#Gold #SP500 We’d a bit of a giggle with the insurance company who provide cover for the dogs car. Our “spare” car is used entirely for the animals and by myself to visit the hospital on the mainland. Traditionally, it’s a car we expect to run into the ground, one where the MoT people finally say it’s not worth fixing. At this point, we tend list it on eBay for spares/repairs, giving it a starting price of 100 quid. It can be correctly assumed the dogs car doesn’t get lavished with care. When we renewed the insurance last week, the accepted quote was just £182 and everyone was happy (Living in Argyll is not a high risk postcode for cars!)
A couple of days after renewal, the insurance company sent an email asking for confirmation of the annual mileage. The policy had been issued on the basis the car only did 2 thousand miles a year but when we checked the MoT’s, it transpires the spare car was doing just of 2,500 miles per year. When we informed the insurers, they demanded a further £139 per year or else they’d cancel the policy. We had a few days to think about it… My wife took over the phone call, perfectly aware I can be a touch acidic about corporate stupidity but this time, she also ran into a wall of sorts. A couple of days later she called them back, saying we’d no choice but to cancel the policy as the increase was absurd. We received a full refund immediately, less £6 due to the period already insured. She kept the call centre person on the line, while she did something clever.
“I’ve just taken out a new policy with your firm, at the original price, this time using 3,000 miles a year as the estimated mileage. And I’ve paid for it in full. Are there any questions?” She quoted the person the policy number, hearing laughter from the other end. There were no questions but the representative taking the call surely had a funny story to tell. It’s now been five days and they have not cancelled, so a battle with an insurance company was easily won, giving everyone a good giggle at the expense of software which didn’t allow human intervention.
Our hardliner attitude to insurance companies dates back to last year and our battle to get an insurance company to even acknowledge our garden shed disaster. In that instance, incompetence made us decide to play hardball, an attitude which still resonates when renewing the dogs car policy. (We are serious about this; the private registration number even ends in WUF (Golden Retriever dogs are extremely messy, costing a small fortune to have vehicles as diverse as TVR’s and Range Rovers professionally cleaned internally. Our favourite disaster came from the dog who stole a Vienneta from a cool bag while we were buying some wine, pushing it against the car glass as she forced her muzzle into the packaging, squirting chocolate and ice-cream onto the windows etc. This was a factory special TVR 290ti 2+2 with light brown leather upholstery, a model which never officially existed… And the animal was the only dog we ever gave a middle name to; “Chaos”)
The “battle” with our car insurance company, an easy win, leads us to view Beazley with rather gentle eyes, rather than automatically launch into savage mode. Oddly, when we reviewed the company a year ago. Unsurprisingly, we’ve given criteria for gains to 755p, a potential ultimate level which held between July and November last year. However,. somehow or other, the share price managed to propel itself beyond our target level, almost a “no brainer” as this share had closed repeatedly above 755p.
With the company recently indulging in share Buy-Backs, reducing the number of shares on offer and ideally increasing the desirability of the share, moves next above 956 point in the direction of movement to an initial 992 with our secondary, if bettered, at 1007. The proximity of these targets, despite the exciting breathlessness of new all time highs, isn’t that great in terms of monetary leap. Our longer term attraction from 1038p isn’t that impressive but we’d warn, if the market finds an excuse to start “gapping” this price up, goodness knows how high it could go!
If things intend go wrong, below 911 risks promoting reversal to an initial 890 suggests a quote of 858 may be coming, our secondary if broken working out at 762 and a hopeful bottom.
FUTURES
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 9:37:54PM | BRENT | 6651.8 | |||||||||
| 11:37:09PM | GOLD | 3302.39 | 3273 | 3261 | 3245 | 3290 | 3310 | 3321 | 3346 | 3293 | |
| 11:41:49PM | FTSE | 8762.9 | |||||||||
| 11:44:41PM | STOX50 | 5301.9 | |||||||||
| 11:48:28PM | GERMANY | 23921 | |||||||||
| 11:50:31PM | US500 | 6195.9 | 6173 | 6161 | 6143 | 6188 | 6215 | 6222 | 6229 | 6192 | |
| 11:53:19PM | DOW | 44039.7 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:55:42PM | NASDAQ | 22651 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:58:05PM | JAPAN | 40258 |
30/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8760 points. Change of -0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,303,542,637 a change of 7.14%
27/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8798 points. Change of 0.72%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,950,185,062 a change of -11.23%
26/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8735 points. Change of 0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,649,993 a change of -3.11%
25/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8718 points. Change of -0.46%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,755,869,829 a change of -23.33%
24/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8758 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,507,244,124 a change of 60.9%
23/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8758 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,665,666,044 a change of -66.2%
20/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of -0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 13,804,431,161 a change of 245.4% 
SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.
Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION
Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.
UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.
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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares
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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 522 Percentage Change: -0.29% Day High: 535.5 Day Low: 518
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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 1829 Percentage Change: + 2.64% Day High: 1838.5 Day Low: 1795
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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 333.5 Percentage Change: -0.60% Day High: 343 Day Low: 334
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LSE:DGE Diageo Close Mid-Price: 1828 Percentage Change: -0.35% Day High: 1843.5 Day Low: 1820.5
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LSE:FOXT Foxtons. Close Mid-Price: 67.7 Percentage Change: + 1.50% Day High: 68 Day Low: 66
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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 170 Percentage Change: + 1.55% Day High: 170 Day Low: 167
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LSE:MRO Melrose Close Mid-Price: 530.8 Percentage Change: -0.97% Day High: 544.2 Day Low: 531
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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 967.6 Percentage Change: + 1.40% Day High: 983.2 Day Low: 959.2
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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 202 Percentage Change: -0.98% Day High: 209.6 Day Low: 202.6
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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered Close Mid-Price: 1207 Percentage Change: -0.98% Day High: 1230.5 Day Low: 1195
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