Every where you look the news is full of doom and gloom about currencies and the markets, and rightly so. But, and it's a big but, some companies will ride out the storm, offer reasonable dividends and offer a buying opportunity. Obviously the 'cranks' will say their small cap tiddler is worthy of a huge upgrade in share price but maybe a flight to quality is where we should be ( I can't believe I am saying this!). Maybe the collapse in share prices might be an opportunity for some quite juicy M&A activity.

So here is my list of a few stocks I am watching for buying opportunities and why:

Misys; M&A activity bidder Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) walked away last week and shares came in for big sell off. Unlikely FIS will bid again just yet but if price continues to collapse might return.

SportingBet: M&A activity bidder Ladbrokes? Still rumoured out there with 70p bid. Perennial bid favourite but might be one to get dirt cheap.

Lloyds. Madness, yes I know, but below 28p I might just put some away for a rainy day, a pure punt.


Anyone else got some stocks to watch?

Is that the Eastender's theme music I can hear?

I picked up a shares this morning for the long term and they are all in profit already. But as I purchased them for the divi, I mustn't get tempted just yet.....

Small producing Gold company's , with Gold at record level's and now fuel cost's coming down

Sound logic, aldwickk. I've had gold ETFs for a number of years and have recently become confused as to why the companies haven't remotely followed the price of the commodity.

Well I eventually snook out from behind the sofa and bought some stares. Half what I am willing to put into the market for the present in case we head off south again.

Gulp

I will now try to ignore the Markets and pop over to see the Doctor for some pills.

Look at the intraday range trading today and which is typical of lots of the main stocks:

AAL , BARC , BT.A

I've been away studying for a few days. Has anything happened?

Bloody students!

Nah. Just a bit of footy cancelled.

:-)

Shame, found a nice new telly in the shops last night! Me and me mates showed the police and the rich that we can do what we want.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424

Robbing another one of those rich geezers

All the usual suspects/rabble/jocks turning up on this thread!

Ive added MML to med risk and POL to high risk stuff.

Won't touch banks due to Eurozone exposure, there will be a great opportunity at some time for a long term investment, but maybe not yet...

Regards,
Gausie.

What the ****!

Last time I peeped at the US it was all negative again and I was doing the usual " I am in for the long term" and "5 years from now this will prove to be a good buying opportunity" you know all the usual self justification stuff but look at that close.


Must be the fabled plunge protection team buying futures :)

What ever. I haven't a clue what's going on.

Gordon Bennett, they've all turned up! :-)

This time next year rodders :-)

Blimey I thought you lot must have all died. Good to see you all.

PS I did buy a few RDSB just below 1800, on Monday I was looking to buy just below 1900 glad I didnt buy then, what a difference 24 hours makes !!! These are mostly for my SIPP so I can still pretend they are long term just like Martini.

I find this all very confusing. I have a gold hedge which has so far insulted me from the worst of the stares drop. Today the spot price hit a peak of $1775 an ounce and when the US rally came it shed $53 to $1722. All very reasonable.

However it has since recovered to $1755 against a fairly flat US futures outlook.

Does not feel right but as I type there was a piece on Bloomberg about Chinese (and I assume Asia in general) punters buying gold which I suppose could explain some of it.

Rising gold and stare prices would be a perfect outcome but life isn't like that so I will keep space behind the sofa available

I have shooting buddy who is head of a precious metals desk in the City. He told me recently that that a bit of gold in my portfolio these days was unlikely to go wrong. He's been flogging a lot of it in the ME.

I have some exposure to gold via GBS and also a small amount of gold bullion, its been pretty handy since I bought it in 2007 and 2008.

However gold bullion seems to be a bit of a pain to sell, I am thinking of selling mine at the moment and looked into selling it.

It is nice to get the gold out every now and hold it because it really does seem to have some intrnsic value unlike my stocks which live entirely in the virtual world.