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[utyinv] 01/10/2024 16:41

US markets opened!

[ribblewader] 01/10/2024 15:22

What happened at approx 14:30? Lots of vertical falls all over the FTSE

[psychochopper] 01/10/2024 15:13

Jordaggy, you appear to suffer from something. Whatever it is, you deserve to meet a day of reckoning some time.

[jordaggy] 01/10/2024 13:44

Bye bye Jew. 😘

[geckotheglorious] 01/10/2024 13:31

psychochopper
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Gecko, I would have been less constrained than you. Israel should do whatever it takes to protect itself for the long term. The collateral damage is on the slate of Hamas and Hezzy, not Israel.

Oh I doubt that.
I'd have told Iran to order Hamas to release all the hostages in 24 hours or I'd work my way through their main cities turning them to glass.


In fact, they have shown commendable constraint by not threatening Tehran with big weapons.

Agreed.

[utrickytrees] 01/10/2024 13:04

Infact, given what we're expected to pay for failing water company bosses the next thing we'll be expected to cough up for is our own back garden, personal reservoirs.

[utrickytrees] 01/10/2024 12:51

If you got yourself an EV I think solar panels would probably pay for themselves in about 25yrs (excluding loss of compound interest on the initial outlay). At that 25 yr sweet spot however, you'll probably have to replace your panels cos they're rhubarb. With the benefit of hindsight Jim might have been better off spending his hard earned on strippers & recreational drugs.

[jordaggy] 01/10/2024 12:37

GG, you're too emotional to converse with. You need to calm down dear 🥰

[mikemichael2] 01/10/2024 12:33

I've also got 'experience' of solar, most people never get enough storage, you need a lot to produce power at night. My neighbour has had to up his 3 times so far.

[gotnorolex] 01/10/2024 12:03

tricky my neighbour of forty years got solar panels fitted a few years ago and actually made money from feeding surplus current into the grid! It ruined my DX (long distance) reception on SW. I helped him fit some filters to the circuit to minimise QRM (noise from electrical interference) which only partly worked! Anyway to cut a long story short, poor gentleman Jim popped his clogs last year leaving the house still empty. Now with the power switched off to the house, I can actually pickup harvesters in Manitoba chat to each other from combined harvesters to base. The wheat and soya fields are so vast that the earths curvature is not conducive to CB radio wavelengths and have to use shortwave equipment!

[psychochopper] 01/10/2024 11:27

Tricky, your numbers appear to be in the right ballpark.

[psychochopper] 01/10/2024 11:25

Gecko, I would have been less constrained than you. Israel should do whatever it takes to protect itself for the long term. The collateral damage is on the slate of Hamas and Hezzy, not Israel.

In fact, they have shown commendable constraint by not threatening Tehran with big weapons.

[gotnorolex] 01/10/2024 10:23

tricky...Panels work on available light, produce less energy in winter because the days are shorter. Ironically, cold temperatures mean solar panels work more efficiently.

[stonedyou] 01/10/2024 09:41

Another Month Of Ukrainian Offensive Ends With Russian Advance

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The month of September was difficult for Kiev, although it has recently made a strategic bet on an attack on Russian territory in the Kursk region. The offensives of the Russian army are gaining momentum on almost all Ukrainian frontlines. Pounding the strategic rear of the Ukrainian military, Russian forces are grinding down enemy troops in cauldrons.

On September 30, Russian kamikaze drones were busy destroying targets throughout Ukraine. The capital Kiev came under a massive attack. Drones reportedly destroyed warehouses near the Borispol airfield on the city outskirts and struck an energy station in the city itself. Iskander missiles struck a military echelon in the Mykolaiv region. Numerous explosions thundered in the Dnepropetrovsk, Zhitomir, Odessa, Cherkassy and Zaporozhie regions. Ukrainian military positions in Sumy and Kharkiv are continually pounded by Russian heavy bombs.

Destruction of Ukrainian reserves in the border areas and disruption of military supplies weakened Ukrainian positions in the Russian Kursk region. As a result, the Russian offensive continues. Over the past day, Russian forces advanced on the southern flank in the Kursk region. A wide area of about 5 square kilometers south of Plekhovo came under their control. Russians attack in Olgovka and in the area of Kremennaya, where a surrounded Russian grouping resists.

The intensity of Ukrainian attacks on the border of the Glushkovsky district decreased. Assaults of Ukrainian armored groups are repelled near Veseloe. Russian counterattacks repelled the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Medvezhie and mopped up the outskirts of the village.

The fortress of Ugledar is almost surrounded. The Ukrainian garrison, despite the increasing pressure, continues to resist. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have already lost the eastern part of the city and are cut off from supplies and support. Ukrainian servicemen who attempt to escape are coming under Russian fire, suffering heavy losses. Ukrainians hiding in high-rise buildings are smoked out with strikes by FPV drones.

Kiev is looking for culprits to punish. Amid the ongoing Russian offensive, the commander of the 72nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, responsible for the defense of the city, was dismissed. Earlier, part of the unit defending Ugledar was redeployed to the Kursk region. Under the extreme conditions of the enemy’s offensive, the commander of the brigade was replaced with an officer who spent the last year in the rear, hunting for cannon fodder on the streets of Odessa.

Meanwhile, the remnants of the 72nd Brigade, and other units, who were not allowed to withdraw from Ugledar, began to surrender in small groups. The Ukrainian garrison only has two options left — captivity in order to save lives or death in battle because sooner or later Ugledar will be completely mopped up by the Russian army.

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[jordaggy] 01/10/2024 09:33

Shocked and surprised? I am not.

No more cheap energy from Russia due to US sanctions = higher manufacturing costs = higher prices in shops = lower demand for goods. Simple stuff.

Factory production across the eurozone has shrunk at the fastest pace so far this year, according to the latest poll of purchasing managers.

Production, new orders, employment and procurement activity all fell at a faster rate last month, data firm S&P Global had reported.

It’s eurozone manufacturing PMI index has fallen to 45.0 in September, down from August’s 45.8, but slightly higher than the ‘flash’ reading last week.

That’s a nine-month low, and further below the 50-point mark that separates expansion from contraction.

The eurozone was dragged down by its two largest members; Germany recorded the worst decline in factory conditions for 12 months, while France’s manufacturing also contracted.

Spain, though, recorded its fastest growth in four months.

Dr. Cyrus de la Rubia, chief economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank, says:

“It is a real shame that Spain is only the fourth-largest economy in the eurozone.
While handling the global manufacturing downturn surprisingly well, Spain just does not have enough weight to lift the rest of the eurozone with it. The worsening industrial slump in Germany, for example, is too big for Spain’s momentum in September to make much of a difference.
According to our nowcast model, eurozone industrial production will likely drop by around 1% in the third quarter compared to the last one. With incoming orders plummeting fast, we can expect another dip in production by year-end.

[arja] 01/10/2024 08:55

Tygarreg,
so suck it up miseryguts and be less self centred. pay more for power to protect the planet or are you a thick climate change denier ? :) . wind and solar probably are the cheapest form but takes some years to get to that stage . The benefits from brexit might not even emerge this century and probably you are one of the many self harming brexiters on this thread indoctrinated by the right wing media !