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Biggles wrote: »

I have read that all brokers were affected to one degree or another by the mayhem following thousands of people who hadn't had shares before trying to sell their Royal Mail Group shares.

I didn't trade last week, so can't say how mine were affected.

Beaufort had a minor glitch on day 1 and I was unable to access the site for a couple of hours, but apart from that they appear to have been online the rest of the week.

EdGasket

Biggles wrote: »

I have read that all brokers were affected to one degree or another by the mayhem following thousands of people who hadn't had shares before trying to sell their Royal Mail Group shares.

I didn't trade last week, so can't say how mine were affected.

The odd part day is acceptable for a site to be down but not being able to trade for 4 days on the trot is appalling.

EdGasket

x-o site now unaivailable; says:
"We are currently performing routine maintenance which will result in the website being unavailable from 6:00pm on Friday, 11st October. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."
They can't even use proper English or even get the date right !

sabretoothtigger

xo site is up

Monday October 21 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Somero Enterprises Inc.(Reg S) 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Existing Home Sales (US) (15:00) 
Producer Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
Appeal Court rules on the length of ban on Berlusconi (IT) 

ANNUAL REPORT 
K3 Business Technology Group 

IMSS 
Senior 

EGMS 
OSJC Center for Cargo Container Traffic Transcontainer GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Renewable Energy Holdings, UniVision Engineering Ltd. 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Renishaw 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Speech by FPC's Martin Taylor 

Tuesday October 22 

INTERIMS 
B.P. Marsh & Partners, Development Securities, Whitbread 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Wholesale Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
Employment situation for September (US) (13:30) 

Q3 
ARM Holdings, Eurasia Drilling Co Ltd GDR (Reg S), Telekomunikacja Polska S.A GDR (Reg S) 

FINALS 
Avia Health Informatics, EpiStem Holdings, Spirit Pub Company 

EGMS 
JSC KazMunaiGaz Exploration Production GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Aberforth Geared Income Trust, Diverse Income Trust (The) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Public Sector Finances (09:30) 
Speech from BoE's Bean (09:10) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
IG Group Holdings 

Wednesday October 23 

INTERIMS 
Home Retail Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
International Public Partnerships Ltd., Interserve 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
BAE Systems, Camkids Group, Central Asia Metals, Downing Planned Exit VCT 2011 (General Shares), Downing Planned Exit VCT 2011 (Low Carbon Shares), Downing Planned Exit VCT 2011 (Structured Shares), Goals Soccer Centres, Hansteen Holdings, Harvey Nash Group, JZ Capital Partners Ltd, Marshalls, Martin Currie Pacific Trust, Menzies(John), Morgan Advance Materials , Octopus VCT , ProVen Growth & Income VCT, ProVen VCT, Restore, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Senior, Tullett Prebon, Walker Greenbank, William Hill, Zhejiang Expressway Co 'H' Shares 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Assura Group Ltd. 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
City of London Inv Trust 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Confidence Indicator (EU) (10:00) 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
House Price Index (US) (15:00) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 
Import price data (US) (13:30) 

Q3 
GlaxoSmithKline, Norsk Hydro ASA 

FINALS 
ASOS 

IMSS 
British American Tobacco, Laird 

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Bailey (C.H.), Smiths Group 

EGMS 
MTI Wireless Edge Ltd. 

AGMS 
Arcontech Group, Haynes Publishing Group 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Sports Direct International 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BBA Mortgage Lending Figures (09:30) 
BoE Interest Rate Minutes (09:30) 
Mansion House speech Andrew Bailey (19:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Rank Group, UniVision Engineering Ltd. 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Aeorema Communications, Barratt Developments, ISG, JPMorgan Emerging Markets Inv Trust, Mcbride, Smiths Group, Thorpe (F.W.), Wetherspoon (J.D.) 

Thursday October 24 

INTERIMS 
Bloomsbury Publishing, Stobart Group Ltd. 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
BrainJuicer Group, Derwent London, Invesco Perpetual UK Small Companies Inv Trust, Morgan Sindall Group, Premier Farnell 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
New Homes Sales (US) (15:00) 
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (US) 
EU Summit (to 25/10) 
Preliminary purchasing managers' surveys (EZ) (08:28) 

Q3 
Shire Plc, Torchmark Corp., Unilever 

FINALS 
Debenhams, Tracsis 

IMSS 
AZ Electronic Materials SA (DI), Go-Ahead Group, Inchcape, Kazakhmys, Promethean World 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
BrainJuicer Group 

EGMS 
Queenco Leisure International Ltd. GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
BHP Billiton, Go-Ahead Group, Lucky Cement Ltd GDR (Reg S), Murgitroyd Group, Rangers International Football Club, Thorntons 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
WPP 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
CBI Industrial Trends Surveys (11:00) 
BoE Governor Carney to speak at event (17:45) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Oxford Instruments 

Friday October 25 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Amati Vct 2, Charlemagne Capital Ltd., Costain Group, Crawshaw Group, CRH, F&C Asset Management, Fairpoint Group, Foresight 2 VCT Planned Exit Shares, Foresight VCT Planned Exit Shares, H.R. Owen, Henry Boot, Hygea VCT, Inmarsat, InterQuest Group, IS Solutions, Kentz Corporation Ltd., Pennant International Group, Real Estate Investors, Smurfit Kappa Group, Vitec Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Molex Inc., Molex Inc. 'A' Shares 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Durable Goods Orders (US) (13:30) 
IFO Business Climate (GER) (09:00) 
IFO Current Assessment (GER) (09:00) 
IFO Expectations (GER) (09:00) 
M3 Money Supply (EU) (09:00) 
U. of Michigan Confidence (Final) (US) (15:00) 

Q3 
Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen S.A. GDR(Reg S), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (ATT) GDR (Reg S) 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Daily Internet 

IMSS 
APR Energy 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Fortune Oil 

AGMS 
Daily Internet , Galleon Holdings, Hargreaves Lansdown, Murray Income Trust 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Mail.ru Group Ltd GDR (Reg S) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
GDP (Preliminary) (09:30) 
Index of Services (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
City of London Investment Group, Consort Medical, Development Securities, ECO Animal Health Group, Norish Units 

Ifts

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

xo site is up

Yep was working during the day today, just checked and its fine at the moment (managed to login to my acc).

Its always been working for me, even when the RMG IPO was happening, only thing I noticed was during that time some of the share prices were displayed incorrectly (had to cross ref the prices with my other other broker, TSC) but were correct when you went through to trade.

Only time it has been offline for me (as I posted on another thread) recently was from the evening of Friday 11th Oct but that was due to scheduled maintenance, it was up and running again the next day earlier than the 6pm Saturday they quoted on their site.

EdGasket

Yes it is working again today.

sabretoothtigger

Monday November 04 

INTERIMS 
E2V Technologies, Grafenia 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
M. P. Evans Group, Mears Group 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Factory Orders (US) (15:00) 
Goods Orders (US) (15:00) 
PMI Manufacturing (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Manufacturing (GER) (08:55) 
Speech Fed Governor Powell 
Speech Boston Fed President 

IMSS 
Telecity Group 

AGMS 
Avation, Qatar Investment Fund, Quoram 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
PMI Construction (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
CPL Resources, Murgitroyd Group, Pacific Horizon Inv Trust 

Tuesday November 05 

INTERIMS 
Blinkx, First Derivatives, Marks & Spencer Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Nationwide Accident Repair Services 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (US) (13:30) 
ISM Non-Manufacturing (US) (15:00) 
ISM Services (US) (15:00) 
Producer Price Index (EU) (10:00) 
HSBC services PMI (China) 
RBA olicy announcement 
European Comission Autumn forecasts 

Q3 
CSR 

FINALS 
Associated British Foods, Next Fifteen Communications 

IMSS 
4Imprint Group, Aer Lingus Group, HSBC Holdings, Intu Properties, Legal & General Group, PPHE Hotel Group Ltd 

AGMS 
Animalcare Group, Kofax, Strategic Equity Capital 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BRC Sales Monitor (00:01) 
Official Reserves (09:30) 
PMI Composite (09:30) 
PMI Services (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
IPPlus 

Q1 
Kofax 

Wednesday November 06 

INTERIMS 
DCC, Experian, FirstGroup, Heath (Samuel) & Sons 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Carillion, Dillistone Group, StatPro Group, Telefonica SA 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Amati VCT , Brightside Group, Bunzl, C&C Group, Downing Planned Exit VCT 2 'C' Shares, Downing Planned Exit VCT 2 'D' Shares , Downing Planned Exit VCT 2 'F' Shares, Downing Planned Exit VCT 2 'G' Shares, Downing Planned Exit VCT 3 'C' Shares, Downing Planned Exit VCT 3 'D' Shares , Downing Planned Exit VCT 3 F Shares, Elderstreet VCT, Hunting, Laird, Maven Income & Growth VCT, Mission Marketing Group, Pace, Proven Planned Exit VCT, SThree, Stobart Group Ltd., Whitbread 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Barclays, BP, IBM Corp., Real Estate Credit Investments PCC Ltd, Utilico Investments Ltd (DI) 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
Factory Orders (GER) (11:00) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 
PMI Composite (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Composite (GER) (08:55) 
PMI Construction (GER) (08:55) 
PMI Services (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Services (GER) (08:55) 
Productivity (US) (13:30) 
Retail Sales (EU) (10:00) 
Speech Cleveland Fed President 

Q3 
Lancashire Holdings Limited, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, Smurfit Kappa Group 

FINALS 
Egdon Resources, Goldplat 

IMSS 
Mondi, Old Mutual, Persimmon 

EGMS 
Resource Holding Management Limited (DI) 

AGMS 
Avingtrans, Hargreaves Services, Macau Property Opportunities Fund Ltd., Mobile Streams, Resource Holding Management Limited (DI), Sinclair Is Pharma 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BRC Shop Price Index (00:01) 
Industrial Production (09:30) 
Manufacturing Production (09:30) 
New Car Registrations (09:30) 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Abcam, Allocate Software, Ashmore Group, Centaur Media, Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Hargreaves Services, James Halstead, JPMorgan Overseas Inv Trust, Jupiter Primadona Growth Trust, Matchtech Group, Regenersis 

Thursday November 07 

INTERIMS 
Cable & Wireless Communications, Dairy Crest Group, Halfords Group, Invensys, Shanks Group, Tate & Lyle, Wincanton 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Bodycote, British American Inv Trust, Cenkos Securities, Hydrogen Group, SIG, Synthomer 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Consumer Credit (US) (20:00) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
ECB Interest Rate announcement (EU) (12:45) 
Industrial Production (GER) (11:00) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
PMI Construction (GER) (08:55) 
Q3 GDP (US) (13:30) 


Q3 
Hellenic Telecom Industries SA ADS, RSA Insurance Group, Talvivaara Mining Company (CDI) 

FINALS 
AB Dynamics, Grainger 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Associated British Foods 

IMSS 
Aviva, Beazley, Bumi, Cable & Wireless Communications, Dialight, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, London Mining, Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets, Ruspetro, Schroders, Schroders (Non-Voting), Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Synthomer 

EGMS 
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
CAP-XX Ltd., Ceres Power Holdings, Hansard Global, JPMorgan Mid Cap Inv Trust, Jupiter Energy Ltd, Mirada, New Star Investment Trust, Schroder Japan Growth Fund 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BoE Interest Rate Decision (12:00) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Begbies Traynor Group, Penna Consulting, Photo-Me International, Wilmington Group 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Downing Absolute Income VCT 1, Downing Absolute Income VCT 1 'C' Shares 

Friday November 08 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Cobham, Hargreave Hale AIM VCT 2, Huntsworth, Johnson Service Group, Judges Scientific, Rightmove, Spectris, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Unite Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
British Land Co 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (GER) (07:00) 
Current Account (GER) (07:00) 
Non-Farm Payrolls (US) (13:30) 
Retail Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
U. of Michigan Confidence (Prelim) (US) (15:00) 
Unemployment Rate (US) (13:30) 
Wholesales Inventories (US) (15:00) 
Speech Atlanta Fed President 
Speech Fed Chairman Bernanke (20:30) 
Speech San Francisco Fed President 

Q3 
Afarak Group (DI), International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (CDI), OJSC Novolipetsk Steel GDS (Reg S) 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Frontier IP Group 

IMSS 
Rolls-Royce Holdings, Tullow Oil 

AGMS 
Ludgate Environmental Fund Ltd., Wolf Minerals Limited 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Rentokil Initial 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Daejan Holdings

sabretoothtigger

Halifax wrote:

We're giving you a great opportunity on Tuesday 12th November between 12-2pm to save on your trading commission. Our offer gives you the opportunity to trade UK and International shares online for only £3.95 commission.
The same discount will be applied to every online purchase or sale you make of international shares between 8am and 9pm. Don't forget, that all foreign currency conversion charges of 1% apply when you buy and sell international stocks and UK purchases are subject to stamp duty at 0.5%

Halifax:money:

mawallace

I use Stocktrade, but they have revised their charges.

I usually do around four or five trades a year, fairly small sized transactions.

The stock trade plan I am on is

£1.50 + VAT per month, plus a dealing commission of 1%, min £7.50.

Are there are cheaper choices around?

crispeater

just out of interest did anyone purchase the Merlin shares released yesterday?