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Morning all. I'm back off holiday today so looking forward to the markets going up continually this week. Rofl.

Good morning! You might have your wish come true cc! Or not!😃

Morning all, About as much chance of the markets going up as Carduff City staying in the Premier league this season... isn’t that right Dil? 🤣

CC any chance of getting the flag counter up?

Hi Stan,

I'm not sure about the flag counter. The script which Skinny sent me doesn't include the flag counter part. I'm assuming I can't just copy last weeks script as Skinny would have to set this up every week with a new flag counter and this has to be registered on their website

I think we will have to live without it this week. I'll have a think about next weeks.

With an hour and a half to go it doesn't look like markets are going to go up continually this week.

Pity

Not to worry CC I just want to flush this Malvinas person out 😀

A good start to the day and then Buttercups.

Could somebody help out Trump!

I may contribute to flowers.

Good morning!

Good morning all

Morning all.

Services PMI 54.3 vs 53.9.

Market didn't react at all to the news in the first hour.

It looks from my L2 windows like the market wants to go up but is running into too many sellers

What's driving this cable move?

The pound has spiked after Bloomberg reported that the UK and Germany have abandoned key Brexit demands.

Quoting people familiar with the matter, it said Germany was ready to accept a less-detailed agreement on future ties in a bid to get a deal done.

The UK is also willing to accept a more vague statement of intent on the future relationship, it reported.

The pound is now up almost 1% against the dollar at $1.2971.

Good morning!

Morning all

Morning all.

I am beginning to feel that the UK related Brexit stocks are starting to get a few buyers.

As if the buyers aren't in any hurry and want to buy as cheap as possible. Slowly slowly the share prices are inching up. Not enough to call it a trend but enough to make me think the downtrend from Christmas may have now changed.

Fingers crossed

um..
Post 19 doesn't look so clever now

Morning all

Morning all.

Good morning!

I wish it was.

arrghhh.

My day not so bad as MARS is going up (although that is starting to give way now) and my bigger holdings are steady apart from RBS.

I can't believe I just closed my RBS intraday long at 242.5. for 0.7 pts. less my trading costs gives me not very much

It's scary out there. I don't like this sort of selling on Friday. It tends to carry on into the close on average.

Even Barnier's comments haven't helped the Brexit stocks except for a 20 minute interlude as the buyers temporarily beat off the sellers. The sellers seem to be still going.

I dunno. LLOY in particular looks stupid. What's LLOY which is basically now a domestic bank got to do with contagion from Turkey and Argentina?

It sure is interesting though. I can't help but feel there is some good money to be made here. I've put the hedge-cutter away and will watch with interest for the rest of today

Earlier this week I was surprised that being overweight in Construction, House building, and Banks that I was on the week up. That has changed.

I hold AZN and AHT which have served me well, but not happy trying to make sense of the charts.

I think charting in torrid waters is like canoeing rocky waters.

At moment, I don't know which part of my body is uncrossed.

Just started a new compost heap. Might get in it.

If it's any help Fred I think you will be ok in the long run.

Your three main sectors will all be fine as the demand exists and the economy is growing. Profits in these companies are growing, dividends are growing or stable.

I expect they will all rise as we head towards Christmas.

Agreed, I live in hope!

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IBS.

Maybe worth a look.

I hold some and bought some more at 243p.

SP dropped back on "poor" results. (? winter)

The results are not bad.

Div slightly up.

Projections are good and you can't build houses without bricks.

The SP dropped on declaration day and followed by some buys by Vulcan and some "directors" on the same day.

DYOH.

Worth a thought.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/09/ten-years-after-2008-crisis-another-financial-crash