Northern Foods Share Discussion Threads

[hazl] 06/7/2017 18:49

Skinny looks like a cornflower to me.
They are a lovely blue!

[deanforester] 06/7/2017 18:35

I'm down -0.244% on the day today (FTSE100 -0.412%).

Worst falls: CPG -1.87%, RB. -1.52% and AZN -1.49%.

Best rises: LLOY +1.51%, S32 +1.39% and MKS +1.28%.

The gentle fall continues. I must look at how I am doing over the last few years.

It has been up to 26°C this afternoon when I last looked. We had about 3 spots of rain after breakfast, but none of the forecast heavy showers. Still a bit of cloud about, but nothing looking threatening.

Curry at Wetherspoons for lunch. Otherwise I've been wtaching the Test. Jo Root had a reprieve on 149, when he was caught off a no-ball. Up in the 180s now at the close. Moeen is with him on 50-odd. Lets see how we do tomorrow.

DF

[aleman] 06/7/2017 18:32

Caught the edge of a storm for a few minutes. Not much rain but better than nothing.

[blueliner] 06/7/2017 17:38

-0.29% for the Folio. [FTSE250 -0.42%]

Worst value fallers : ASY -1%, BGO -1.6%, GSK -1.1%, CNCT -2.75%, NG. -1%.

Highest value riser : LLOY +1.5%.

Temps between 27 & 29C, no sign of any relief tonight.

[mrphil] 06/7/2017 17:23

A bit bigger than anything we get involved with. Sounds fun though!

[freddie ferret] 06/7/2017 17:16

Electric scooter (not disabled motability scooter) as in you stand on it with one foot.
They have a couple of small 4.5ah 12v lead acid batteries wired up in series. Lithium should give more grunt for longer with less weight.

The best I have seen cheap so far are 4000mah at 3.7v for £5.99 for 2.


I know someone with an electric bike that is good for 35 miles at up to 23mph.

[skinny] 06/7/2017 17:09

My SIPP finished down 0.12%.

Very close here with the possibility of some rain @10pm.

[mrphil] 06/7/2017 17:05

freddie, our industry uses mainly nickel metal hydride although we are starting to see Lithium ion creep in to some high end emergency lighting units. What are you trying to run?

[freddie ferret] 06/7/2017 16:59

Mixed.

Weather also mixed, cooler and overcast a lot of the time. May just have heard a distant rumble of thunder.

Anybody know of a cheap source of Lithium ion batteries? Do not need to be new, but working. Need to make up a fairly high capacity battery.

[mrphil] 06/7/2017 16:57

A pleasant change to see both ending the day positive! SIPP +0.12% with top risers LLOY, BRCI & BDEV and the pot +0.23% thanks to LLOY, LGEN & RR.

New series of Who Do You Think You Are with Charles Dance tonight.

[mrphil] 06/7/2017 15:32

Perfect day to be out on the boat, we need this to carry on until at least Sunday night!

Aleman, I think TSLA shares were so hyped up they could only go one way so it could only end in tears. Pity as I think the company is doing an excellent job and the products seem excellent.

Looks like I did well to grab some euros this morning!

[skinny] 06/7/2017 14:59

We now have no rain forecast at all - should make sleeping tonight interesting!

[aleman] 06/7/2017 14:45

The thunderstorms are over East Anglia and the North Sea. It only turned warm here when the sun came out after lunch. It's a bit sticky and making for grouchy kids, though. 26.9C and warming.


Just starting to get the firt Q2 updates in the US and they're wonderful - if you wonder at missed revenue forecasts that were already poor.

-16%



-1.6%



-9%



Buckle beat consensus with -5.8%, though.

[mrphil] 06/7/2017 14:24

They are impressive figures from M-B, most markets seeing an increase.

[mrphil] 06/7/2017 14:20

A couple of reasonable risers today but GSK has taken a bit more of a tumble putting the SIPP just into red territory again.

Very hot here again, I'm guessing hotter than yesterday. We had lunch indoors as the granddaughter had been out in the garden all morning and was pretty tired so it was easier to keep her up at the proper table!

[aleman] 06/7/2017 14:20

Bumper Merc sales thanks to a Chinese boom. Chinese sales rose 34.5% to 292,679. USA rose 1.8% to 28,994. That's right, Chinese sales were more than TEN times US sales and 25.5% of the total. Not bad for an economy that is supposedly not growing fast enough.

[aleman] 06/7/2017 14:02

I didn't disagree! I just pointed out that flat GDP per capita through Q1 that saw producivity fall through that quarter should see a fall in GDP per capita in Q2 - well, at least as it kicks off.



Corn crops killed in South Dakota by June 23rd frost.

[freddie ferret] 06/7/2017 13:30

According to yesterdays Telegraph it seems Craig Mackinlay (MP Thanet South) has elected for jury trial and should be appearing at Southwark Crown Court on the 1st of August together with his former agent Nathan Grey, and the Little lady.

Aleman as I explained in my previous post there are good reasons for productivity falling. It is all down to a desire for cheap labor and bad management IMHO.

[aleman] 06/7/2017 13:28

I see one of my oft repeated graphs has gone mainstream:

[aleman] 06/7/2017 13:14

Gross domestic product (GDP) per head in the UK was unchanged (0.0% growth) compared with the previous quarter

... since when, productivity has fallen.