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.

The polls are strange.

I was chatting with a group in the tory heartland of Brum a night, or two ago.

I thought the majority would be stalwart party supporters.

What surprised me was that when Cameron and Osborne's name was mention the groans and denigration of which the group emitted.

Felt quite at home.

NEW YORK — The Teflon bull market keeps charging to record highs. Nothing, it seems, can stop it.

This year alone the stock market has survived the recent brush with a U.S. debt default. It has also survived a government shutdown. Tax hikes. Government spending cuts. The threat of war. Terror at the Boston Marathon. A spike in interest rates. Plunging Apple shares. Stock exchange glitches. Fears of a less-friendly Federal Reserve. And a narrow escape from going over the "fiscal cliff."

Nothing bad seems to stick. On Thursday, bolstered by an 11th-hour deal in Congress to avert the nation's first-ever default, the Standard & Poor's 500 index soared to a new all-time closing high of 1733.15, eclipsing its mid-September record. That extends the bull's gain to 156.2% since it began in March 2009 and 21.5% this year alone.

To say the U.S. market has been resilient would be an understatement, says Chris Bouffard, chief investment officer at The Mutual Fund Store. "One by one, all of these worries have gradually been pushed aside," he says.

There are still risks. The debt deal is temporary. Political dysfunction could roil markets again when the new deadlines hit in early 2014. The economy also suffered "unnecessary damage" during the crisis, says President Obama, although the "full scope" is still unclear.

Any hit to the economy

could have a negative spillover on corporate profitability, a key driver of stock prices.

But even though there's always a chance of things going wrong and the market going down, that doesn't mean long-term investors shouldn't "stay the course," says Bouffard.

For one, the hit to the economy and confidence all but assures that one of the bullish underpinnings of the 4-year old bull — the Fed's easy-money policies — will remain in place even longer. The Fed is now less likely to start dialing back on its market-friendly bond purchases this year, possibly pushing that back to 2014.

"It means the liquidity playbook remains viable and risk assets like stocks will continue to have a tailwind," says Bouffard.

The chances of a sharp spike in bond yields, another threat to stocks, have also been reduced due to the hit to the economy caused by the nation's debt fight, the belief that the Fed will remain sidelined, and little confidence in Congress actually coming up with a grand bargain to solve the nation's fiscal woes anytime soon, says George Goncalves, head of interest rate strategy at Nomura.

Still, the slow-growth U.S. economy will continue to chug along with help from improving economies in places like Europe, Japan and China, says Bouffard. "The global story," he says, "is getting better."

Felicity Morse‏@FelicityMorse
Cameron heard about #jumpergate whilst in his car. Pull over! he told his chauffeur

Hays Hays Hays.......just out.......

electionista‏@electionista11m
UK - Populus poll: CON 33%, LAB 39%, LDEM 12%, UKIP 9%

Hays Hays Hays out earlier this morning missed it......

electionista‏@electionista6h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 34%, LAB 40%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 11%


Obviously your poll was a rouge poll.

Talking of pull overs....




Ed Davey: I wear a jumper at home to keep energy bills down

The Energy Secretary said it is possible to keep bills down by taking energy efficient measures


Heather Saul

Friday 18 October 2013



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ed-davey-i-wear-a-jumper-at-home-to-keep-energy-bills-down-8889452.html

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL........... Hays its not another spoof, honestly its the truth.....

Ed Davey: I wear a jumper at home to keep energy bills down
The Energy Secretary said it is possible to keep bills down by taking energy efficient measures

Heather Saul Friday 18 October 2013

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ed-davey-i-wear-a-jumper-at-home-to-keep-energy-bills-down-8889452.html

Beat me to it Max.......just. LOL.

Duncan Hothersall‏@dhothersall25m
#Jumpergate update. Political positions are as follows:
Cameron: opposed.
Salmond: in favour.
Miliband: calling for a judge-led enquiry.

gareth evans‏@gareth010833m
.@David_Cameron with hundreds of sheep farmers leaving the industry every year would your new Chinese mates supply the jumpers? #jumpergate

They're in full on banana skin mode now!

I was chatting with a group in the tory heartland of Brum a night, or two ago.


That must have made their night Freddie

Thank you.

It was very enjoyable.

Not a UKIPPER in sight.

Where is everyone today?????.

Hays usualy camps out here 24 X 7 x 52

Just appeared on the EMG thread LOL LOL LOL. Do you get it.

Are you Man enough?

EMG

Velocity

ontheturn

Fri 18 Oct 17:09

Probably they have become totally fed up with your Twitter nonsense. I think you should start a thread with the TWIT epic and all the twits like you can post on it.
Answer to your earlier post 31282 you prize twit.

Dave Camoron‏@EtonOldBoys10m
I was in bed with my new Girlfriend last night, and she said I‘d got the biggest dick she’d ever laid her hands on, I said, “You’re pulling my leg”

Dave Camoron‏@EtonOldBoys27m
Just got back from my mates funeral , he died after being hit on the head with a tennis ball . It was a lovely service.

The latest posts just go to prove that despite gf's silly nonsense about supposedly having some posters squelched ----------------! Prize twit as I just said.:-)

Dave Camoron‏@EtonOldBoys40m
Ryan Giggs today admitted to suffering from homesickness, saying that even though he's happy in Manchester he does Miss Wales occasionally.