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.

if so, she's must have been reading david mellor's or antonia da sancha's biography

Don't forget a certain Fergie!

I think he's giving his feet a rest, you try walking in THOSE shoes.
Is Alice a responsible drinker?
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cynic
What did beloved get for his present?

Set of ear plugs :O)

Beloved = wife you muppet!
very very nice pressie, and why not indeed

Stocks are about to plunge, Wells Fargo warns

Gina Martin Adams is sticking to her guns.

The Wells Fargo strategist has been bearish on stocks all year, even as she watched the S&P 500 (^GSPC) add 21 percent. And on Thursday's " Futures Now ," Adams reiterated her call that the index would close out the year at 1,440.

"Our target is based on fundamentals," Adams insisted. "We're basing our target on typical valuation measures, given the level of interest rates and also on earnings forecasts. And that's why our target is relatively low."

In fact, "low" is somewhat of an understatement. Adams' target implies that the market will drop 16 percent in little more than three months, erasing everything that stocks gained after the year's first day of trading. This makes her one of the lone bears on the Street.

"It's all about emotion at this point. The entirety of the S&P 500's increase this year has come via the multiple," Adams said. "It's been simply through the amount that investors are willing to bid up the value of the future earnings stream."

Indeed, the S&P 500's price-earnings multiple has risen from 17 on Jan. 1 to nearly 20. That means the market has largely been rising due to investors' willingness to pay more for those earnings.

Adams goes on to argue that the recent rise in Treasury yields could put an end to this inclination.

so she's obviously not that convinced then, and can say "told you so" whatever happens!
no wonder she has to work for others for a living!

As a younger man, I used to say something along the lines of - in an infinite universe, I'm with Sophia Loren somewhere right now! etc - so I guess the same mentality applies to GMA.

The Cons are smiling at UKIP.

It won't make any differance to UKIP in the poll's

UKIP seem to be stagnating in the polls now after falling back from their highs. It looks like they will fall lower towards the election.

you can expect some serious searching for salacious snippets and similar re ukip from both labour and of course the conservatives .... mind you, ukip is pretty good at self-immolation without help

Nigel Farage has gone way over the top. Imho just some light banter that has been taken out of context.

It wasn't just the 'sluts' issue. Bloom has been making stupid comments for months. He said the other day that small companies should be allowed to sack pregnant women. Prior to that he said the UK should stop sending foreign aid to 'bongobongo land'. This is a problem that UKIP has. They are contesting all parliamentary seats and for MEPs. Farage has said that they cannot vet that number of people. So expect more gaffs from nutters. It is so bad that in some areas you just have to ask to stand for UKIP.

As Ed Miliband prepares to open a party conference dedicated to highlighting the crisis in living standards, Labour faces mixed polling showing it is the party most blamed for the fall in living standards

Asked by YouGov who is mainly to blame for the fall in living standards over the last few years, 30% blame Labour, compared with 16% who blame the Conservatives alone and 9% who blame the coalition.

Only 22% of the British public think UKIP leader Nigel Farage is trustworthy, according to a YouGov poll for Channel 5.

On the day of his keynote conference speech, the survey also found that 32% of people think Farage has had a negative effect on British politics.

Of over 1,200 people surveyed, one in four of those who intend to vote for UKIP at the next election were undecided about his trustworthiness.

His popularity was greatest amongst people aged 60 and over, with 47% saying he has had a positive effect on politics, compared to just 22% for 18 to 24 year olds.

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The dodgy UK regulation of dodgy investment banks while Labour were in power.