Any punters living in Birmingham Area interested in a Pie, Pint and jaw, one evening in a pub in Birmingham area.
Personally interested in small time investing(gambling), developing an appetite for CFDs. Also developing an interest in Charting or TA.

I use Sharescope, Moneyam, Barclays, Comdirect and IC

'Part' should of course been 'Party' .....

I presume it's still Wellingtons at 17.00?

Absolutely.

..... todays events can give a new take on the saying:
"Had a good day at work, Darling"

OK. Thursday. 17.00. Let's see if the goverment can give away the personel details of the other half of the population by then. (Wouldn't surprise me).
This'll have repercusions for years.....

Also, guess it'll now be an answer to a Computer Technology exam question i.e.
Q/.How much data can you fit on to one CD?
A/.Enough to give personal details of 12.5m people.

And a final thought on the matter from Herodotus in 480 BC (In this instance I think BC = Before CD's):
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

Stan .... have you received any communication from CMC / DL to confirm venue tomorrow night?

Yes.

Going to a CW effort in London tonight. May be like the one that was pulled last week in Brum. If it is still like it was a few years back the venue will be interesting -Bloomberg's. I've never seen an office set up like it.

Should be OK for tomorow, If I can remember where the boozer is. You'd be surprised how many local workers hadn't got a clue last time...........

I think Stan - in view of what looks more and more like an invincible position - should approach MAM for an advance, something on account, so we can toast his brilliance. At his expence, naturally.

Sadly 55 the date is only 21st Nov. and not 30th Nov...many a slip and all that -):

Get your thinking caps on for our Pre-Midwinter Break Meal, can I suggest a couple of dates
13th Thur.and 12th Wed. of December for starters.

Venues and times to be discussed and hopefully Fred will be in a position to pass a fitness test by then.

We may have 2 new faces tonight from T2W by the way.

ED; Don't forget the Welly's excellent live board: http://www.thewellingtonrealale.co.uk/Pages/BeerBoard.asp

The 'Pig on the Wall Mild' was good last time. Think I'll steer clear of Coastal Rrosion @7.6 % ....

Quite a respectable range there, not much of a price differential for strength, though. Time was when Mild...........

Oh, just setting off. I'll bring last night's "slides" with me in case anyone is interested - the SG CW presentation that is. Some good points made from the floor, and were not to the speakers liking! Caveat Emptor as ever.

Be aware that Selftrade (Boursorama) intends to pimp its website over this weekend - hope it not like the railway engineering which sometimes drags on into Monday or ...........

Let me try to get you boys back to work.

This maybe one for 55, but DYOH.

Worth a look MPI.

I made a mistake and did not sell at a 5% drop. It has cost me more than I should have allowed.

I thought the fundamentals justified a higher price than the market was paying for it at the time, although anybody with any sense looking at the TA would have sold.

It has a PE of about 15, projected 9, and peg of. .25 projected .34. a yield of 2.4% up to 3%.

Projection of turnover and profits support the figures.

The antipathy is whether or not the economy is going to contract and MPI function will be less needed and profitable.

I think that SP is likely to be on the upturn, but probably better to watch for a bit longer.

There has been director buying today and no recent institutional selling.

(What has interested me over the last six months (including last two mths,) that there seems to be a balance of more buying to selling by directors over the whole market. I am judging this by reported directors trading in own companies.) I hope this is not false optimism.



Michael Page says CEO Ingham, FD Puckett lift stakes in coAFX
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Michael Page International PLC said chief executive Steve Ingham, finance director Stephen Puckett and managing director for Europe and American operations Charles-Henri Dumon each bought 170,000 shares in the company at 280 pence a share.Following these transactions, Ingham holds 1.17 mln shares or 0.36 pct, Puckett holds 373,526 shares or 0.12 pct, and Dumon about 1.20 mln shares or 0.37 pct in the company. TFN.newsdesk@thomson.comjjo/bsu/ajbCOPYRIGHT

Work is just a but pint away....

Hope everyone got home OK, managed to get a train that should have gone 3 minutes before for the second time on the trot.

Good presentation I thought, no bull and too the point...pity that the tuck/drink was a bit basic but worth the time I thought.

Chris, more good piece of news re EXPN this afternoon I see.

Glad you hear you got your train. I suppose it's one of the advantages of applying 'Just In Time' principles to train stock. With much reduced turnaround times for trains, then if it finishes its previous route/journey late then it will commence its next new journey/route late as well.

Yes, good presentation.... no spin .... but unfortunately I don't like the technique of using the 'Special Offer valid for tonight only'. I presume they bought the very basic package as regards room hire. Had dinner after I got home - but the 10 chocolate cakes kept me going thru the seminar. So unfortunately we couldn't give Fred a proper toast during the seminar.

Looks like the B'ham Pie & Pint attendence at a seminar always runs in to some 'trouble'. We've had the WS one where both the main speakers didn't turn up, then the CW one which was cancelled, then last nights with second half of it based around 'live trading' of DOW - on a day the DOW was closed (Thanksgiving Day - always fourth Thursday in November). Wonder what fate will befall the next B'ham seminar.....venue will burn down?

Yes, another good contract for EXPN announced.

and going back to what we were discussing last night then its one of the MAM lead stories today:

"Northern Rock has considerable holes in its asset base that may harm its ability to repay loans.

This includess the 23bn of taxpayers' money it has been lent by the Bank of England, according to The Guardian. "

I think the the NR business just gets worst on all accounts. Wonder if the "on the night CMC offer" could be attained anyway, as all these betting shops/brokers must be loosing volume hand over fist in the current climate and gagging for any new business.

stan ... you might get some follow-up contact from them offering something ..... I don't suppose I will as they didn't have my details despite sending me two auto-acknowledgements originally...

Yes possible I suppose, see from their website they have a 10000 dummy trial on. Could be interesting.