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Good morning

Morning all.

Inflation up to 2.7%. Banks rising on the back of NIM but not much. BOE going to be forced to bring forward rate rises.

UK inflation up to 6 month high at 2/7 %. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45572856https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45572856

Opps CC beat me to it.

No worries Stan. I was hoping it was enough to push my LLOY back to 60 but not so far.

RBS is doing much better. It's going to make 255 soon, showing much more strength than LLOY these last couple of days. Not sure why, but don't care. As long as they are both going up that will do me.

If you are holding banks, maybe of interest:

"Broker Forecast - Deutsche Bank issues a broker note on Barclays PLC
BFN
Deutsche Bank today reaffirms its buy investment rating on Barclays PLC (LON:BARC) and raised its price target to 240p (from 239p).

Story provided by StockMarketWire.com

Broker Forecasts data provided by www.sharesmagazine.co.uk"


Done B.all for the price.

Somebody must have heard!

Good. About time we were listened to.

Banks really strong today. This afternoon could be very interesting.

Seems to me May's words on Irish border slowed down the rise on the banks but now the buyers have come back

The problem I have at the moment is when I smile usually it is followed by a grimace.

I have to break up some heavy holdings such as AHT, TW., RDW, GLEN into smaller amounts and already hold too many Builders and enough Banks.

Where "goest" the market and for how long?

Dow going crazy. Hope we follow

Strange day. I can read the trade flow but I can't understand it.

There seem to be inconsistent movements all over the place suggesting to me porfolios are being re-positioned.

Most of my stocks up today and took a little intraday.

Good morning.

The Papers

Good morning

Good morning!

Good morning.

Watching Kier. Opened limit up over 5% and now is down 2.4%.

18% of the stock has been lent out for shorting. Results looked good to me.

oh and RBS heading for 260 and LLOY for 61. Strange how fast things change.

Hmmmm - Britain is 85-90 percent of the way to agreeing Brexit deal - UK minister

Markets seem to be agreeing Skinny. The buying on RBS and LLOY looks like traders in a hurry rather than what we've had for the last 3 months is that buyers have had plenty of time to think.

On another topic. Kier the place to be today. Opened at 1100, dropped to 1000, now back at 1100. Think those shorts are going to have trouble closing. Rest of sector doesn't seem that bothered

Somebody put the coffee on.

I wish I could have a portfolio where the choice of movement for more than a day is up.

It seems other than banks what went up yesterday is meandering down to-day.

Perhaps TM is listening to:

"I have overheard their plans
There will be no attack tonight
They intend to starve us out
Before they start a proper fight
Concentrate their force
Hit us from the right."

GBP Retail Sales m/m 0.3% -0.2% 0.7%

UK shoppers keep on spending as August retail sales smash forecasts