Barclays Share Discussion Threads

[portside1] 20/5/2024 14:44

Very true a good result

[johnwise] 20/5/2024 13:01

The world is a better place without them. Unfortunately it will be another hardliner who replaces him unless social unrest manages to get a grip and forces change..

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“Nasty Piece Of Work, The Butcher Of Tehran” | Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi Dies In Helicopter Crash

[portside1] 20/5/2024 10:27

Buy buy buy

[portside1] 20/5/2024 10:27

Dz +63 tze

[prbshares] 20/5/2024 10:08

lets hope so, certainly would finally reflect the nav !

[johnwise] 20/5/2024 07:52

Margaret Thatcher left a dark legacy that has still not disappeared ...


Water investors have withdrawn billions from private companies, analyst claims


On Friday, the UK Health Security Agency said 46 cases of infection by cryptosporidium, a parasite that can cause diarrhoea and vomiting, had been confirmed in Brixham after people drank contaminated water.

Water companies are proposing raising household bills by 33 per cent over the next five years to fund infrastructure projects.

Shareholder investment in top 10 water and sewage firms has decreased by £5.5bn since privatisation. while dividend payments have increased to £72.8bn

[prbshares] 20/5/2024 07:48

Half way through the 1BN buyback, so in theory it should end around 20th August ... wonder where the share price will be then ?

[portside1] 20/5/2024 07:36

Half way of buybacks completed 255 is now on target by end of July

[johnwise] 20/5/2024 06:49

Bring Back the Dunce Cap..


Ed Barker: The Bank of England is running up huge losses – and then sending the bill to the taxpayer

As almost 48 parliamentarians wrote in their letter to the Chancellor last month, the Bank of England has decided actively to generate losses on these bond sales – and then make British taxpayers liable for up to £190 billion of losses.

During the pandemic, in 2020-21, almost all central banks around the world purchased short-term debt from their governments, which expired automatically in one to three years. The Bank of England, on the other hand, accumulated in its own words “a relatively long duration stock”, with most of its bonds having a 20-year lifespan.

Because of this, the Bank has been forced to pursue “aggressive” QT, which means it sells off its bonds rather than letting them expire at the end of their term (“passive” QT), as other central banks are largely doing. This is creating exorbitant losses: the bonds bought in July-September 2021, for example, are today being sold at a 57 per cent loss.

And once these losses are generated, Threadneedle Street is then billing taxpayers for its losses. No mainstream central bank is doing this – only countries like Albania and Azerbaijan.

What does the Bank know that gives it the confidence to go it alone and ignore international central bank practice? Why is one of the world’s oldest central banks adopting the practice of the central banks in Albania and Azerbaijan, instead of those of the US and EU states?

[johnwise] 20/5/2024 06:08

When it comes to extradition to America. I'm afraid that it's a one way ticket. That is unless of course if they have arrived here by dinghie.


WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange faces US extradition judgment day, key dates recapped
If the high court rules the extradition can go ahead, Assange's legal avenues in Britain are exhausted, and his lawyers will turn to the European Court of Human Rights

[johnwise] 20/5/2024 06:01

Hell Bound ..

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, known for enforcing brutal crackdowns on political opposition and seen as a potential successor to the supreme leader, has died in a helicopter crash landing

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, known for brutal crackdowns against political opposition, dies at 63

“Crimes against humanity”

Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric, helped escalate military tensions around Europe and the Middle East and oversaw strict enforcement of women’s dress codes. Amini’s killing. She died after being detained by morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly and failing to adhere to the dress code.

Raisi was sometimes notably referred to as the “Butcher of Tehran,” as activists have accused him of being one of the four judges who oversaw the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 after the Iran-Iraq war. Iran has never acknowledged what has been described as a massacre of an estimated 2,800 to 5,000 people, according to Human Rights Watch.

[johnwise] 19/5/2024 23:47

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Chaos In Iran As People Celebrate President's Helicopter Crash