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[aleman] 09/11/2016 17:01

Openeed at -2.3%. Fell quickly to -3.0%. Closed at +0.1%.
Wow.

3.0C high. Miserable snowy sleety wet cold day. Dried up and sky cleared at dusk just in time to turn very cold. Now 1.5C and probably setting up for dangerously icy roads. I've put new tyres on drive wheels of both cars recently. Perhaps they should have been winter compound rather than all season.

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 16:10

Thanks Aleman, I feel much better about it now! ;-)

TATE & SSE joined the negative party big time!

[aleman] 09/11/2016 16:05

You are doing your bit, MrP. Just think - if there were no British kids to pay future taxes, they'd have to import even more! It's just a shame about all the paperwork generated with this stuff. If you have to set someone extra on to cope wih increasing paperwork, the government will claim it has created an extra job!

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 16:04

wllm, like a lot of these things, when attention moves to a particular group they seem to keep getting more and more "rights" added to the point it becomes totally unfair on their fellow workers and certainly no help to an employer. All this does is take us all back to square one where that group will have trouble finding employment. Of course, they have started with Paternity now and I don't think it will be long before we are in exactly the same situation there. What's next, people that like playing a certain sport should get paid leave to go off and do that for a few months? Very frustrating when I have trouble taking anything like my "entitlement" to annual holiday as I'm too busy trying to secure their future!

[wllmherk] 09/11/2016 15:53

that is a disgrace MrP, the public sector is similarly afflicted, my own view is maternity rights are far too generous. Personally, I would not employ a woman of child bearing age for the reasons you describe.

wllm

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 15:37

I can see why some companies try to avoid employing women of family rearing age. One of our workers fell pregnant last year and took their full 29 week paid maternity which was fair enough - we can claim most of that back. They then decided to have a full year off with the rest unpaid, which is fine except we then had to employ a replacement AND keep their job open for them in case they might come back. They did come back at the start of this year which is great, but I have only just realised they also accrue their full holiday entitlement whilst away on Maternity and whilst on their sabbatical so that was an additional 20 days PAID holiday this year. Then, to rub salt into the wounds, we discover we also have to give them another 8 days PAID holiday in lieu of last years Bank Holidays. So that's 56 days paid holiday this year! It's a good job only one of them fell pregnant!

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 15:14

We saw a high of 6.6°C yesterday but the low last night was a balmy 4.9°C so no sign of frost this morning. Feels cold today though as it's a bit grey and damp.

BRCI now up by about the same amount it was down first thing! The SIPP is still in the red but nowhere near as bad as it was this morning. SBRY and TCN the worst hit today, the former after a dividend cut so I'll have to get my rewards through vouchers and Nectar points!

[aleman] 09/11/2016 13:53

My lot nearly back to par.

Still sleeting at home. Only 2.3C. Been to Leeds and it's still snowing there as it's actually slightly colder!

[aleman] 09/11/2016 10:10

FTSE100 now up a few points. Mon£yam headline says gold flies on Trump win but it's eased to the same price as a few days ago. Election seems to have been a non-event and polls and papers were all wrong again. Maybe US markets will think differently.

[aleman] 09/11/2016 09:41

So, the FTSE100 is down all of 9 points after rising about 140 in the previous two sessions. So much for not liking Trump.

Now Punch and Judy are done, the market can start to concentrate on the Italian referendum on Dec 4th which could see banks collapse and the EU implode.

[aleman] 09/11/2016 09:23

My stuff now recovered nearly half the initial drop.

Prime People are another recruitment agency that say the UK market is softening but its Asian business is doing well. Too many small caps are saying the UK is slowing for it not to be slowing, imo.

Snow turned to rain. THe school run was horrible wet and cold. Ir is now 2.1C after 1.0C lst night. At least it is not windy.

[blueliner] 09/11/2016 08:42

Morning
It's happened again! Pundits all confounded.

Seems to be settling for the present down -1.5%. With the smaller caps being marked down disproportionately. Wary of weeks of aftershocks though.
There were/are 4 folio stocks I wanted to add to, but so far prices haven't fallen into the buying target zone..

edit : Old favourite A57 Snake Pass snowed in & was closed this morning.

[skinny] 09/11/2016 08:42

Good Morning.

Ongoing problems with my main PC so still using the snail powered backup.

After being down to @6516 pre-market, the FTSE doesn't look anywhere near as bad as most expected.

I wonder what the stones think about him using their song!

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 08:35

Eased to -1.49%

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 08:27

I suppose the good news is my monthly contribution is sitting in cash waiting to be invested this week. I did swap a couple of the funds around so it's being invested slightly different from this month as one or two have been underperforming lately.

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 08:21

Down 2.4% at the moment for the SIPP, pot slightly less.

[aleman] 09/11/2016 08:09

Down 3.0% for me on very low volume.

[aleman] 09/11/2016 08:02

Down 2.3% but hardly any trades reported.

[aleman] 09/11/2016 08:00

Looks like I'll start down 2-3%.

[aleman] 09/11/2016 07:45

Clinton just conceded. Both Houses of Congress look set to stay Republican.



China down 0.6%.

[mrphil] 09/11/2016 07:43

Morning All.

Tin hats time I guess.

[aleman] 09/11/2016 07:40

A little snow settling on cold surfaces here. We're low. Looks to be a couple of inches at Buxford so could be 4"+ on southern Pennines:



Trump edging it. Nikkei down 5%. ASX down 2%.

[blueliner] 08/11/2016 19:30

+0.17% today. [ FTSE 250 -0.06%].

Highest value risers : BLT +4.7%, BEZ +2.6%, NG. +1.1%, TLPR +2.7%, BRWM +2.2%.

Worst value fallers : IRV -3.4%, CSN -2.6%, HSD -2.8%, GVC -1.3%.

Bought back a few IMB as the share price fell this morning, they were disposed @ over £40 in Aug.

We always carry tubes of prescriptive Glucogel everywhere for low blood sugars, sachets of demerara sugar given away in coffee outlets are useful as well. I'm not the sufferer but have to deal with it. Would carry the monitoring kit for longer journeys.

Both my WIN 7 desktops have now been affected by MS attempts in the summer to coerce all users into WIN 10.
Despite spurning their overtures it affected normal WIN 7 updates, or the ability of the PC to receive them, let alone install.
One has already been fixed, the tech's say the second one which hasn't updated since July will need at the worst another factory reset.
All cost to the consumer, no comeback on MS.

[deanforester] 08/11/2016 18:18

font color=blue>I'm up +0.289% on the day (FTSE100 +0.532%).

Best rises: BLT +4.71%, S32 +2.41% and RIO +1.66%.

Worst falls: MKS -5.16%, IMB -3.00% and TATE -0.93%.

A good day for the miners - I don't have enough of them. MKS suffered from its interim report and news of store closures and changes to all-food format. IMB had good finals, raised its dividend by 10% and fell - typical performance on results.

Had a chat with a GP on the phone. we agree that it was a hypo and suggests that I should carry my blood test equipment with me, plus some sugary sweets. I have enough bags to do that.

DF

[aleman] 08/11/2016 17:51

I always find it remarkable how little it takes to right a hypo. No moe than 15-20g of sugar/carbs recommended, I believe, so you don't send blood sugar too high. It is not much. That's probaby less than a small bite of Mars bar.

Good luck with the PC, Skinny. Had that a few times over the years. Very annoying.

+0.1%.

Been sawing up some of those large branches. The older ones left in the corner seem drier than the ones from the top that I piled up and failed to burn. Decided to start cutting anythingi over 2-3 inches into small logs to dry out in the shed, ready for a small woodburner. I don't think there are many places it can go in the house (lots of glass) but technology is pretty flexible these days so we'll see.

6.1C. High grey cloud. Now 3C and damp,