This thread is designed for punters to tip any share or shares they like from Blue Chips to Penny Stocks.
YOU CAN RAMP AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE or you can be a constructive market analyst, please yourself.
Drivers Tip, Buy Low Sell High

Pension Calculator
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Cash Converter.
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The World Clock
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Calendar for year 2008/9/10 (United Kingdom) Printable.
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Companies House
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HM Revenue & Customs
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Takeover Panel Website All The Rules
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United States Patent And Trademark Office.
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The UK Patent Office.
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Market Makers Methods of Stock Manipulation
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The Markets
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CAPITAL GAINS TAX B/Board
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Stocks Advise LOL
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Falling Sand Game
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Retail Prices Index
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Tax on the sale of shares
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This thread is closed at the moment due to the lack of interest and me keep crying over my portfolio.

But it reopens tommorow as either a renewed thread cos of all the bargains or a pawn brokers for Drivers shirt.

Youd have the shirt of me bed.

new tip-head for the bunkers!!

Achtung!! Ve haff occupied ze bunkers !!!!!!!

i've been watching this for a few months now. i did consider buying in march but i thought the chart looked a bit toppy. very glad i didn't!!! the big fall was because of an rns saying profits wouldn't be as much as expected but the rns also said it would be a record year for profits. i know the phrase about falling knives and all that , but, surely the drop has been overdone? opinions please.

Bos
I think you are properly right the drop looks well over done and that the sp will pick up heading towards the results and when they are announced on 11 July 2006, IMO
This looks like the reason for the drop from the interims last time
52% year on year sales growth was expected to continue

Even with the profit warning they are still saying.

Year-on-year sales growth is expected to be in the region of 34 per cent, with
like-for-like organic growth around 8 per cent. Year-on-year growth in profit
before tax is nevertheless expected to be not less than 25 per cent and growth
in earnings per share not less than 9 per cent.


And are also exploring opportunities to increase the future earnings potential,
including the possibility of expanding the manufacturing capability in Poland.
The Directors also continue to identify a number of attractive acquisition
opportunities and intend to continue the successful consolidation strategy
achieved to date.

The problem is in this game, as you know nothing is certain my CCT is at 61p when all the punters including me are saying its well under price and should be around the 150p level, so who knows.

NUT

Keep an eye on this there is talk of agreeing a large acquisition that would boost the companys range.

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Soul* ..... I am still chary of buying MOG nowithstanding that it is intrinsically a good or at least sound company .... The lack of liquidity leading to unreasonable volatility etc is a big worry.

As for VOG, my own view is that this is one of the shares that should be bought NOW as it has been hammered (imo) solely due to enforced liquidations elsewhere.

As for Monday, I would certainly expect FTSE to move ahead for DOW finished marginally up on a day of option expiries.

cynic
All the oils are down take a look at one of mine DNX down 195p in a week.

True, though DNX are still relatively heavyweight - i.e. down about 20% ..... VOG are down from an intraday high of 260 to 200, so prob much the same in % terms.

Cynic, the only thing I'm tipping at present is watching and waiting!

I timed things rather badly on MOG - small consolation is that the stuff I sold in order to buy it has also gone into full reverse so maybe I can buy some of those stocks back with what cash I've managed to liberate. You're right about liquidity, I suspect, however in some circumstances could this not be favourable?

Very slightly disappointed at everyone baling out of VOG - I thought people would keep their eyes on the potential this one has. Heck, if it's still sub-200p in four weeks, when I can buy it back again according to banking employees' compliance regs, then I may just top up at the cheaper price. Ditto NOP.

NUT
Up 7% see post 188

Global markets have continued to feel pressure amid concerns about higher interest rates and slower world growth.
Stock markets fell across Europe and Asia, and trading in India was briefly suspended after its key index lost 10%.

In the US the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 indexes all opened the day down, taking up from where they left off last week.

Commodities also felt the squeeze, with the cost of crude oil down in London and New York, and metals prices dropping on fears of a price bubble.

Analysts said it was difficult to tell when the declines, triggered by a slump in the US dollar last week, will end.

Linus Yip, a strategist at First Shanghai Securities, said that any bad news would reinforce the downward cycle.

"We have to be cautious," he explained.

Christopher Bellew of Bache Financial in London said that Monday's slide was "a continuation of the bubble-bursting in commodities and energy markets last week."

Broad sell-off

All the major European markets were behind on Monday morning, with Germany's Dax index down 1.2% and France's Cac down 1.3%.

Weaker metals prices pushed London's FTSE 100 index 0.9% lower as mining firm Antofagasta shed 6.2%.

In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed 1.8% lower at 15,857.87, ending the session below 16,000 for the first time in two months.

The index's biggest fallers included oil group Inpex Holdings, down 5.3%, and Japan Energy owner Nippon Mining, falling 8%.

In India, the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark 30-share Sensex index was trading 436.27 points, or 4%, lower at 10,398.05 after trading was suspended for an hour.

Earlier it had lost more 1,000 points, its biggest intra-day drop, amid heavy selling by domestic and foreign funds.

The US's Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.4% to 11,102.91, and the Nasdaq lost 0.7% to 2,178.45.

Crude oil prices slipped by about $1 on Monday, amid worries that slower economic growth would limit demand.

In London, Brent crude lost 88 cents to $67.80 a barrel, while New York light sweet crude fell 84 cents to $67.69.

Commodities fared little better, with Shanghai aluminium futures down 4%, the most they can fall in a single day.

Other commodities sectors also suffered with gold, copper and zinc prices all falling.

Where they gone.

ALLIANCE & LEIC is back in play don't forget the board want 15

I have added a few more links in the header for your research.

Takeover Panel Website All The Rules

United States Patent And Trademark Office.

The UK Patent Office.

A&L - but don't forget that the French have not even tabled a bid yet and may not and even if they do, may walk away

The French! Walk away from a scrap?? Give in without trying?
Unthinkable.

Alan, shame on you! So much for the Entente Cordiale (does that mean drinking Robinsons Barley Water in a tent or something?)

I scrounged a few pennies to buy more RGT yesterday on the news that one of their drugs can reverse brain damage - I think I need some after the last week - what happens to the sp today?, down it goes!
kim