they will be converted to Euros. No fx rates indicated.

Sorry, SKR, as so often with my messages, there is a lack of clarity. I was not disputing your take on the PSNB figures - only your certainty that if they were good or bad it would effect this market this way or that. That's why your opinion worried me - even though at that point we neither knew whether the figures would be good or bad - which is even debatable now, as you point out by further arguments against them as good. It was your certainty that troubled me and Mike's admission that things were not so certain that I agreed with. Hope I haven't confused things further. Best.

Mike SO, I enjoyed your rely to Savage, who had got me worried with his concerns about the forthcoming announcement on PSNB.

I particularly like this line, which struck home: Sad but true!

Let's be honest, the stock market and fundamentals have been dislocated for a long time now and as such, ONLY what MM's and ii's decide to do, affects the stock markets around the world - end of! If THEY want to cash in, we lose; if they buy, we win.