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Post by bigbear67 on Mar 12, 2020 19:22:11 GMT
Am I alone in thinking the stock market is being artificially fucked over in order for someone with lots of money to step in & buy a metric fuckload of cheap shares before the market " miraculously " recovers...
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 12, 2020 19:26:01 GMT
Stock markets are always manipulated to big player advantage,thats how they make money buying cheap on a rising market.Its gotta go down first.
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Post by givingitsomethought on Mar 13, 2020 9:00:44 GMT
Sorry to be thick but how do health problems affect stock markets like that? I've never really understood how it all works? Is it things like people flying less mean airline shares go down in value? But then do supermarket shares go up because they're selling more? It's all a bit of a mystery to me, I'm curious to know how it goes up and down when there is a crisis like this?
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Post by VanWoman84 on Mar 13, 2020 11:14:16 GMT
givingitsomethought the stock markets don't like uncertainty. You won't be investing if you don't know what is going to happen. That's how you understand it.
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Post by givingitsomethought on Mar 13, 2020 12:13:37 GMT
givingitsomethought the stock markets don't like uncertainty. You won't be investing if you don't know what is going to happen. That's how you understand it. Ah, okay, so people won't buy stocks if there are too many unknown factors about so that makes the prices go down? Thanks, Vannie, I get very confused with anything that's not actual money I can count in my hand Lol x
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 16, 2020 22:14:22 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 17, 2020 9:49:47 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 17, 2020 11:22:56 GMT
Sorry to be thick but how do health problems affect stock markets like that? I've never really understood how it all works? Is it things like people flying less mean airline shares go down in value? But then do supermarket shares go up because they're selling more? It's all a bit of a mystery to me, I'm curious to know how it goes up and down when there is a crisis like this? Companies raise money to use to support their investment in research andvgrowth by selling shares in their company. Share prices of each company depend on how profitable they are. Stock markets are where all shares are traded in all publicly listed companies. The volume of shares traded depends on how easy or how hard it is for individual companies to make money. If its difficult trading environment for companies to make money from selling their products then shareholders sell shares or buy into more profitable companies or move their money to other commodities and markets fall,if its better trading environment, shareholders buy shares and markets rise. Uncertainty like war or as in this virus situation it makes trading more difficult and more expensive to operate and make profits so it causes uncertainty and shareholders sell shares so the stock markets fall. Speculators move money to invest in shares or commodities like currency or gold or raw materials markets so those markets go up and down too depending on supply available and demand for it. Governments also raise money for themselves by selling bonds at fixed rates of interest for fixed terms which investors buy as theyre good rates of interest for their investment. At the moment theres no confidence in shares markets and no guarantee of investors making any profits so shares are falling,stock markets are plummeting,oil gold and currency market prices are falling so governnents and banks are having to pump money in to the economies to try and stimulate business and confidence. So far its not worked and everything is still sliding toward recession,companies become unprofitable cant pay bills or go bankrupt and close and people lose their jobs. Thats a simplistic version but maybe explains to you why markets go up and down in times like this
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 17, 2020 12:53:16 GMT
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Post by VanWoman84 on Mar 17, 2020 14:23:30 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 17, 2020 14:28:04 GMT
Ive already mentioned carphone above.It was on bbc earlier. I expect someone will buy up Laura Ashley cheap.
Volkswagon and Vauxhall are suspending production and closing factories temporarily.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Mar 17, 2020 14:38:05 GMT
So you did, I missed it. No surprise about Vauxhall. All the car manufacturers are struggling as it is.
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Post by fenrisulfr on Mar 17, 2020 15:23:25 GMT
They were the dresses to have along with their fabrics some 40yrs ago. Used to get dragged into their Worcester shop every time the O/H and I were in the city. Couldn't afford anything but she was a designer and into their 'style' then. Some years later we picked up a couple of their dresses in a charity shop and her last journey to beyond was in one.
Cheap shit from China is responsible for a lot of our companies having problems especially the carpet industry. Trump calling corvid the Chinese virus has got a load of muppets screaming racism but it's just a nasty true fact whatever label you care to put on it and the biggest poke in the eye from them is that they will be back up and running whilst we are still down on our knees.
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Post by NomadCris on Mar 17, 2020 15:33:36 GMT
I remember them when they had first factory in Newtown. Like nearly every British company though,theyve outsourced manufacturing to cheap labour markets and use the cheapest base materials from wherever they can get them. But,thats also a fault of British consumers who wont pay the true value or cost of a product. They want the best name product but want to pay fuck all for it.
Its why theres virtually no proper Cashmere wool products made in Kashmir now. All the Cashmere is from massive herds in Mongolia and South America. Its globalisation for you.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Mar 17, 2020 16:18:59 GMT
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