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Good Morning.

The Papers

Morning all. Day out shopping with wife yesterday. (Groans)

Markets looking good again today for me on the banks. LLOY over 55. Hurrah.

Morning all.

FTSE 100 up on China stimulus hopes, mid-caps slip ahead of Brexit vote

USD PPI m/m -0.2% -0.1% 0.1%

USD Core PPI m/m -0.1% 0.2% 0.3%

USD Empire State Manufacturing Index 3.9 11.6 10.9

Good morning!

Good Morning.

The Papers

Muted open seen for FTSE 100 after May's Brexit deal crush

Good morning

Morning all.

EU ready to discuss new Brexit deal if UK changes "red lines"

No-deal Brexit risks creating London-Dover traffic jam - freight company DSV

Inflation falls to lowest level in nearly two years

German 30-y Bond Auction 0.85|1.1 1.04|1.2

CC.

Builders are flying.

You must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Will it last?

19/28 Blue.

A few more weeks like this and I would be happy!

Morning.

FTSE 100 Sliding back down again!!!!

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The Papers

Morning all.

Morning all,

Things are going well Fred. I'm up 7.5% so far this year and it feels very strange. Like it's too easy. I believe strongly in running winners but sometimes that makes me complacent. I need to watch out for that.

I guess I've been lucky (or perhaps skill-full) so far this month. My biggest holding (CTO) is up 6% and my second biggest holding (NMD) is up 22%. Everything else is up too from some low lows at the end of December.

There seems to be appetite from the big guys to buy the dips with decent volume. I haven't seen that for 9 months so I'm interpreting this as something has fundamentally changed in their outlook.


As for whether it continues I am very optimistic because more than anything the employment data is good. In addition the gap between wage rises and price inflation is now sizeable enough to make a difference. The money has to go somewhere, either consumers spend it (great for business), consumers save it (that surely wouldn't do any harm given level of personal debt in the UK) or tax (helping the national deficit)