National Grid Share Discussion Threads

[nuttynige] 31/10/2014 20:13

North west England?

[lord gnome] 31/10/2014 18:43

LOL - tonio. My translation of keelstow's post now reads:
'Interim results due on Friday week'. Or next Friday as it is now. A 'week while Friday' is a new expression to me. What part of our green and pleasant land does that come from?

[tonio] 31/10/2014 15:40

I understood keelstow - I guess it was colonic irritation on behalf of Lord Tnome.

[skinny] 31/10/2014 12:53

RBC Capital Markets Sector Performer 924.75 925.00 925.00 Reiterates

[lord gnome] 30/10/2014 22:52

keelstow 30 Oct'14 - 22:00 - 3253 of 3253 0 0

half years week while friday


Could we have that again in English preferably, please keelstow?

[keelstow] 30/10/2014 22:00

half year's: week while friday

[lord gnome] 30/10/2014 18:15

Double-top or break out to fresh highs? I know which I'd like and given the way that Wall Street is powering ahead this evening I know which is more likely. Happy days!

[skinny] 28/10/2014 16:36

Uncrossed @900p - which is nice!

[tonio] 28/10/2014 10:07

surely a small cheer for touching 900 - talk about a resistance point!

[redartbmud] 15/10/2014 07:42

zulu

Smokin - but is that the weed or the possibility?

[zulu001] 15/10/2014 07:11

The others:

14 Oct 2014 National Grid PLC NG. Morgan Stanley Overweight 879.00 872.00 860.00 920.00 Reiterates
14 Oct 2014 Severn Trent PLC SVT Morgan Stanley Equal weight 1,919.00 1,891.00 1,755.00 1,910.00 Reiterates
14 Oct 2014 Pennon Group PLC PNN Morgan Stanley Equal weight 777.50 765.50 785.00 830.00 Reiterates
14 Oct 2014 United Utilities... UU. Morgan Stanley Equal weight 825.50 808.00 865.00 875.00 Reiterates

[skinny] 14/10/2014 10:43

MS have upgraded the utilities.

Morgan Stanley Overweight 868.75 872.00 860.00 920.00 Reiterates

[utyinv] 02/10/2014 16:56

This is well oversold. With issues around the world these defensive shares should be at least £10 / share.

Whether we get a Tory Government or Labour is irrelevant to NG because NG will not be affected by the threat of Labour on the big six energy co,s. However, the City were never able to fully understand the difference between NG, generation and distribution. Since privatisation NG cannot be held responsible for any power cuts resulting from insufficient generation. So if the big six and other energy companies cut back on investments and insufficient power stations are built the only ones to suffer are the customers and the Government.

NG have worked well with Labour and the Tories in bringing about market change for the benefit of the customer, something ofgem fail to reward!

[mechanical trader] 12/9/2014 12:53

12 Sep 2014 National Grid PLC NG. RBC Capital Markets Sector Performer 903.25 903.50 925.00 925.00 Reiterates

[tonio] 11/9/2014 11:06

Well, be a little realistic, he answered as the head of National Grid. He is not going to bite the hand that feeds him by criticising the government's energy 'policies'. His job as he says is to ensure that the grid has access to sufficient supply for ample ongoing provision to users. That the government has the policies it has on wind generation, closure of coal-fired stations as well as its historic failure to commit to new nuclear are problems he just has to deal with. They are indeed problems we all will have to deal with but it is the government's policies that have to be changed - which I guess could only happen with a radical change of government next year.

[pierre oreilly] 11/9/2014 09:58

Holliday was more like a politician than anything else. He just wouldn't answer what the plans are when there's not enough dispatchable capacity to meet a cold winter's evening demand. When all other options have been taken, then of course those with smart meters will be disconected, being the lesser of two evils. The other failure on his part, and a political camouflage imv, was his non seperation of dispatchable capacity and intermittent capacity - much of recent generation capacity spending has gone on intermittent capacity which, of course, is more a hindrance to grid engineers trying to balance demand in critical situations. It's a shame the public are effectively kept in the dark about the real situation.

[septimus quaid] 11/9/2014 00:53

Thought Holliday made a bit of a mess of the interview. At the end of the day, he is a petro-chemical man, he should have left it to one of his more knowledgeable underlings.

[m100] 10/9/2014 14:50

Steve Holliday was on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning (discussion of winter demand margin)

1hour 18 min 30 secs in

[uknighted] 02/9/2014 09:10

Hargreaves Lansdowne don't accommodate Scrip dividends.

[utyinv] 02/9/2014 01:33

M100,

It is a bit annoying that Stocktrade do not participate in the Scrip Divi.

I do not know if any other Institution who shareholder shares in ISA Nominee accounts participate in Scrip Divi's, but you are right Stocktrade do not at present.

[neddo] 01/9/2014 10:13

on our way to £10 ??