Marks And Spencer Share Discussion Threads

[old crow] 29/10/2011 09:52

Interesting, click the link.



Keep Crowing

[wllmherk] 28/10/2011 23:15

Im tempted too, numbers will be better than expected in my view.

wllm

[purple boots] 28/10/2011 22:10

Chichester was still going strong at 4.30, bought a nice cardi!

[old crow] 28/10/2011 21:07

GRUSS, the Crows were in MKS Chichester branch today, so packed it was a pleasure to get out, so reckon at 330 this still a bargain price, we purchased a load at 308 should have bought more
current price should be around 360 wait until the results come out and lots will be wishing.

[gruss] 17/10/2011 10:13

Pleased I kept the faith and topped up again at the lower levels. I take my hat off to the shorters because without them this would never have been achieved.

[luminoso] 26/9/2011 11:27

The graphs at top of page seem to have seized up at 8.15am ! Or is it just me. have been refreshing but no change.
Edit - working again.

[nickward] 15/9/2011 09:41

John Lewis have already spoilt the party

Profits Half at John Lewis

Full effects of the downturn on the high street have been laid bare by John Lewis which reported a shock fall of 54% of the companies' department store business for the first half of the year.
Source: The Guardian

Nearly time to close my long hedge and top up the short. The perfect storm is brewing in Europe and it will rip the guts out of our economy if the Tories don't do it first.

Good Luck

[gruss] 14/9/2011 15:10

While the world and his partner were being fearful I have been topping up at about the £3.00 mark. Nick has done a magnificent job. LOL

No doubt Kingfisher and Debenhams will spoil the share party tomorrow and will be down to £3.00 again.

[artnouveau] 14/9/2011 15:01

Don't know about southerners but the shares are well and truly heading North. Not a position to be in if you're short.

ArtN

[nickward] 14/9/2011 12:08

Grus. Glad you can benefit from shorters like me, we do help sometimes because when they pull back we hedge them with a long position to lock in the profit until they run out of puff. I always wondered what type of person would go to a shop opening; our local radio station had a discussion about it and everybody who phoned in thought it a bit bizarre, perhaps it's a southerner thing.

[jeffian] 14/9/2011 00:14

"quality plastic flutes"

Oxymoron?

They may go in there, but will they spend?

[robertfaulkner] 13/9/2011 20:28

I went to the opening of Westfield at Stratford east London today, what a store. Recession what recession the M & S store is absolutely huge, full of punters and free bubbly in quality plastic flutes.

I walked across a bridge from Stratford old center to the Westfield, twenty people a breast in a continuous wave of people, they had to stop the escalators to slow the movement inside the center.

[spacecake] 13/9/2011 18:19

"Marks and Spencer's chief executive Marc Bolland is stepping up the battle for the upmarket food shopper, introducing delicatessens and bakeries as part of a £600m store overhaul"

He should get out the office more, I have just come from one of their shops with an in shop bakery and a huge delicatessen.

The change to massive mark downs on food is changing customer behavior with punters following staff around to pick up the marked down food, ignoring the rest.

In fact some customers have been seen approaching staff asking them to get a move on with the mark downs !

[gruss] 13/9/2011 08:05

Its good to see our nick is still shorting because its gamblers like him that make it possible for me to continue to add to my holdings on the dips.\

Keep the good work up nick!

[philanderer] 12/9/2011 22:32

Financial Times -

Marks and Spencer's chief executive Marc Bolland is stepping up the battle for the upmarket food shopper, introducing delicatessens and bakeries as part of a £600m store overhaul

[careful] 12/9/2011 11:00

just like old times.
bght back in to mks today 3.075.
bght at about the same price in the early 90's and did quite well.
a great bargain i think with all of the worst case scenario in the price and a lot more to boot.
thanks to all you shorters for an early christmas present.

[nickward] 12/9/2011 10:13

Hi Guys, still short and staying short, I can't see anything positive about retail at the moment and a nasty Christmas for retailers should provide a suitable exit point. Currently I have my eye on the £2.60 mark. If you're deluded and think the economy is not dreadful try getting out of the South East corner of Britain, the shocking economic state the Tory led coalition government have put us in will make your toes curl. On the note of private equity take over, they would have to be barking mad to pay the £4.50 price speculated on this board. Good luck with your positions, it's good to see that reality has actually dawned on some of you. Lots of people had a pop when I declared my shorts on this board many months ago, well I hate to say I told you so.

[gruss] 08/9/2011 12:18

An Apax spokesman declined to comment on the report when contacted by Bloomberg.

[isis] 08/9/2011 12:04

Good figures from Laura Ashley - Retail very mixed at present.

[philanderer] 08/9/2011 12:02

Welcome to Markets Live. New messages will appear here as they are posted.

NH
rumour

NH
that someone has bid Brandes for their holding

BE
Was just trying to get figures on Brandes' holding last night.

BE
Seems they have sold down quite a bit. Below 4% now, if RNS is to be believed.

BE
And there's pressure on every front for M&S at the moment.

BE
Please excuse my cynicism, but it sounds to me more like a convenient story than a credible one

[isis] 08/9/2011 09:12

I think that bid talk is a Red Herring, they would want more than that - look what happened to Phillip Green.

[gruss] 08/9/2011 09:09

Nicd

Been there and done that as they say but to me MKS is a class act ånd bought for the long term.

Marks & Spencer – Co. shares rose yesterday on private equity takeover talk, Apax is rumoured to be considering GBP 4.50 per share offer. (Independent)

PS Take that with a pinch of salt. Its the same old chestnut reheated.