Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Corruption and lying maybe be catching up with this government.


No wonder they want closed court rooms.

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I wonder why they didn't print this?



Minister 'must publish NHS risk register to calm down public alarm'
Health ministers have made “general alarm” over the NHS reforms even worse by refusing to publish a register showing how risky the changes might be, a judge has found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9189086/Minister-must-publish-NHS-risk-register-to-calm-down-public-alarm.html

What the hell is that a picture of DC?

Just a yawn.lol

Take out the teeth , the rest is accurate!

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oooops for the eyeties!!! 5/4/2012 - Italy might have to handle more swap terminations, dealers say
Several derivatives trades with Italy's debt office were terminated this year, forcing the country to pay out more than €2.5 billion. Italian politicians said the termination was a one-time issue, but dealers said other counterparties might be able to also terminate trades with Italy. Risk.net http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/news/2166032/italy-swap-terminations

ooops iberia....Spain and Portugal both go to the bond market today, with Spain's borrowing costs expected to jump.
ECB holds interest rates steady | 05/04/2012Portugal sells ?1bn at bond auction | Spain sells ?3.5bn in bonds | Spanish borrowing costs jumped at a bond auction today, as this week's tough budget failed to calm investors' nerves about the country's finances, while Portugal sold €1 billion in 18-month bills.......

Madrid sold €2.6 billion of medium-term paper, at the low end of its target range, and two out of three of the yields rose slightly above analysts' expectations.

"The Spanish Treasury failed to raise the maximum amount and yields, bid to cover ratios are lower than the previous auctions and all in all suggests investors remain very cautious towards Spanish bonds at the moment," said Nick Stamenkovic, rate strategist at RIA Capital Markets.

The average yield on the 2015 bond was 2.890 per cent, up from 2.440 per cent from when it was last sold on March 15, 4.319 per cent on the 2016 bond after 3.376 per cent at the start of March, and 5.338 per cent on the longer-dated bond. It was last sold on September when it had a yield of 5.156 per cent.

European shares extended their losses after the auction and the cost of insuring Spanish and Italian debt against default rose.

The Treasury sold €1.1 billion of a bond maturing in 2015, €973 million of a 2016 bond, and €489 million of a bonds with a 2020 maturity date. The total target range had been €2.5-3.5 billion.

The bid-to-cover ratios were mixed, but still showed firm demand.

Portugal sold €1 billion in 18-month treasury bills today in a successful test of market appetite for the longest-dated debt since it took an international bailout.

The average yield on the new T-bill was 4.537 per cent, compared with 5.993 per cent on the last 18-month bill auctioned in March 2011, before Portugal withdrew from the bond market.

The longest-dated T-bills last issued by Portugal, for 12 months, yielded 3.652 per cent at an auction last month.

The IGCP debt agency also sold 500 million euros in 6-month T-bills at an average yield of 2.90 per cent, sharply down from February's 4.332 per cent.

The total amount of T-bills sold in the auction was at the top of the indicative offer range. Demand outstripped the amount placed by 2.6 times on 18-month bills and 5.0 times on the six-month maturity.

good job we are part of the eu LOL LOL LOL EU = wasters! lets jump out now - cameron wheres your backbone you jellyfish!!

US job report,

US aded 120,000 jobs, unemployment rate fell to 8.2%.

WHile economists had expected the US unemployment rate to stay unchanged at 8.3 percent, and the economy to create some 200,000 jobs.

For goodness sake don't tell Fred about sex - we don't want those genes in the human gene pool any longer.

Should Margaret Thatcher have a state funeral?

As soon as possible, please.

But, in a period of austerity, a fitting memorial would be the tory party paying for it.

Hope you go first ,you twisted and bitter left wing Welsh prixk!

Margaret Thatcher buried Labour until the only way they could gain power again was to turn themselves into a poor imitation of the Tory party to fool the voters.

lol,sorry.

Ald.

I see you believe in witches!



Do you believe in fairies too.

I gave a smile today for CC comment, certainly not a yawn. lol

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What about his followers?
Good to hear that the court prevented the Human Right to be misused more....