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[malcolm caton] 18/7/2024 16:46

Up 0.46% half what it was at lunch time.

OCDO.PLUS,HAT bigest risers,

RR>,RIO,BAB largest fallers.

WArm sunny day,The mower and I are struggling to cut the grass its grown to long after all the rain,

[philanderer] 18/7/2024 13:38

Skinny, yes I've seen two series of that one.

Interesting stats from this morning...

Britain’s worklessness crisis is “truly dire,” the Work and Pensions Secretary has said, as Labour faces the challenge of kick starting Britain’s employment market.

Liz Kendall blasted the latest jobs figures from the Office for National Statistics, which showed that nearly 9.4m people were classed as economically inactive in the three months to May.

Of those, more than 2.8m people remained out of work due to long-term sickness.

Both figures are close to record highs, while Britain’s unemployment rate remained at 4.4pc, its highest level in three years.

Ms Kendall said the UK was “standing alone as the only G7 country where the employment rate is still not back to pre-pandemic levels”.


Telegraph

[skinny] 18/7/2024 13:19

Phil - the Kominsky Method is a bit like that - you have to persevere with the first 2 episodes and then it very enjoyable.

[philanderer] 18/7/2024 12:57

Nice round of -2 for Justin Rose , clubhouse leader, but McIlroy struggling. Tricky conditions.

[philanderer] 18/7/2024 11:38

My wife persuaded me to continue watching the new BBC drama 'The Jetty' . Glad she did as it's got much better. I definitely called it wrong. One episode left to watch :-)

[aleman] 18/7/2024 11:35

Good morning. Sunny start but now high cloud and muggy.

Traffic has been really busy in the late afternoon here - people getting ready to rush off on holiday, perhaps?

[skinny] 18/7/2024 10:16

Good Morning.

Early sun now clouded over.

The roads were noticeably emptier this morning as the school holidays unwind.

[philanderer] 18/7/2024 10:13

Morning everyone.

A bright start to the day, sun coming out now.

Just DPLM in the red this morning in my lot, reporting an update which looks fine to me. Added a few.

[philanderer] 17/7/2024 18:13

Portfolio +0.13% $ earners to the fore AZN, BATS, BP, IMB, ULVR and VOD , 'engineers' the main fallers, DPLM (update tomorrow) , RSW, SMIN, ROR and HILS.

Lovely sunny day 23C , t-shirt and shorts. Sainsbury's this morning quite busy . People buying lots of clothing and the Argos department was busy . No food offers apart from use of the nectar card.

Even more blackberries on an afternoon walk :-)

Wok night with chicken, noodles and crunchy veg with an oyster and spring onion sauce. Plus a bottle of merlot.

[skinny] 17/7/2024 18:03

I finished up 0.03%.

For a change, a mainly sunny day - currently 23C, with 29C threatened for Friday.

[malcolm caton] 17/7/2024 17:49

Dowm 0.6%

Plus,BA.RR,.BABm worst fallers BP,best of risers.

[dr biotech] 17/7/2024 17:35

Much warmer here - air con in the car needed for the first time in a while.

Finished down about -0.12% SUP biggest loser, no real winners.

Some interesting stuff in the Kings speech, finally getting rid of the last remaining hereditory peers - think some of the previous appointments should be looked at in more detail, and I'd get rid the religious ones too.

[blueliner] 17/7/2024 17:18

-0.47% folio, [FTSE All-Share +0.15%]

Bad day, PLUS -4.05%, SUP, BA., ASY, LGEN, GSF, worse fallers, any number of stock specific reasons.
Only BT.A was a material gainer.

Sunny periods only, not wall to wall. Max 23C

[aleman] 17/7/2024 17:16

Almost -0.1%. A bit more movement underneath today, DEC up (again) and PLUS down.

Warm and sticky. Got a few small jobs done outside, including the front lawn. The grass surprised me by still being a bit damp and clogging mid-afternoon. 23.6C after 12.3C

[philanderer] 17/7/2024 13:56

Fears of a China trade war now

[philanderer] 17/7/2024 13:55

Global stocks have fallen amid fears that the US could launch a trade war with China.

Technology stocks have plunged - with Wall Street expected to open later with sharp losses - after reports that the Biden administration plans tighter import controls on companies that share chip-making technology with China.

The S&P 500 is on track to drop by 1pc and the Nasdaq by 1.6pc at the opening bell in New York.

Meanwhile the FTSE 100 was down 0.1pc, the Dax in Germany was down 0.7pc and the Cac 40 in France had dropped 0.6pc.

It follows an unconfirmed report that President Joe Biden is considering using a wide-sweeping regulation, the foreign direct product rule, to further restrict sales of critical chipmaking equipment to China, according to Bloomberg.

[philanderer] 17/7/2024 09:42

Morning everyone.

Beautiful blue sky day. It's going to be warm.

Awful week for the portfolio continues with the unchanged inflation number this morning meaning yet another delay for an interest rate cut. Hopeless.

[skinny] 17/7/2024 09:15

Good Morning - the sun is out.

This made me smile :-

[philanderer] 16/7/2024 18:47

Skinny, I've given up on 'The Turkish Detective' after 3 episodes :-)

Portfolio +0.06% ..TSCO, SBRY , MKS and DPLM the standout gainers , RIO the big loser after update.

Overcast with a couple of sunny breaks 20C , shorts back on. More blackberrying this afternoon. Two 1.5 litre ice cream containers collected, ready for freezer number two :-)

Slow cooker beef, carrots, celery, swede potatoes and dumplings. Bottle of red.

[deanforester] 16/7/2024 18:00

I'm down -0.283% on the day today (FTSE100m -0.221%).

Worst falls: UU. -3.67%, BHP -2.62% and RIO -2.33%.

Best rises: SMDS +3.45%, KGF +2.39% and TATE +1.22%.

Utilities and miners had a poor day. SMDS getting back where it should be vis-a-vis IPC.

Been to Tonbridge to see a friend for lunch. Quite a bit of rain going, but less coming back. I'm off to Cambridge tomorrow for a conference, Wednesday pm and Thursday am, with a dinner on Wednesday night. Normal service will resume on Tursday evening.

DF

[justiceforthemany] 16/7/2024 17:51

It is an England only problem at the moment. 10,000 GPs unemployed come August.
Some GPs are now driving taxis and working in Tesco!
Feel free to Google 'unemployed GP'.
Also what may seem trivial often isn't...that cough/cold could be lung cancer for example.
Look up Emily Chesterton also.

[wllmherk] 16/7/2024 17:31

Justice, I don't know which part of the UK you are from, but, here in Scotland there is a shortage of GP's, in fact there are increasing GP vacancies. I know of no GP's that are unemployed. I agree that the exhorbitant salaries paid to NHS Managers and Chief Execs is rediculous, but, Consultants in the hospitals are paid between £100-£150k, they often supplement their NHS earnings with private work, those that do will be earning over £200k pa easily. GP's are very well paid too, particularly those in partnerships. My wife was a Nurse Partner in her previous employment and was therefore privy to the GP's earnings of approximately £250,000 pa.

Using well trained Nursing staff to supplement the work of the GP's is a good thing in my opinion, I have had a very good service from the Nurse Practitioners in my local GP Practice. Lets be honest, most of the work done by GP's and Nurse Practitioners is fairly routine stuff, coughs, colds, infections etc, if using Nurses to deal with the routine frees up appointments for GP's to deal with the more complex conditions surely this can only be positive for patients.

wllm :)

[blueliner] 16/7/2024 17:20

-0.08% folio, [FTSE All-Share -0.17%]

BHP -2.6%, RIO -2.3%, ADVT, WDS, not a good day for resources.

SUP, CSN, PLUS, BA., SCLP, leading gainers.

Cloudburst during afternoon following last nights deluge. Max 19C

Also watching the Turkish Detective.

[aleman] 16/7/2024 17:16

Mrs A still has a friend in "make-work" (according to her) from home in the NHS because they can't afford to make her redundant (from an administration managers job). I'm baffled how you can't afford to make someone redundant. Surely it should be that you can't afford to pay people good salaries to fanny about at home!? She does do work from time to time. I've just not worked out what it is yet or how much. I must ask for more detail next time. It seems a funny carry on when I have 5 weeks between each scan and the subsequent results discussion - 9 weeks in the latest case after my first examining GP now wants to discuss my ultrasound, after a non-examining different GP discussed it with me and wondered why he'd been asked to intervene.

+0.2%. DEC perky again. Not much else happening.

There was a bit of sun briefly this afternoon that felt very warm but gloom and unexpected showers were more the order of the day. 21.0C after 14.3C.

[skinny] 16/7/2024 17:14

I finished up £30.05p.

A threatening afternoon, but we escaped with black skies and a few random drops of rain - now slowly clearing.