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.

they do, or should :-)

I Just found a letter on a train. It reads;

Dear Alisdair Darling, (Must know each other quite well)

The reason why inflation is over 3% is cos things cost more now.

The reason they cost more is cos people will pay it on the chucky and worry about it later, a bit like you lot did over the last few years.

Inflation will either go up or down soon, but we're all buggered if we know what to do next, and frankly don't really care cos we get paid anyway and if it goes wrong we can just put our big pension in the Caymen Islands and live somewhere sunny.

Anyway, its your job at risk, not mine so I don't give a stuff, as long as all my houses don't lose too much.

Stay lucky,

Mervyn King


Another scandal about sensitive documents getting lost!
Typical!!

Any of you clever lot out there know of a web site that I can use to find which LSE quoted companies are being shorted and by what percentage.
I have trawled goggle etc and none have come up.

I don't think its available on here but it is available under 'financials' on advfn.

Skinny,

Many thanks. Found it on the site you mentioned. I used to belong to ADVFN several years ago and this must be a fairly new addition.
Regards Greek.

This couple, who have reared a lion cub, have to release it into the wild to become a wild lion. Sadly, it is just too big for them to keep.

A year goes by and they go back to Africa to see how the lion, who they named Christian, is getting on.

They have been told that it will not remember them. Here's what happens when they meet up once again.

Do you think it will remember them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNTdWbVBgc

Skinny,

Any idea's. I could get the info yesterday re shares on loan ADVFN for a couple of hours, but since then it does not come up on financials. Can you only get these on a regular basis if you sign up re paying to upgrade from free.

Greek.

Greekman - I cannot seem to find them now and I do subscribe!!

Strange to say the least. Anyway will keep trying and thanks again for the info.
If I do find any site that provides such info, I will let you know.
Also I have e-mailed ADVFN re the apparent loss of the aforementioned info.

Greek

Greekman - apparently advfn are no longer showing the crest information - I should have kept quite!

Skinny,

Thanks. No doubt it was me trying the site that jinxed it up.

G&S,
There used to be a list in Shares mag.
Maybe someone at MAM could let you know
where the got their info.
mac

It probably has something to do with the FSA demanding more openness on positions with a ruling as from 20th June.

Thanks to all. Am awaiting reply from ADVFN, but it did cross my mind that it may be linked to the FSA ruling as they are looking to take action against Deutsche Bank re their advise to client to short right issues in British Banks. Although as the rules stand I fail to see how they can.
Interesting all the same.

Have still not found any site that supplies shares on loan figures for free but still looking.
Still awaiting reply from ADVFN, although I did receive an auto 'receipt of message'.
After 2 days, I don't expect any reply as when I was with them several years ago, their customer services were a disgrace, the same went for iii. When will companies learn that it costs far more to attract new customers than it does to retain existing customers (about 10 times as much according to a report released last May re banking services). It is far more difficult to gauge the effect of retention of custom than it is to gauge the effect of newly attained custom.
As to MoneyAm they do as we know, like all web site companies have their site faults and problems, but I don't think anyone can fault their customer services, both for speed of reply and helpfulness.
Just thought they deserve a plaudit or two.

Greekman when I asken them on the problem thread, this was their reply


Skinny:

We are no longer providing the Crest loan information on our site.

Regards,

Skinny,

Thanks. You would have thought courtesy would have resulted in a reply to me though.

Just had the usual supermarket discount/offers bumf put through the door.
It has several items marked 'Any 2 for said amount' and several items market ' Buy 1 get one free' (Can anyone out there can tell me the difference).
My wife has a habit that annoys me (well she has several but time is limited), whenever she sees the 'bogof' offer she will repeat it. Any offer stated in this manner annoys me as quite often I don't want 2 of the bl**dy things and you are not as we all know getting '1 free'.
Another con which I am sure often catches out mainly elderly people who are trying to save money, are the prices for differing sizes amounts. Most people take it for granted that if you for example buy a jar of coffee, 500g the price is less than 2x250g jars of the same brand. Tesco where we do our main shop has dozens of offers where the bigger the amount buy, works our far more expensive. I have found the same in all the big 4. Also some so called offers on the 'cheap counter' are more expensive than those on the main sales shelves.
In our local street market you often see signs stating, 25p each 4 for a and similar. In fact I saw a sign a few weeks ago where it cost more to buy 4 together than it did to buy 1x4 singly, and yet people were still going for the multiple buy offer.
These may be pathetic points to moan about when there are obviously far more serous subject to moan about, but I HATE GETTING RIPPED OF.

Graphic but true. Now if only Zimbabwe had oil, no doubt the western world would be in there sorting out democracy like a shot.
As for so called war crimes, I think I have just about as much chance winning the lottery than Mugabe has of seeing Justice against him.
Saying that, I don't think we should intervene by direct action as no doubt if we did both sides after a time would treat us as the enemy, something that always appears to happen. Let the African countries sort it out if they have the will.