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@shatnersbassoon1 - something like that, or worse, seems likely. The only other thing Trump is really interested in, apart from himself and women's bodies, is real estate. Wonder if he's done a deal - Putin gets Ukraine, Trump gets Greenland.

Trump must somehow be heavily compromised by Putin.

Judging by Trump's attack on Zelensky a few minutes ago, I'd say we've got bigger problems than FXPO's share price to worry about right now. The utter cretin has basically fully aligned himself with Putin.

@Johnsilk. I'm not at all shocked, and the only people who should be are those who unwisely ever placed any credence in a word he says. I dispute that his tactics "normally work"; certainly won't work in the middle east, and will only work in Ukraine in terms (possibly) of advancing US corporate interests, which is not the same as those of peace or FXPO investors. Fortunately, it's only a matter of time before his staff get sick of having to "walk back" his idiotic, misguided and deeply damaging statements.

Phew, SavageKeyboard has appeared. The selling pressure must be easing and the fall is about to reverse...

Yep, the President of the USA has become a mouthpiece for Putin's propaganda. This is hopefully where support for him in the Republican party starts to drop away.

Extremely disappointing, but not so surprising that this is selling off now. Talk is of Trump having basically "switched sides" - though was he ever actually against Putin? Seems to idolise him, certainly empathises with his self-serving oligarchical corruption and lawlessness.

The fact that Kellogg is parroting the deeply offensive Trump nonsense about who is responsible for the war is far more important than the fact he arrived a day earlier.

@Xhita - yes, that's probably a more accurate description than what I said.

@Xhita - yes, but bad outlook and Jet2 SP down 10% this morning.

Yes, the Trump crowd find it impossible to understand decent peoples' strong reaction to them other than as some form of derangement. Short step from there to locking up political opponents 'for their own safety'.

@Maestroman - Jet2 profit warnings.

But EZJ apparently being brought down by bad results from another airline (Jet2 on this occasion) , once again...

@Xhita - yes, exactly. Am beginning to think, for the first time, maybe worth shifting some assets into gold.

@OSG - what else do you think now determines the future of FXPO other than "politics"??

The Riyadh talks being described as 'bilateral trade talks between the US and Russia'. Sounds about right. Btw, Trump also quietly suspended the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, thus making it legal for US companies to bribe foreign officials, citing specifically the minerals sector as needing US corruption.

Ex-div date's Thursday, right? Kind of looks to me like the divi got taken off the SP the last couple of days already... But I'm not understanding the market at the moment, weird movements going on in most stocks I own, and not just the UK.

Well that's the 'Peace in our time/one day' Trump vanity bubble burst. Now let's get some adults in the room and start talking the serious talk.

Because of the zero outcome from the Riyadh meeting - apart from the obvious attempts by Putin to make life a bit easier for Russia.

Well that'll be Trump's attention span and interest exhausted. Back to reality...