Logica Share Discussion Threads

[selborne_edge] 11/10/2009 21:10

AO - You could say that countries, such as Singapore and Switzland were too small to prosper individually but they are doing very well. What the UK needs to do is to live within its means and in doing so, produce a strong currency.

[a0502162] 10/10/2009 10:37

Well here is one glimmer of hope.

Gloomy predictions fail to take into account that it is world economic growth, not only US growth, which will dictate future stock returns. Every dollar of US international indebtedness is matched by a dollar of assets abroad. S&P 500 companies now obtain almost 50 per cent of their revenue outside the US and that share will most certainly rise as growth in the emerging nations continues to outpace that of the developed world.

Mmmmmmmmm.................!

[robwt] 09/10/2009 17:28

rnholl, what has any of this to with LOG??? it has everything to do with LOG, are LOG operating on another planet. Maybe the one you live on.

[a0502162] 09/10/2009 16:09

rnholl.

Just a bit of Friday banter..................so lighten up, and if you want to take the weight of your brain...........try standing up!

[rnholl] 09/10/2009 15:33

What has any of this got to do with LOG???

[a0502162] 09/10/2009 14:35

robwt.
I'm afraid I don't have the same faith you have in England.

I no longer live there and am very glad to be out, I have also travelled most of the world and have seen many "different ways of doing things" and found the English are very much stuck in a rut compared to many peoples of the world.

For me It would be impossible for a country like England to stand alone with it's defunct currency and become what it once was.

Why it won't join the Euro I will never know, after all it could still mint it's own Euros with queens head on one side, so what's the problem. Especially when you think the pound is a relatively recent currency, when you concider that our ancestors spent Roman, Viking, and all other manner of currencies in the past!

America might be the largest economy in the world for now, but not for much longer. It's car industry will go the same way as that of Englands. Natural resources are not that plentifull in the US, especially oil, when you compare it to Australia and South America. So in my view gradualy the options are running out for America as the grip of debt tightens round it's own wrists.

America will have to compromise, something it is not acustomed to doing and therefore not very good at.................all allegedly and in my own humble opinion obviously!!

[robwt] 09/10/2009 13:34

A0, England will always be great to me. I have lived in many countries, but England is the best. We have had some bad governments for the last forty years but we are still numero uno and things will be good again.

I respect your view on China and the European Union, but the US are the largest economy in the world, they have their own natural resources and I can't see any other country even coming close to ousting them off the top.

[a0502162] 09/10/2009 12:12

robwt.............history proves it...........all Empires, or what ever someone decides to call the US, come to an end.........slowly but surely. They never quite go away, look at the UK...............but they are never Great again!

[selborne_edge] 09/10/2009 09:41

The renewal of the CPS contract is good news. Since the orignal contract was signed in 2001, Logica has clearly done well.

[robwt] 08/10/2009 21:46

A0....I agree with one thing, if the Chinese dump those dollars we will all be in the brown stuff. It ain't gonna happen though, I think Uncle Sam is going to survive and go great guns in the next couple of years. But good luck with your investment.

[a0502162] 06/10/2009 17:53

Well my take is, it depends on China, it has been buying up cheap Dollars like they are going out fashion...................which they are..............but as key commodities especially oil are still priced in Dollars then what are the Chinese upto apart from being able to buy goods very cheaply?

I'm getting into some dual listed Chinese stocks...............nothing like backing a winner!

See..............not a secret at all. And I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking of it.........Just the only one on here!

[robwt] 06/10/2009 17:14

A0, tell us your strategy if it isn't top secret.

[a0502162] 06/10/2009 14:57

Well you could wait and see I suppose.......................or you can act on it!

[robwt] 06/10/2009 14:53

A0, There have been many reports in the last few years that a majority of OPEC and non OPEC members did not want the price of oil tied to the US dollar. After this report, the Saudis who are were great friends of the Bush administration deny there is even talk of such a thing. If it happens it will wrankle the USA but they have been the main cause of the erratic movements of the price of a barrel ever since the six day war.

We will all have to wait and see.

[a0502162] 06/10/2009 14:10

robwt.

Just incase you doubt me.

"Secret" agreement to ditch the dollar
- RBA raises Aussie rates to 3.25%
- UK industrial production data this morning

Good morning. The Conservative party's solution to the growing budget imbalance is to raise the retirement age to 66. Big-bonus bankers are not particularly worried by the proposal. Firemen are. The Independent reports that there is a secret agreement (well it was secret until this morning) between "Gulf Arabs, China, Russia, Japan and France... to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council." The Icelandic krona is not particularly worried by the proposal. The US dollar is.

[robwt] 06/10/2009 13:57

Bust and boom.

[rogsim] 03/10/2009 12:10

Comment in The Independent:

[a0502162] 03/10/2009 08:07

Way off the mark.
The pound can not compete in a global economy, China will be the new America in terms of trade etc. The EU will be the second largest economy followed by Japan after a recovery there.

Russia will also be a key player.

All this because America, with the massive debt it owes will be in the pocket of the chinese as it's the Chinese who loaned America most of the money!
In fact China threatened to call some of it in recently, I guess to prove a point!!

Check it out!

[robwt] 02/10/2009 17:37

I agree with some of your points, but we would be crazy to join the euro. The UK should without doubt stay with the pound, believe the BOE, the pound will strengthen big time in the next 12 months.

It is almost certain that the EU will be weakened greatly by all it's struggling economies, the Euro is grossly overvalued.

[a0502162] 02/10/2009 14:18

Basicaly he's right, rely on one countries consumers, the US, and you have a problem. Same goes for a currency, the dollar.

Change is needed, oil, gold, etc should be priced in a neutral currency or a balance of 3. That way the sharp rises and declines would be limited.

Something else, the quicker the UK joins the Euro the better (at a much better rate than it is now) otherwise it's "welcome to the third world for you guys".

[robwt] 02/10/2009 13:59

What are your thoughts on the IMF statement.

[a0502162] 02/10/2009 13:26

Glad you made a profit it must be a pleasant change for you, it's always exciting the first time!

Dream and follow are two things I have never done.

I think I have said before that statisticaly most TIPS in the papers etc go down and most of the sell recommendations go up..........so why would I follow them.

I also thought you said you don't gamble and your not short term, so why the PUTS?

When you said you don't make mistakes.......how come you've been sitting on a loss at LOG since 2006?

Nothing you say adds up does it?

[robwt] 02/10/2009 12:59

Yes, quite correct sir. I don't make mistakes, I have just taken a nice profit from those put options. A profit you could only dream of while you follow those old newspaper and investor chronicle tips..

Logica are heading down, you should start thinking of getting back in mate, 115p looks likely.

[a0502162] 01/10/2009 17:09

Did you spell PUTZ correctly?

[a0502162] 28/9/2009 12:43

No thanks.

Prefer real shares not gambling chips.