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Charlton_King

Charlton_King wrote: »

My elderly father has asked me to check with you nice people whether any lots of his old, low value shares (he used to buy them almost on a whim) still might have any worth over and above curiosity level!

He holds certificates for the following:

Scoot.com
COE Group
XKO Group
Provalis
Minmet

I'm assuming these are all liquidated companies or the like but I would be grateful if anyone could shed light.

Bump......

sabretoothtigger

Never heard of them, try google

http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=LON:TIR&authuser=0

marvin

Charlton_King wrote: »

He holds certificates for the following:

Scoot.com
Sold mainly to Coe Group can find no record of what happened to the bit they did not sell to stem major losses.
COE Group
Private company enquire with them
XKO Group
Private company enqire with them
Provalis
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/provalis-goes-into-liquidation-after-running-out-of-cash-411017.html
Minmet
Irish company
Share holders not happy
http://www.minmet.info/

I'm assuming these are all liquidated companies or the like but I would be grateful if anyone could shed light.

See response above from a 5 minute Google may not be the right ones though.

Biggles

Charlton_King wrote: »

Scoot.com
COE Group
XKO Group
Provalis
Minmet

Some of these were 'the next big thing' of past years. But none of them now have a London Stock Exchange listing.

Provalis eventually sold their main business and went into liquidation in 2006. In their statement of intent, they said 0.4p per share should be available for distribution to shareholders in late 2007.

Scoot was sold to BT in 2002 for £5m, which seems to have been something like 7p per share, in cash.

XKO Group became Revenue Assurance Services, then were taken over by Spice Group in 2007 (for every 100 RAS shares, there would appear to have been £125.50 plus 13.09 SPI shares paid) and Spice Group were taken over in 2010 by Cilantro for 70p a share in cash (so it looks like the net effect of all this should have been the eventual receipt of about £134.66 per 100 original XKO shares).

COE Group was bought by Digital Barriers in 2010 for 9p per share in cash.

Minmet was bought by Fox Petroleum in 2009, apparantly all in Fox shares. It seems to have a US 'Pink Sheets' listing, currently at the grand share price of $0.013.

JimmyShare

Hi, I am looking for the cheapest way, name of company etc. to deal 'Pink Slips' on the American stock exchange. can anyone help?

sabretoothtigger

Dont do it ? Very cheap, saves alot of money wasted

donal_f

I wonder if anyone can help me?

My wife and I had a Witan Jump Savings account for a few of our nieces and nephews. For a very low dealing charge and no dealing charge we were able to pay in £30 a quarter and invest in one of the Witan Equity Investment Trusts. Our plan was to run these accounts until each of them were adults. So with 18 or 20 years of compound growth and increasing the contributions each year it should amount to a reasonable amount eventually.

However, before Xmas Witan said that they're adding an annual £40 charge. Given a couple of the accounts only have £200 to £300 in them that charge is a killer, so I closed the accounts.

Since, then I've been looking for a similiar account, but without luck. I thought I could do it with TDWaterhouse's Regular Investor option - but although they told me otherwise - I discovered after opening that a Designated Account can't use this feature. I also considered Selftrade as I already have my ISA there and pay the £42 annual charge. However, each Designated Account will incur another £42 charge. Again, this is prohibitive.

I've tried googl'ing for other options - but have failed to find any. Do any of you more resourceful experts have any suggestions? In these days of high inflation, I'm keen to put the money in Equities rather than a savings account. But paying high charges defies the point.

Thanks.

stphnstevey

Hi

I have been looking for looking for the cheapest share dealing within a SIPP or ISA. I need these to include overseas funds and trading small volume (£1000 every month or so, but retaining long term).

So far found

X-O.co.uk cheapest ISA

SIPP Deal or Interactive Investor for SIPP

Has anyone used these or knows of any cheaper share dealing for my circumstances?

Thanks

sabretoothtigger

Some funds will allow small regular contributions without fees. Try HL

xo does uk only

Monday April 16 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (EU) (10:00) 
Business Inventories (US) (13:30) 
Manufacturing Inventories (US) (15:00) 
Retail Sales (US) (13:45) 
Retail Sales Inventories (US) (15:15) 

FINALS 
APR Energy, DDD Group, Specialist Energy Group 

IMSS 
Amec, Dragon Oil 

EGMS 
Metal-Tech Ltd. 

AGMS 
Sagentia Group 

Tuesday April 17 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Building Permits (US) (13:30) 
Capacity Utilisation (US) (16:15) 
Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (EU) (10:00) 
Housing Starts (US) (13:30) 
Industrial Production (US) (16:15) 
New Car Registrations (EU) (10:00) 
Wholesale Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
ZEW Survey (EU) (10:00) 
ZEW Survey (GER) (10:00) 

FINALS 
M. P. Evans Group, NetDimensions Holding Ltd. (DI), Northbridge Industrial Services, Walker Greenbank 

ANNUAL REPORT 
G4S, Huntsworth 

IMSS 
Man Group 

EGMS 
JSC Sitronics GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Baronsmead VCT 4, Global Ports Investments GDR (REG S), Herald Inv Trust, Perform Group, Tiszai Chemical Group GDR (Reg S) 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Burberry Group, Daily Mail and General Trust, Marks & Spencer Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Price Index  (09:30) 
Retail Price Index (09:30) 

Wednesday April 18 

INTERIMS 
Spirit Pub Company 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
News Corp. 'A' Shares, News Corp. 'B' Shares 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Albemarle & Bond Holdings, James Halstead, NB Global Floating Rate Income Fund Ltd GBP 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 

FINALS 
Hightex Group, Integra Group GDR (Reg S), OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works GDR (Reg S), Tesco 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Dialight 

IMSS 
Computacenter, GKN, Hunting 

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Old Mutual 

AGMS 
Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income Trust, Athelney Trust, Bunzl, Dialight, Dragon Oil, Drax Group, Hunting, Moneysupermarket.com Group, Octopus Titan VCT 5, Promethean World, Zenergy Power 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Speedy Hire 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
claimant count rate (00:00) 
Unemployment Rate (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Baronsmead VCT 5, Lancashire Holdings 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Aga Rangemaster Group, Aggreko, Arbuthnot Banking Group, BAE Systems, BBA Aviation, British Smaller Companies VCT 2, Burford Capital Ltd., Capita, Clarke (T.), Costain Group, Downing Planned Exit VCT 2011 (General Shares), Downing Planned Exit VCT 2011 (Low Carbon Shares), Downing Planned Exit VCT 2011 (Structured Shares), Dunedin Income Growth Inv Trust, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, International Personal Finance, Johnson Service Group, Kazakhmys, Legal & General Group, Microgen, Molins, Norish Units, office2office, Old Mutual, Petrofac Ltd., Resolution Ltd., Secure Trust Bank, Smith & Nephew, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, StatPro Group, Taylor Wimpey, Tullow Oil, Unite Group, Vitec Group 

Thursday April 19 

INTERIMS 
Debenhams, WH Smith 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
IndigoVision Group 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Caterpillar Inc. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
Existing Home Sales (US) (15:00) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
Leading Indicators (US) (15:00) 
Philadelphia Fed Index (US) (15:00) 

Q4 
OAO Severstal GDR (Reg S) 

GMS 
Telfonica Czech Republic A.S. GDR (144A/REG S) 

FINALS 
HydroDec Group, International Public Partnerships Ltd., OAO Severstal GDR (Reg S), Phaunos Timber Fund Ltd., Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings, Spectra Systems Corporation 

ANNUAL REPORT 
LSL Property Services, PV Crystalox Solar 

IMSS 
Hammerson, Hargreaves Lansdown, International Power, Lavendon Group, Persimmon 

EGMS 
Mwana Africa, Ryanair Holdings 

AGMS 
African Barrick Gold , Amec, Anglo American, Anglo Pacific Group, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SPA, BlackRock World Mining Trust, Corio NV, Devro, Electric Word, Hammerson, JSC Halyk Bank GDR (Reg S), Ladbrokes, LSL Property Services, Persimmon, Plant Health Care, Rio Tinto, Stadium Group, Sterling Energy, SThree 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
E2V Technologies, OJSC Novolipetsk Steel GDS (Reg S), SABMiller 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Low & Bonar 

Friday April 20 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Abcam, AdEPT Telecom, Brooks Macdonald Group, Craneware, Downing Absolute Income VCT 1, Matrix Income & Growth 2 VCT, Smiths Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Personal Assets Trust 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
IFO Business Climate (GER) (09:00) 
IFO Current Assessment (GER) (09:00) 
IFO Expectations (GER) (09:00) 
Producer Price Index (GER) (07:00) 

GMS 
Summit Corporation 

FINALS 
Alpha Bank GDR (Reg S) USD, National Bank of Greece ADR, Shaft Sinkers Holdings

ANNUAL REPORT 
Travis Perkins 

IMSS 
Spectris, William Hill 

AGMS 
Capital & Counties Properties , Mediwatch, Rotork, Spectris 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Record 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Access Intelligence, Heavitree Brewery, Heavitree Brewery 'A' Shares 

Q1 
African Barrick Gold 

stphnstevey

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Some funds will allow small regular contributions without fees. Try HL

xo does uk only

I wasn't sure about xo, it says:

1. What markets can I deal in? You can buy and sell shares in most companies that are listed in the UK. This includes dealing in equities, bonds, warrants, ETFs, investment trusts, shares listed on the IRS (International Retail Service) and CDIs of US stocks. Please note that you cannot deal in foreign shares that are listed on overseas markets. If you wish to invest in a CDI of a US stock you will need to complete a Form W-8BEN before you can trade. Click here to download a form and quick completion guide. Alternatively, a full version of the IRS instructions to completing a W-8BEN form can be downloaded by clicking here.

What are CDI's of US stocks?
As far as I can gather that seems to mean you can buy US stocks?