rather than pick out individual stocks to trade, it can often be worthwhile to trade the indices themselves, especially in times of high volatility.

for those so inclined, i attach below charts for FTSE and FTSE 250, though one might equally be tempted to trade Dow or S&P, which is significantly broader in its coverage, or even NASDAQ

for ease of reading, i have attached 1 year and 3 month charts in each instance

It still exists all right
but yes, it is part of Linde

but I knew that

hmm! Linde might not agree though to be honest, they trade under a variety of names depending on location and customer custom

here are a few for you

http://www.boconline.ie/

http://www.boconline.co.uk/

http://boc.com.au

anyway, you didnt answer the question

:-)

Driver's mate if you ask me, so he can keep an eye on the laptop!

currently driving over a cliff

Ah yes, but at what altitude?

Hope his hankerchief was big enough to save him....

f'ing tissues always tear!

Another bad day (so far), it's days like this where selective buying can be so rewarding (he says hopefully). Decent divi payers can be picked up at reasonable entry points, having said that, I believe there is more weakness to come and possibly too early for housing and banking stocks. Aimo of course
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cynic shorters have the upper hand ,Merkel is right, FTSE heading below 5000,discuss!!

trouble with divy plays is it takes ages to get sp back to where you bought in so as not to make a loss, have 3 at the mo about 40p below and don't want to sell at a loss..

I picked up some SSE earlier at a 12 month low. 49p dividend to come ex date 28th July.

appalling ..... when i left london this morning, market was making a steady if modest recovery

FTSE could easily lose another few hundred points very quickly

cynic nymex $67 have you woken up to what is happening?

to those of my faith, we say holocaust!
if you know what is happening, then you know more than probably anyone else.
in seriousness, the concern is that europe really is in deep shit and that the german banks are going to have to own up to some masive debt problems.
certainly the rest of the world - f/e, south americ and india - are still thundering out of recession, as i guess is usa.
however, if europe suddenly stop consuming - but no one actually knows if that will even happen - then of course there are again major probs
it is always easy to imagine ghoulies and ghosties and worse, espcially when the markets suddenly go into freefall

cynic so the pundits prediction of 1000pts fall in the FTSE and oil at $65 is not far from the mark?

QE stopped, cash for clunkers stopped, inducements to buy a house drying up, inflation higher than expected, tax rises to come, and euro bank sector fears rise, no surprise the markets are lower.
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I predict a better day tomorrow.....