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Ex-Div Date is 23rd April
Pay day 2nd June
A dividend is not a capital gain-it is treated as taxable income and the two attract different taxation regimes vis a vis tax free allowances.
As it will be received by you on 2nd June 2020 it follows it would be included in your 2020/21 Tax Return.

Forgot to add to my supermarket comments.
SWMBO was not at all impressed by me buying tinned kippers, KitKats and Penguin Bars
to sustain us during our enforced lockdown.
You can see why she doesn't take me shopping

This is getting ridiculous. Current SP represents a 40% discount to NAV as at 31 12 19 despite the fact that £1billion of that NAV was in cash.
Granted the asset valuations will have taken a knock in the last few weeks but 40%?????
Not a great figures man so perhaps I am barking up the wrong tree and the Gurus on this BB will correct me.

Incidentally, made a rare visit to a Supermarket with SWMBO this morning- no names, no pack drill, but its name rhymes with fresco. The shelves were stripped bare due to the GBP's utter greed and stupidity-says it all about our society today-grab, grab, grab and to hell with everybody else.
Dunkirk Spirit?? Do me a favour

"About time they dropped the prices at the pumps"
Ho ho ho!

"There are around 2,000 confirmed infections in the UK. The actual number though is estimated to be much higher, between 35,000 and 50,000."
Well done BBC!!!! Just the sort of news designed to create more panic.
Estimated by whom pray- the office cat or the "experts" at the Beeb.

Oh and I forgot to say thanks to GBern for cheering us all up this morning. Just what we needed.
As for using cash, rarely do nowadays in fact can't recall the last time I went to an ATM

Thank Heavens the Government big mouths haven't mentioned petrol shortages otherwise mayhem would ensue despite the fact that the number of journeys by vehicle seem to be reducing drastically.

Ho ho ho!!
They couldn't care less despite their protestations to the contrary.
For some reason they are determined to rake up some muck on Petrofac however long it takes.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/China-says-Japan-developed-drug-Avigan-works-against-coronavirus

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/China-says-Japan-developed-drug-Avigan-works-against-coronavirus

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/China-says-Japan-developed-drug-Avigan-works-against-coronavirus

Alto 1 usually comes up with the details. They were in Court No. 5 yesterday-won't know about today until 10.00

"I think everyone has keen eyes on the bottom of BP and Shell, ...."
I can think of better bottoms to have a keen eye on and they ain't in the FTSE100!!
(If we have any lady investors who feel slighted by the comment my apols. I was just trying to lighten the day a little)

Even making an announcement about liquidity seems to have made the Market Muckers nervous.
SP now at a 10 year low yielding 12.8%
Bizarre in the extreme

Even making an announcement about liquidity seems to have made the Market Muckers nervous.
Bizarre.

"It will all continue to cycle down until light at the end of the tunnel can be seen"
Just hope that light is not a train coming in the opposite direction.

The one good spin-off of this whole sorry mess is the significant downturn in harmful emissions from vehicles and aircraft. The downturn in the former is hard to measure, apart from noticing that the roads in my locality are noticeably quieter, but for the latter at present there are about 7,500 in the air compared with the usual 10/11,000 (in very round figures) which would normally start rising rapidly as the holiday seasons approach.
In addition any closure of industrial plant eg the European car industry, will add to the "bonus" if that is how it could be considered.
A prime example of all the above is the pics of a Chinese city on a normal day, shrouded in pollution and, under shutdown, almost completely clear.
A savage demonstration, if one was needed, of how we are poisoning the Planet but with equally savage economic consequences- a no win situation it seems.

Dunno. Take today for example.
Opened at 183: bottomed at 150 then recovered 17% to 175 for a net loss of around 5% compared with the 250's 9%
As Marcus says, who knows??

"Aviva dosent have huge cash mountains, they have only just over 1x divi payout"
If you are referring to the Final of 21.49 due on 2nd June that's = to £839 million, if my maths is correct.
Are you saying that is all they have in cash 'cos if so all the talk on this BB over the last few weeks about them being disgustingly cash rich seems to have been misplaced.
Perhaps I am missing something in the small print??

Brave man Lilo!!
GL