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BHP Billiton/South 32

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  • gadgetmind
    gadgetmind Posts: 11,130 Forumite
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    However, you could nominate to sell (almost) immediately, so you (and those trackers) effectively got an in specie dividend that they then turned into a cash one.
    I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.

    Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
  • Glen_Clark
    Glen_Clark Posts: 4,397 Forumite
    gadgetmind wrote: »
    However, you could nominate to sell (almost) immediately, so you (and those trackers) effectively got an in specie dividend that they then turned into a cash one.

    Well if the trackers are all selling and crashing the price shouldn't we be buying :)
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair
  • gadgetmind
    gadgetmind Posts: 11,130 Forumite
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    I decided to use the free selling service as my wife only holds a few hundred shares so the South32 holding wasn't going to be worth much.
    I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.

    Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
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