Standard Life Aberdeen Share Discussion Threads

[spcecks] 19/11/2018 16:42

I can't abide her either and I'm Scottish.

[wllmherk] 19/11/2018 16:23

MCunliffe, Sturgeon calling for an independence referendum is hardly news. A blind man can see this was her aim from the moment the UK voted for Brexit. Her position and that of the SNP is a complete contradiction. They are outraged at Scotland being ripped out of the EU for fear of the economic damage this will inflict, yet, they want to tear up the union with an even greater trading partner in monetary terms, the rest of the UK. She is like those buffoons in charge of Labour, economically illiterate. Personally, I can't abide the woman and I'm a Scot.

wllm

[cyberian] 19/11/2018 12:31

Can someone explain to me what I have been pointing out for days on ADVFN trades on the sell side being exaggerated by huge multiples of between 200,000 and sometimes much much more. Not sure if the latest "trades most recent streaming" would influence more small investors to sell when seeing this discrepancy....a few minutes ago one can see alongside trade number 2580 on the latest streaming as sells total of 956,000 and yet if you go down to the next line you see against trade 2580 as showing total sells of 724,000!!! So we are seeing 222,000 extra sells coming from no where. This is really odd but such a pattern has been seen on ITV and a few others....so something adrift with ADVFN's software feed. Again it may have no influence on potential holders...but begs a question.

[mcunliffe1] 19/11/2018 11:48

FS1234,
I shall follow your instructions m’am.
Women Power.
Love it 😂

[watfordhornet] 19/11/2018 11:46

Don't know - have you read that? Have you checked the director dealing tab?

[david2013] 19/11/2018 11:36

I am considering buying into SLA largely as the dividend is so good. I have been invested in Phoenix for several years and they have proven a very safe and rewarding income stream. Have I read that a director has recently purchased shares in SLA?

[fionascott1234] 19/11/2018 11:21

MC: It would be extremely difficult to ensure that 2 people in the whole of the UK would agree to every element of the, "deal" on the table. So how about leaving the question to others and certainly off the table of the SLA board here.However, you've got to me on the Sturgeon tack. Do you realise that if Mrs. May completed a U-turn today and said, "we are REMAINING" Sturgeon would complete her own U-turn and vote against it!

[mcunliffe1] 19/11/2018 09:28

I was aghast when May's proposals were published. We ARE heading towards being a vassal state of the EU (in effect, that of Germany).
Businesses appear to welcome the agreement as it provides calm waters for at least a couple of years - four if today's reports in the Mail are to be believed.
I think "Project Fear" has won. The consensus seems to believe it's impossible to survive outside the EU. Yet, Japan, USA, India, Malaysia and other vibrant, expanding economies around the world seem to manage quite well.

I worry about the deals May will have to agree to with small parties in the commons in order to get their vote in favour of this sell-out. Bet Sturgeon calls for a new indep. ref. within a couple of years.

[cyberian] 19/11/2018 09:08

No shares bought back on Friday, so obviously a change of tactic/strategy? I somehow believe that a positive resolution (common sense) will prevail over the Brexit issue, and that this would see a marked rally or perhaps mild relief that we can get on with many other issues which are critical for the UK. The markets are not in panic mode just yet despite some weird behaviour by some who should know better.

[tornado12] 16/11/2018 16:28

It’s all down to commons vote on 7/12. Eu will ratify it in the next couple weeks and think it’s going to be a close run thing. Do you buy before or after the commons vote, that’s the conundrum for me

[cyberian] 16/11/2018 13:26

Was Merrill's purchase of 3 shares in buy-in program purely symbolic yesterday, or something afoot? Maybe they want to put the cash to better use as effect on share price minimal, although they can buy a lot more at rather low levels, which would appear to be a positive? They did suspend the earlier £175 million program recently but that was so as not to create an imbalance in the share price during a market sensitive period...only lasted a few days. Of course they may have had difficulty in securing buy volume they were targeting from collection of relatively small trades ... market buys and sells which are sometimes pretty well matched. I did trade out of some at 272p on Monday on my spare trading float and may add again once this Brexit lark settles down.

[kyoquot] 16/11/2018 11:07

"It'll cost me more for a pint of San Miguel, Bud or Corona however."

Real ale much better for real Brit anyway!

[mcunliffe1] 16/11/2018 09:26

As the pound falls in value against major currencies our international companies, earning the bulk of their income/profit abroad (in stronger currencies) should increase the "sterling" profitabilty and hence their share price.

It'll cost me more for a pint of San Miguel, Bud or Corona however.

[cyberian] 16/11/2018 08:14

foot...a new strategy, perhaps?

[foot in mouth] 16/11/2018 07:53

3 shares purchased for cancellation yesterday. Lol.

[tornado12] 15/11/2018 18:06

For sure UK stock market will suffer more than we’ve seen today so I will be looking for opportunities to invest long term with good dividend FTSE companies

[rathlindri] 15/11/2018 18:04

The country is stuffed. Self destruction

[tornado12] 15/11/2018 18:04

For sure Brexit is screwed up it would never work considering parliament cannot agree on anything and no party would have solved the challenge in this situation. It’s too polarised with a near 50:50 split also in parliament and our nation. Parliament is nothing but a kindergarten in the last few years. Disgraceful really !

[edmundshaw] 15/11/2018 17:49

Problem is the country is largely split in four plus some significant "others" - namely Tory or Labour, and Brexit or Bremain, with some added fun from the SNP and DUP. And no-one from any of the four main segments seems to want to vote in favour of any of the others. Labour are almost safer OUT of power, as the obvious split through their party can be papered over - they just have to vote "no" to anything the tories put forward. After all, a catastrophe for the country would potentially bode well for them electorally (which is obviously far more important to their self-interest).

But if Labour won power, they would be faced with the same democratic Gordian Knot. But hey, they would have power! Whoopee. :-(

[pal44] 15/11/2018 15:22

add that the whole world is laughing at us ...

[cyberian] 15/11/2018 10:07

2hoggy...fascinating and have no idea how this saga will play out...only there could be an unforeseen surprise, maybe? A General Election will not resolve anything as Labour supporters would sense that their Party wants to stay in and that would go down badly in many areas. The Tory Party would be split so the public would be confused as to supporting WHAT? As for SLA and the market, uncertainty will not be supportive in the near term with so many variances at play.

[2hoggy] 15/11/2018 09:56

We are not a sovereign nation as the ecj has overall control and as the majority of our laws are made by an unelected body and then passed down to us to implement.

If we stay you might as well get rid of the hop as they serve no use.

Eu parliament is not democratic and that's a fact,they cannot decide laws or rescinde them....

The commissars do that..

Just my opinion and all facts..

[cyberian] 15/11/2018 09:44

Not looking good after Raab has left.....totally confused, but expecting more twists and turns...what a mess!!!
On the face of it it now looks as though the Tories have self destructed, and will find it difficult or virtually impossible to find an alternative leader that they can unite behind. We may now end up with a very soft Brexit rather than a no deal as the House of Commons will not support the latter imho.

[cyberian] 15/11/2018 08:30

Over £575 million, or maybe a little more.

[timmy11] 15/11/2018 07:39

not many bought back yesterday

any idea how much is left to buy back?