Royal Bank Of Scotland Share Discussion Threads

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:45

I've added another small slice @ 307.88 average now 346.x

Oh dear you gotta laugh.

[begorrah88] 24/8/2015 14:43

I think it is just a case of more people earning out of crashing the markets than out of the markets moving up.

It has been actively encouraged and tolerated for far too long.

Now it is coming home to roost. So many tools that trigger other sell offs all tied to central machines.

They will need to uncouple them before they can start to rectify this.It'll be patched up for the afternoon and then forgotten about if things stabilise.

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:42

Some bargain stocks to buy but am running out of cash :(

[avatar333] 24/8/2015 14:39

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[shaws67] 24/8/2015 14:36

Holy moly, scary mary stuff.

[leedskier] 24/8/2015 14:34

No interest rate rises this year!

[leedskier] 24/8/2015 14:32

NASDAQ down 8%

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:31

DOW down 1000 pts!!

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:30

DOW down 900!!

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:23

Wall street is now suspended on my platform

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:23

S&P 500 futures suspended

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:22

This comes across as far worse than 2008 yet the economy is running OK this time and China is simply not growing as fast.

Panic selling in China really?

[shaws67] 24/8/2015 14:18

Bloody hell, hold onto your ass, this is mental. Just like 08 again :(

[jazza] 24/8/2015 14:16

There's nothing slow about this.

[smurfy2001] 24/8/2015 14:15

DOW down 800 points

This is like a slow crash..

[leedskier] 24/8/2015 13:24

RBS off 5%.

[avatar333] 24/8/2015 13:16

LOL

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[leedskier] 24/8/2015 13:15

EditWhipping boy

[leedskier] 24/8/2015 13:15

The City had always been the shipping boy.

[begorrah88] 24/8/2015 13:09

So now the problem isn't China but the selfish yanks again.

Those same yanks that had a steep ride up over the last yr or so while the FTSE has stagnated yet now we must suffer any loss of market confidence.

[jazza] 24/8/2015 13:09

The rouble is down 3% to below 71 to the dollar after oil prices continued to fall. Brent crude is down more than 4% at $43.50 a barrel, with US oil even lower. "Given all the negativity around the rouble, I can see only a one-way move down," said Konstantin Kostrub from ING Eurasia. "If Brent falls to $40 per barrel, I can see the rouble hitting 75 per dollar". The Russian currency was trading at 33 to the dollar just over a year ago.

[jazza] 24/8/2015 13:08

"We are not talking about another Asian financial crisis," says Jinny Yan, senior economist at Standard Chartered on World News. She points out that the Chinese government is running a fiscal surplus, has "plentiful" foreign currency reserves and is introducing more flexibility to the trading of its currency and has capital controls in place to stop speculators. She also reminds us that the Shanghai Composite Index is still 50% above where it was a year ago.

[leedskier] 24/8/2015 13:07

FTSE100 still falling. Now off nearly 4.4%.

[jazza] 24/8/2015 13:05

GLEN does have £30bn debt to service.

Who are the lenders? I suppose D4E might be talked about for the more heavily-indebted.

[leedskier] 24/8/2015 13:01

AV ... Yep ;