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Market took a bit hit just before closing on Friday - any idea if its temporary ? :j

sabretoothtigger

USA closed even further down by 9pm so no that is not likely. ECB member resigned in disgust, further instability sways market towards bonds to the extent they accept 1.9% return over 10 years.

Clearly prices are not correct with inflation about 5%, bond holders will suffer losses in future but right now stock holders good faith has left them poorer and looking foolish

Monday September 12 

INTERIMS 
Global Ports Investments GDR (REG S), Hellenic Carriers Ltd., InternetQ, NetDimensions Holding Ltd. (DI), Waterlogic 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
New Europe Property Investments, Rank Group 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
EMIS Group 

GMS 
Healthcare Locums, Xtract Energy 

FINALS 
Murgitroyd Group, Pan African Resources 

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
News Corp. 'A' Shares, News Corp. 'B' Shares 

EGMS 
Invesco Property Income Trust Ltd., JSC Kazkommertsbank GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Ltd. Sterling Part Shares, e-Therapeutics, Ecofin Water & Power Opportunities, Invesco Property Income Trust Ltd. 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Associated British Foods 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Creston, Greene King 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
News Corp. 'A' Shares, News Corp. 'B' Shares 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
CGPI (JPN) 
Tertiary Industry Index (JPN) 


Tuesday September 13 

INTERIMS 
BrainJuicer Group, Cello Group, Charlemagne Capital Ltd., Fairpoint Group, Hilton Food Group, InterQuest Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Fresnillo, Mondi 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Price Index (FRA) (06:30) 
Current Account (FRA) (07:45) 
NFIB Small Business Optimism (12:30) 
Import and Export Price Indices (US) (13:30) 
Treasury Budget Statement (US) (19:00) 

GMS 
Colefax Group 

FINALS 
Abcam, Ashmore Group, Town Centre Securities 

IMSS 
IG Group Holdings 

EGMS 
Argo Real Estate Opportunities Fund, OJSC Rosneft GDRS (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Colefax Group, Downing Distribution VCT 1, First Property Group, Harvard International, Liontrust Asset Managament, Oxford Instruments, Prosperity Voskhod Fund Ltd. 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Price Index (09:30) 
Retail Price Index (09:30) 
RICS Housing Market Survey (09:30) 
DCLG House Prices (09:30) 
Trade Balance (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
DS Smith 

Wednesday September 14 

INTERIMS 
Bond International Software, Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (DI), M. P. Evans Group, Modern Water, Next, OJSC Cherkizovo Group GDR (Reg S), Surgical Innovations Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
St James's Place 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
32Red, Antofagasta, Baronsmead VCT 3, Baronsmead VCT 4, Baronsmead VCT 5, Berendsen, Clarkson, Computacenter, Cookson Group, CPP Group, Edinburgh US Tracker Trust, Fyffes, GlobeOp Financial Services SA (DI), H&T Group, International Public Partnerships Ltd., Irish Continental Group Units, Logica, Molins, Pennant International Group, Rathbone Brothers, Restaurant Group, Savills, Stadium Group, T Clarke, Tamar European Industrial Fund Ltd., Temple Bar Inv Trust, Tex Holdings, Tikit Group, Treatt, UTV Media, Xstrata, Zotefoams 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Unilever 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Alpha Pyrenees Trust Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Industrial Production (JPN) 
Capacity Utilisation (JPN) 
Industrial Production (EU) (10:00) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 
Business Inventories (US) (13:30) 
Producer Price Index (US) (13:30) 
Retail Sales (US) (13:45) 
Manufacturing Inventories (US) (15:00) 
Retail Sales Inventories (US) (15:15) 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 

GMS 
Medicsight, Northern 3 VCT 

FINALS 
Avingtrans, Barratt Developments, Brooks Macdonald Group, CPL Resources, Galliford Try, Hargreaves Services, RSM Tenon Group 

EGMS 
JSC Sitronics GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Artemis Alpha Trust, Datatec Ltd. (DI), ITM Power, Minera IRL Ltd., Mwana Africa, Northern 3 VCT, Stagecoach Theatre Arts 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Claimant Count Rate (09:30) 
Unemployment Rate (09:30) 
Average Weekly Earnings (09:30) 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Anite, Baronsmead VCT, Baronsmead VCT 2, Best of the Best, Betfair Group, Cash Converters International Ltd. Units, Colefax Group, Dart Group, Falkland Islands Holdings, Goodwin Plc, Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd., Henderson Smaller Companies Inv Trust, Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., Jacques Vert, Kesa Electricals, Medusa Mining Ltd. (DI), Renishaw, Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust, Stewart & Wight 

Thursday September 15 

INTERIMS 
Amiad Filtration Systems Ltd., Brightside Group, Elektron Technology, HaloSource Inc. (Reg S), Kingfisher, Kiotech International, ReThink Group, Trap Oil Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Anglo American, Matrix Income & Growth VCT, Spirent Communications 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Canaccord Financial Inc., Canadian General Investments Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ECB Report (EU) (09:00) 
Harmonised Competitiveness Indicators (EU) (09:00) 
Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (EU) (10:00) 
Consumer Price Index (EU) (10:00) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
Consumer Price Index (US) (13:30) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
Current Account (US) (13:30) 
Balance of Payments (US) (13:30) 
Empire State Manufacturing Survey (13:30) 
Industrial Production (US) (14:15) 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Philadelphia Fed Index (US) (15:00) 
Capacity Utilisation (US) (16:15) 
Industrial Production (US) (16:15) 

GMS 
Agua Terra Ltd. (DI), Gulfsands Petroleum, Hunting 

FINALS 
Centaur Media, Dunelm Group, Kier Group, Quayle Munro Holdings 

IMSS 
Kesa Electricals 

AGMS 
Anite, Best of the Best, Braveheart Investment Group, Downing Absolute Income VCT 2, Games Workshop Group, Kesa Electricals, Probability, Prosperity Russia Domestic Fund Ltd., ReNeuron Group 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Booker Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Internet Retail Sales (09:30) 
Retail Sales (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Robert Wiseman Dairies 

Friday September 16 

INTERIMS 
Uniq, Work Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
4Imprint Group, Delcam, Ferrexpo, Informa, Moneysupermarket.com Group, Morgan Sindall Group, Pearson, Psion, Witan Inv Trust 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
M Winkworth 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (EU) (10:00) 
Current Account (EU) (09:00) 
New Car Registrations (EU) (10:00) 
U. of Michigan Confidence (Prelim) (US) (15:00) 

GMS 
Aberdeen Development Capital 2010 ZDP Shares, Aberdeen Development Capital 2012 ZDP Shares, Northern AIM VCT 

FINALS 
Asian Citrus Holding 

IMSS 
DTZ Holdings 

AGMS 
Carclo, DTZ Holdings, Ingenious Media Active Capital Ltd., Pathfinder Minerals , Real Estate Credit Investments PCC Ltd 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Latchways, New Century AIM VCT

Ark_Welder

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Clearly prices are not correct with inflation about 5%, bond holders will suffer losses in future...

Remember that 5% is a historic figure whereas bond yields to an extent reflect expectations (and sometimes fearful ones...),

US inflation came in at 3.6% for July. August figure will be released on Thursday


[Edit]

UK inflation due on Tuesday

zildjian

Aviva? Whats peoples views of them? Currently got a low price and have shown to always pay dividends. Im assuming their knock in price is due to the upcoming greece predicament.

-Just trying to give the thread some life!

DJFearRoss

Hi. Trying to get into shares, probably from TDwaterhouse (heard it's popular).
To get some practise in, i did a fantasy trader and bought the following;

Holding Name : 32Red
Qty : 2517
Mkt Price : 0.38
Change Today : 0.00
Qty Value : £930.53
Profit ⁄ Loss : -69.22

There is a £11.95 commission charge and 0.5% stamp duty. After buying I couldn't work out why the loss was £69.22 until I was informed of "bid-ask spread"! (at 2p) I'm just really confused why no-one really mentions this when it takes a huge slice of the profits of any shares. Am i missing something here?

Just_landed

I've used this old example before but applies to the way you are thinking :-

The buy price of BP shares @16:30 today was 449.6 pence. So buying £200 worth would work out like this 42 shares x 449.6 pence which = £188.832 x (0.5% = £0.95) = £189.78 + £10.00 dealing charge iii = £199.78 to buy 42 shares. Divide 199.78 by 42 and each share stands @ £4.76 . When you sell the shares you would need to get £209.78 divide by 42 = £5.00 a share to break even because of the dealing charge to sell of £10.00 with iii. So each share would have to rise by 50 pence to get your money back, which is quite a big increase.
The more shares you buy the lower the dealing costs per share.

barak

DJFearRoss wrote: »

Hi. Trying to get into shares, probably from TDwaterhouse (heard it's popular).
To get some practise in, i did a fantasy trader and bought the following;

Holding Name : 32Red
Qty : 2517
Mkt Price : 0.38
Change Today : 0.00
Qty Value : £930.53
Profit ⁄ Loss : -69.22

There is a £11.95 commission charge and 0.5% stamp duty. After buying I couldn't work out why the loss was £69.22 until I was informed of "bid-ask spread"! (at 2p) I'm just really confused why no-one really mentions this when it takes a huge slice of the profits of any shares. Am i missing something here?

You can check roughly what the spread is before you deal. See the 'Bid' and 'Offer' prices here -

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/summary/company-summary.html?fourWayKey=GI000A0F56M0GBGBXAIMI

highhorse_2

zildjian wrote: »

Aviva? Whats peoples views of them? Currently got a low price and have shown to always pay dividends. Im assuming their knock in price is due to the upcoming greece predicament.

-Just trying to give the thread some life!

Unfortunately I think you will find the dip in Aviva price is to do with the shift in regulation for Insurance Providers. The government will be preventing Insurers from selling on your crash/claim data to lawyers to try and cut back on the claim culture. This will wipe at least 4% off the profits figures for any insurer.

Take a look at Admiral prices - they have bombed since the announcement

highhorse_2

Just_landed wrote: »

I've used this old example before but applies to the way you are thinking :-

The buy price of BP shares @16:30 today was 449.6 pence. So buying £200 worth would work out like this 42 shares x 449.6 pence which = £188.832 x (0.5% = £0.95) = £189.78 + £10.00 dealing charge iii = £199.78 to buy 42 shares. Divide 199.78 by 42 and each share stands @ £4.76 . When you sell the shares you would need to get £209.78 divide by 42 = £5.00 a share to break even because of the dealing charge to sell of £10.00 with iii. So each share would have to rise by 50 pence to get your money back, which is quite a big increase.
The more shares you buy the lower the dealing costs per share.

Thank you for this - I know it wasn't intended to me, but it really helped!

Mevs01

I have been investing in Aviva on the Halifax Share builder they do pay good dividends with the 2nd one coming up soon.Shares are for the long term so Aviva i will keep building up i'm sure the share price will increase over the next couple of years, keep on re investing the divi and that will decrease your break even point.Good info highhorse did not know that bit. The interim results were positive so i am expecting another good report in September. The share price should rise a little in run up to ex dividend date, before decreasing when paying dividends.