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TDM850

Well thanks Biggles, George was asking about offers so that is one out there. If George wants broking services the same firm traders own offers online dealing at £9 per trade without any management fees. Touche pal

TDM850

jampratt Glaxo (GSK) is a good defensive stock to hold in this climate. steady yield and not too much movement (I have these in a Hargreaves SIPP). Oil stocks are quite high already if the us of a and maybe Germany really is heading for recession then demand for oil will most likely fall in my view. Also tobacco firms and household goods stocks like unilever (ULVR) or Reckitts (RB.).

sabretoothtigger

Monday August 22 

INTERIMS 
Amlin, Capital Drilling Ltd. (DI), Essar Energy , Petrofac Ltd. 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
OJSC Magnit GDR (Reg S) 

ANNUAL REPORT 
NWF Group 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
British Smaller Companies VCT 

EGMS 
ARC Capital Holdings Ltd. 

AGMS 
Aberdeen New Dawn Inv Trust, iEnergizer Ltd., Prospect Japan Fund Ltd. 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
British Smaller Companies VCT, London Stock Exchange Group 

Tuesday August 23 

INTERIMS 
Antofagasta, Cairn Energy, Capital & Regional, Chime Communications, Corin Group, G4S, H&T Group, John Wood Group, Pendragon, Persimmon, Severfield-Rowen, Source BioScience, Spectris, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Summit Corp., UK Coal, UK Commercial Property Trust 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Confidence Indicator (EU) (10:00) 
ZEW Survey (EU) (10:00) 
ZEW Survey (GER) (10:00) 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
eServGlobal Ltd. 

AGMS 
Livermore Investments Group Ltd., Omega Diagnostics Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BBA Mortgage Lending Figures (09:30) 

Wednesday August 24 

INTERIMS 
Admiral Group, Alpha UK Multi Property Trust, Ark Therapeutics Group, Axis-Shield, Carillion, Clarkson, Derwent London, Forth Ports, Hardy Oil & Gas, Henry Boot, Melrose, New World Resources A Shares, New World Resources NV A Shares, North Midland Construction, OJSC Magnit GDR (Reg S), Plaza Centers NV, Serco Group, Tullow Oil, Unite Group, WPP 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Microgen 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Acencia Debt Strategies Ltd., BBA Aviation, Brewin Dolphin Holdings, Capital & Counties Properties , Catlin Group Ltd., Communisis, CRH, Eurasian Natural Resources Corp., Fidessa Group, Henderson Opportunities Trust, InterContinental Hotels Group, Japan Residential Investment Co Ltd., Lancashire Holdings, London Capital Group Holdings, Matrix Income & Growth VCT, Maven Income & Growth 4 VCT, Maven Income & Growth 4 VCT 'S' Shares, Patsystems, Quadnetics Group, Rights & Issues Inv Trust Income Shares, Rotork, UK Select Trust Ltd., United Business Media Ltd., Witan Inv Trust, Xaar 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Canaccord Financial Inc. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
Durable Goods Orders (US) (13:30) 
House Price Index (US) (15:00) 
IFO Business Climate (GER) (09:00) 
IFO Current Assessment (GER) (09:00) 
IFO Expectations (GER) (09:00) 
Industrial New Orders (EU) (10:00) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 

GMS 
Acorn Income Fund Ltd., AIM Investments 

FINALS 
BHP Billiton 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
St Peter Port Capital Ltd. 

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
PHSC 

EGMS 
Aurora Russia Ltd. 

AGMS 
Abbeycrest, AIM Investments, Creightons, Latham (James), ProVen Growth & Income VCT, ProVen VCT, Provexis, Puma VCT V, Sutton Harbour Holdings 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Halma, St Peter Port Capital Ltd. 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Atkins (WS), Bloomsbury Publishing, City of London Group, Downing Distribution VCT 'D' Shares, Downing Distribution VCT 2 , First Property Group, Park Group, PHSC 

Thursday August 25 

INTERIMS 
Aegis Group, Aggreko, Amec, Aqua Resources Fund Ltd., Cathay International Holdings Ltd., Chaucer Holdings, Churchill China, Costain Group, Eurasia Drilling Co Ltd. GDR (Reg S), Glencore International, Hansteen Holdings, Hunting, Huntsworth, IMI, Johnston Press, Kazakhmys, Molins, Petropavlovsk, Premier Oil, Salamander Energy, SIG, Signet Jewelers Ltd., Sopheon, Sportech, STV Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Charter European Trust, Matrix European Real Estate Inv Trust Ltd., Maven Income & Growth 3 VCT 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 

Q2 
Signet Jewelers Ltd. 

GMS 
Niche Group (The) 

FINALS 
Diageo, Haynes Publishing Group, Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. 

EGMS 
Balmoral International Land, BlackRock Absolute Return Strategies Ltd. GBP Shares, RGI International Ltd. 

AGMS 
Balmoral International Land, Midas Income & Growth Trust, Puma VCT III, RedHot Media International Ltd (DI)., Trakm8 Holdings 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Haynes Publishing Group 

Friday August 26 

INTERIMS 
Aga Rangemaster Group, Independent News & Media, Lavendon Group, Marshalls, New Britain Palm Oil Ltd. (DI), T Clarke, Vimetco GDR NV GDR (Reg S), Yule Catto & Co 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Downing Planned Exit VCT 4, Downing Planned Exit VCT 5, Edinburgh UK Tracker Trust, Independent Inv Trust, Maven Income and Growth VCT 5, Reed Elsevier 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
GDP (Preliminary) (US) (13:30) 
U. of Michigan Confidence (Final) (US) (15:00) 

GMS 
Imaginatik 

FINALS 
MBL Group 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Abbey 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Aberforth Geared Income Trust, Access Intelligence 

EGMS 
Datang International Power Generation Co Ltd., Thames River Multi Hedge PCC Ltd. EUR Shares, Thames River Multi Hedge PCC Ltd. Realisation Shares, Thames River Multi Hedge PCC Ltd. USD Shares 

AGMS 
Naspers Ltd. ADR, Plant Impact, Prosperity Minerals Holdings Ltd. 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
GDP (output, income & expenditure) (09:30) 
Index of Services (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Aberdeen New Dawn Inv Trust, Heath (Samuel) & Sons, Kewill, Latham (James), Volex

plodder73

Just ventured into my first stab at share dealing. I am struggling with the concep of dividends. I understand that there is an ex dividend date when you have to have bought the shares by to get the dividned, but asssuming you have met this date is the dividend paid pre-rata?

eg is buy Tesco shares and I buy them 5days before the dividend date, do i the recieve 5/365ths of the dividend, I am guessing I must or else surely everyone would buy just befor the dividend. Can anyone help please, hope I have made sense!

Lokolo

plodder73 wrote: »

Just ventured into my first stab at share dealing. I am struggling with the concep of dividends. I understand that there is an ex dividend date when you have to have bought the shares by to get the dividned, but asssuming you have met this date is the dividend paid pre-rata?

eg is buy Tesco shares and I buy them 5days before the dividend date, do i the recieve 5/365ths of the dividend, I am guessing I must or else surely everyone would buy just befor the dividend. Can anyone help please, hope I have made sense!

Before the ex-dividend date or the dividend payment date?

If you bought 5 days before the ex-dividend date, you will receive full payment. If you buy after, I don't think you get anything.

If you buy before the ex-div date, but then sell before the div-payment date, you will receive dividend at some point (but not 100% on how that works).

plodder73

Lokolo wrote: »

Before the ex-dividend date or the dividend payment date?

If you bought 5 days before the ex-dividend date, you will receive full payment. If you buy after, I don't think you get anything.

If you buy before the ex-div date, but then sell before the div-payment date, you will receive dividend at some point (but not 100% on how that works).

Thanks for the reply I dont get it, if you but before the ex dividend date and get the full amount whats to stop everyone buying thousands and getting the dividend and then selling, am I being stupid, seems an easy way to make money and clearly its not that easy.

Optimist

plodder73 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply I dont get it, if you but before the ex dividend date and get the full amount whats to stop everyone buying thousands and getting the dividend and then selling, am I being stupid, seems an easy way to make money and clearly its not that easy.

The price tends to fall after the ex dividend date to take account of dividend paid

sabretoothtigger

The company is 100p before ex-div
They pay 4p dividend
The company is 96p after div

You dont gain anything, most likely you lose a little bit because the tax man takes some and you wont get the full 4p

Why would you bother? Sometimes the company grows more then expected and good news can means the share price grows in anticipation of a dividend rise next time and so on. Often companies deliberately put the results close to ex div dates

A good company should go from 96p to 100p every year and be able to afford to pay the dividend so you wont really lose out.
A very good company will double in price maybe

sabretoothtigger

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Monday August 29 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Pending Homes Sales (US) (15:00) 
Personal Consumption Expenditures (US) (13:30) 
Personal Income (US) (13:30) 
Personal Spending (US) (13:30) 

AGMS 
Avengardco Investments Public Ltd.GDR 

Tuesday August 30 

INTERIMS 
Ablon Group Ltd., Afren, Alpha Bank GDR (Reg S) USD, Bovis Homes Group, Bunzl, Computacenter, Cupid, Globaltrans Investment GDR (Reg S), International Public Partnerships Ltd., Irish Continental Group Units, John Laing Infrastructure, Kentz Corporation Ltd., Lamprell, Lombard Medical Technologies, Macfarlane Group, National Bank of Greece ADR, Paddy Power, Perform Group, Public Power GDR SA (Reg S), UTV Media 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Dewhurst, Dewhurst (Non-Voting) 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Schlumberger Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Business Climate Indicator (EU) (10:00) 
Consumer Confidence (US) (15:00) 
Economic Sentiment Indicator (EU) (10:00) 
FOMC Interest Rate Minutes (US) (19:00) 
PMI Retail (EU) (08:55) 
PMI Retail (GER) (08:55) 

Q2 
National Bank of Greece ADR 

GMS 
British Smaller Companies VCT 2, CSR, Firestone Diamonds, Ondine Biomedical Inc., Silverdell, Silvermere Energy 

FINALS 
Craneware, Mattioli Woods 

AGMS 
European Nickel, Ondine Biomedical Inc., Talisman VCT, Tangent Communications 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
M4 Sterling Lending (09:30) 
Trends in Lending (09:30) 

Wednesday August 31 

INTERIMS 
888 Holdings, Aer Lingus Group, Aminex, Asterand, Bwin.party Digital Entertainment, Cape, Chesnara, Goldenport Holdings Inc., Grafton Group Units, Hiwave Technologies, Integra Group GDR (Reg S), IP Group, JKX Oil & Gas, Mail.ru Group (Reg S), OJSC Pharmstandard GDR (Reg S), Omega Insurance Holdings Ltd. (DI), Phaunos Timber Fund Ltd., Picton Property Income Ltd, Pilat Media Global, Shaft Sinkers Holdings, Valiant Petroleum, Vislink 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Ingenious Entertainment VCT 2 'D' Shares, Throgmorton Trust 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
African Barrick Gold , Anglogold Ashanti Ltd., Arbuthnot Banking Group, Capita Group, Croda International, Delcam, Devro, FBD Holdings, Glanbia, Henderson Group, Hochschild Mining, John Wood Group, Jupiter European Opportunities Trust, Jupiter Fund Management , Kingspan Group, Low & Bonar, LPA Group, New World Resources A Shares, Ocean Wilsons Holdings Ltd., REA Holdings, Robinson, Serco Group, TUI Travel 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
City of London Inv Trust, Premier Energy & Water Trust 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Chicago PMI (US) (13:45) 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
Factory Orders (US) (15:00) 
GFK Consumer Confidence (GER) (07:00) 
International Reserves (EU) (11:00) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 
Unemployment Rate (EU) (10:00) 
Unemployment Rate (GER) (08:55) 

GMS 
PSG Solutions 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Dawson International 

EGMS 
SK Telecom Co Ltd. ADS, World Trust Fund 

AGMS 
Angel Mining , Coms 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Safestore Holdings 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
GFK Consumer Confidence (09:30) 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
BlueStar SecuTech Inc. (DI), Downing Distribution VCT 1, Downing Structured Opportunities VCT 1, Downing Structured Opportunities VCT 1 'B' Shares, Fletcher King, Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings, John Swan & Sons, Micro Focus International Plc, NCC Group, REA Holdings, Stagecoach Group, VP 

Thursday September 01 

INTERIMS 
China Food Co, Restaurant Group, ServicePower Technologies 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
British Portfolio Trust 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Promethean World 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
JPMorgan Claverhouse Inv Trust 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Auto Sales (US) (15:00) 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Construction Spending (US) (15:00) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
ISM Manufacturing (US) (15:00) 
ISM Prices Paid (US) (15:00) 
PMI Manufacturing (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Manufacturing (GER) (08:55) 
Productivity (US) (13:30) 

GMS 
Lipoxen 

FINALS 
Eaga, Go-Ahead Group, Hargreaves Lansdown, Hays, Monitise 

AGMS 
@UK, Amiad Filtration Systems Ltd., Amphion Innovations, Cohort, Consort Medical, D1 Oils 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Punch Taverns, Spirit Pub Company 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
PMI Manufacturing (09:30) 

Friday September 02 

INTERIMS 
EMIS Group, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Brunner Inv Trust, Charter International, Domino's Pizza UK & IRL, Oxford Technology 4 VCT 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Boeing Co 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Non-Farm Payrolls (US) (13:30) 
Producer Price Index (EU) (10:00) 
Unemployment Rate (US) (13:30) 

AGMS 
Cyril Sweett Group, M&G High Income Inv Trust Capital Shares, M&G High Income Inv Trust Income & Growth Units, M&G High Income Inv Trust Income Shares, M&G High Income Inv Trust Package Units, M&G High Income Inv Trust ZDP Shares 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
PMI Construction (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Cranswick, QinetiQ Group, RPC Group

KGPAB

Hi there, I am new to this. I would like to buy my son a very small amount of shares for his birthday. Can you tell me the best way of do this?