anything under 7 cheap cheap cheap. good div. just paid. chart looks sick

I think you are right, it is still going down, where do you think it might stop.

AGM "may stop the slide" - - the worry is (IMHO) the 'Dual-Role' issue with Stuart Rose . . . . sure he's "capable" - but that's not the point, it's only a short walk to anarchy..... and I think this is the root problem.
[[However read ScotInvestor 18 June (politics)]]....I hold a few but may buy-in if it gets really cheap - but not yet awhile as I think no-one is likely to bid - and Retail is unlikely to improve at least until Interest-rates/Wages/Mortgages are no-longer a worry. Dark days ahead I fear.

yes, m&s is going down for next 12 months......end of 2009 and we might be turning around in country economically....but no guarantee...and certainly not under this incompetent government whose misuse of OUR money has been nothing short of criminal.....uk is knackered and no-one it seems is going to stop us slide into the abyss......2 more years of labour dragging us into the gutter. oh, and stop blaming it on international stuff......housing foasco was political driven and this is 1st gov to do this.....and i'm sure cos mrs.t revolutionised people into having shares...and that lab cabinet cant have shares....so they buy houses instead...like john reid who puts it into his non dom brazilian wife and pays no tax....what a great socialist!!! NOT.

AT LEAST STALIN was a true socialist....i'd rather have him than blair, brown or any other weak pathetic labour plebs

Growing your own veg could be a good idea if it were not for they security you have to provide.

Allotment owners are having to improve security for their veg to stop it getting nicked

saving is at lowest in banks since 1959.....in fact saving under labour is at 0%....this is serious stuff and shows that uk is knackered.

petrol is getting nicked, copper stuff, drains etc getting nicked.....crime soars when most people have little to survive....yes, survive.

5.4 million pensioners and cildren in poverty alone.....and 4.8 million claim benefits and unemployment nearing 2 million.

i reckon at least 12 million are in poverty and probably 15 to 20 million are in poverty......just read that 350 australian bankers in london have left uk as they are fed up looking at the poverty in uk, lol

MKS is a good short as retail is doing poorly. Now 314p.

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227p and dividend going to be slashed. SELL!

what level will it go to to make it a buy, hyleo?

i dont short ....i hate shorters....should be outlawed like they done in pakistan.
banks taken to silly levels, housebuilders on verge of going bust, shops, supermarkets stuffed.....uk is being finished off by shorters.....bring back stalin, he';d have them liquidated and stop this capitalism nonsense which aint working

arsehole!
take a walk down your local high street and look at the "for sale" signs and the general lack of biz ...... surely that tells you plenty.
i would be very wary indeed of buying any high street stocks at all, when even John Lewis reports 8.3% fall in w/e 28th June and mid-price restaurants and the like are also being whacked ..... ASOS (which i don't hold unfortunately) is arguably the exception, though of course it is net based.

general high street as u call it is awash with gypsies, thieves and other rif-raf......too busy trying to dodge them let alone look at empty shops....if they r empty as u say.
actually aberdeen shopping centres are absolutely mobbed as city is awash with money.....most people here are millionaires that i associate with and many cant understand the constant moaning by people in rest of country

i thought for sale signs were on houses, not in high street

houses were politically driven up by gov.....its got to correct itself obviously as no-one lives in never never land.
expect 20-30% reduction to go

sell to 200p.

aberdeen is something of a exception as its wealth derives from the off-shore oil industry so is (currently) relatively immune from economic downturn elsewhere in the country ....... however, am much amused to hear that its streets are awash with the Great Unwashed and worse, whereas our own little town in the south is not!

btw, how do you sell a shop? ..... you put up a For Sale sign - doh! ..... and don't be such a fathead about house prices being manipulated by the government ...... why do you think housing in Aberdeen is generally so much higher than probably anywhere else in Scotland? ...... supply and demand!

no cynic......its cos of oil price here......just like 30 years ago. higher oil price means house prices go through the roof.....no pun intended, lol. when people talk of negative equirt, aberdeen had it at different time to rest of uk but of course news in uk never mentioned it......as usual, if london aint affected then it aint on the news

These are going one way only.

so are most shares......no need to gloat over a company struggling like it did in last bear market.....i dont hold but dont like to see things not doing well

takeover bid very soon

It has become too obvious that M&S is showing that it has NO consideration for the well-being of its employees. It only cares about profit-making.
This is DISGUSTING. Employees and consumers would not be loyal to M&S anymore.

DOWN with M&S!!!



M&S 'whistleblower' gets the sack

M&S has sacked its employee who told the media about its plans to cut redundancy pay. A worker at Marks & Spencer (M&S) has been sacked after telling the media that the company planned to cut redundancy pay to staff.

The employee attended a disciplinary hearing on Monday, and was told on Wednesday that he was being dismissed for gross misconduct.

M&S said he broke the company's rules and regulations and deliberately leaked internal company information.

The employee contacted the media last month over the redundancy pay cuts.

The member of staff, who had worked for the company for 25 years, told the press that the company wanted to cut redundancy payments by up to 25%.

Speculative comments

A M&S spokeman said that the employee was sacked because he made derogatory and speculative comments to the media, despite a variety of internal routes available to address any concerns.

He added that the company could not be confident that the man, who worked at its head office, would not disclose information in this way again.

M&S has changed its original proposals following consultations with staff but has still reduced redundancy payouts.

The GMB union who represented the employee at the disciplinary hearing claimed that this was a gross act of corporate bullying.

It accused M&S of not being concerned about promoting open discussion regarding the direction of the company and the way in which staff were being treated.

The union says it will be appealing against the decision.

MUST BE A BUY THEN, SHAREHOLDERS FIRST.