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.

gf I realise that, I just think a large percentage of the American population, including their politicians should live on another planet.:-)

They said the same then cyners but I get your point.

Must admit aswel all my positions were well in profit so not really bothered about closing them down, I will always open new ones and make a lot of cosha.

Nice to have new positions aswel.

These days I buy stocks I like the name of.

with a pin? lol

and yes, i too have locked in profits in some stocks, but left others running

Doodles after this weeks escapades with the US politicians I wouldnt bet anything against them.

Strikes me that country is not a stable country after those actions on monday.

Saudi isn't either, but that's not so obvious from the outside

Getting more through from US on twitter, this looks very serious.

City A.M.‏@CityAM10m
US treasury says default could mean worse crisis than in 2008

by Peter Spence October 3, 2013, 3:25pm The US treasury has said that a government default would be unprecedented and potentially catastrophic, and could lead to a financial crisis worse than that seen in 2008, according to CNBC.

More to follow. -

15,000 going on the DOW.

discretion and valour came to mind so encashed BLNX and TCG for tasty profits ..... no one went broke etc etc :-)

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett thinks that the political maneuvering ultimately will result in an 11th hour deficit deal.

Story Highlights
Buffet says Congress will 'go right up to the point of extreme idiocy'
But he thinks there will be a last-minute deal

The Oracle of Omaha isn't ready to panic -- yet.

Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, said Thursday morning in an interview on CNBC that he expects Congress to resolve a stalemate over the U.S. debt ceiling before the nation suffers serious harm.

"We will go right up to the point of extreme idiocy, but we won't cross it," he said in the CNBC interview, appearing somewhat exasperated as he spoke.

His comments come at a moment of unusual national political tension. Democrats and Republicans have not been able to resolve their differences on the budget or on the deficit. Those differences have left 800,000 federal employees on temporary furlough -- with no end in sight.

At the same time, there is no consensus on whether to raise the government's borrowing authority by the Oct. 17th deadline. Failure to do so, the administration has said, would result in the nation's first-ever default.

gf is off again on a rant. Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted and the US defaults, which is unlikely to start with, it will be lifted at some stage pretty sson. Any drop in the US market will be temporary and it will just bounce back. That saying, there could be a buying opportunity if the market drops for a bit.

DB.

Apologies about E-mail address.

C + P for reference and didn't edit.

Not intentional mistake and I think it was harmless.

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There are many professional "beggars" working on the streets and in their "offices" in many towns in Britain and the continent and some do take holidays in different countries.

Each group plying their skills to the best of their abilities and some with greater degree of detriment to the public than others.

I would prefer to see less "beggars" on the streets, rather than more.

The majority are inadequate, either physically, socially, or mentally incompetent (due to lacking knowledge to cope more efficiently and realistically, but sometimes copying the "morality" of their "betters"), but there are rogue elements amongst them. (Amoral, using market forces as they see opportune.)

I mock the present government, because it stigmatises a group and scapegoats them as the cause of all society's problems, without addressing the reasons for the "problems" why, or attempting in decent humane manner to resolve the problems if they see them.

Not easy, but I think should be attempted.

As far as voting or not, that is my prerogative, but if you inform me which party I should vote for, and the reasons for your conclusions, I may consider it.

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I asked Hays a few questions earlier about the slogans, which I thought contained in Cameron's "spiel" in Manchester.

I thought I had read similar previously.

If you substitute "Reich" for "party" you may recall from where and when those slogans were used and the solutions offered at that time.

There is a similarity to the actions some would like applied at the moment in this country.

Doodles the very fact that Buffet is commentating on a MACRO event is a stand up call in itself.

The fact that he says it will go down to the 11th hour is a warning to all.

Cynic dont forget their will be days or half days for counter rallys.

Might be worth researching for companys that have been well oversold in the right sectors and taking out daily trade contracts. That way your not locked in.

Breath of fresh air not to have that sad sick maniac Haytrees posting today. Long may it last.

Think Ill put something in the header warning new posters.

Right off to watch the Spurs match on freeview at 4.45pm......come on you spurs.

Swansea on tonight same channel think its nos 24.

just had to post this from twitter.

Do you think these guys will be voting Tory................I think not. Osbourne shot in foot.

More than 220,000 middle class parents face fines from HMRC in child benefit crackdown
Nearly a quarter of a million middle class parents face a fine from HM Revenue & Customs over their failure to register for self-assessment after claiming child benefit

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10351171/More-than-220000-middle-class-parents-face-fines-from-HMRC-in-child-benefit-crackdown.html

the taxation system is so complex and indeed opaque in many respects, that it is no surprise if a goodly number of people/families did not even realise they had to start self-assessing .... as i'm sure i would have done, they will have assumed that as they have only one job and no other taxable income, then there was nothing further to do

sticky - with CFDs i don't need to do daily trades - i can just open a position and let it run as long as i choose ..... i don't think it'll be so much o'sold stocks to take a look at, but special sits .... NYO was a good (i hope) one this morning, and there'll assuredly be other spivvy stocks which suddenly take the fancy of the lemmings, on which it can be worth riding the momentum

i'ld be more inclined to try to catch (estimate!) the bottom of dow or s+p500 or even ftse, because when an agreement does come - as assuredly it will, there will be at least a hefty DCB .... shortie and skinny are pretty good on those, though i don't agree with shortie's assessment that dow 15,000 was critical other than as a convenient round number

Buffett -"We will go right up to the point of extreme idiocy, but we won't cross it," he said in the CNBC interview, appearing somewhat exasperated as he spoke.

In a nutshell what he thinks about the politicians running his country!

I only hold AFR now.

What would the Gold price do if their go though the dept ceiling ?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/01/ed-miliband-daily-mail_n_4022431.html?utm_hp_ref=uk