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Gold prices and Lee Mack?

#Gold #WallSt  A strange phone call from my sister provided the best laugh of the year so far. She had recently moved house and had taken the family cat to a new Vet to get it registered, along with a checkup for the decrepit ancient black ball of temper. In starting the registration process, the Vet asked a difficult question!

“What’s the name of your cat?”

She didn’t have a clue, and calls to her children had the same answer. It appears, for nearly 20 years, the family always called the cat; “Cat”. Eventually deciding I’d probably know, she called and of course, my best effort was “the Cat”. She swallowed her pride, deciding to call her original Vet practice and discovered the thing was registered as “Kat”. The receptionist admitted it was a strange choice for a male cat. It seems, the animal has gone through its life without a name. But it knew the signal to walk away was when anyone used the word “Cat”. Her husbands contribution was to think it was called “Bob” or “Tom” originally but no-one liked his suggestions.

 

Similar to that feline, we’re struggling to find an appropriate word to describe the way Gold prices are behaving. In our rather cynical report 6 weeks ago, we commented ;

In a spiteful attempt to prove us wrong, the price of Gold managed to close at 3,433 and 3,401 on the 13th and 16th June, then falling back as if aghast at its temerity. Our inclination is to regard this as a display from the market which proved our trigger level can indeed be exceeded. If the story intends unfold in accordance with usual behaviour, either the 2nd or 3rd closing price forage above this trigger should be the one which provokes some “proper” upward travel. This being the case, our suspicion is either for intraday movement next above 3,447 or (if playing safe) market closure above 3,412 as being reasonable trigger levels to anticipate movement now to an initial 3,535 with our secondary, if bettered, at $3,676. To expand on this outlook, we already suspect 3,676 and above is scheduled for Gold, the only problem remaining being one of timeframes.

 

Being clear, if you want accurate timeframes, we’d need adopt the characteristics of Dr Who and until then, we’re just human and computer. Until such a point our “big picture” scenario is triggered, movement to our upper levels does not become safe from our perspective. And even then, Dr Who still gets things wrong, the recent series cancellation being a complete surprise to everyone – except anyone who’d been trying to watch the dreadful show over the reign of the most recent two Doctors.

Perhaps the next effort could be more successful, if they employed Lee Mack as the Doctor and his “Not Going Out ” wife, Sally Bretton wife, as his assistant! Such whimsical casting would doubtless retrieve an audience presumed lost to the ravages of dreadful script writing and dreadful casting, reminding the audience Dr Who is supposed to be an escape from reality rather than a lecture about a screen writers woke version of the world..

Aside from such criticism, it would be true to admit we now rarely watch UK TV shows, my wife only a devotee of Coronation St and myself enjoying “Not Going Out” if it’s on. Or the “1% Club” which has become a firm favourite with our grand-daughters. The clock is certainly ticking away for the BBC TV license as it’s noteworthy neither of the shows which are forever tied to the “Record” button on our satellite feed, are BBC productions. Somehow or other, the entire BBC output has become as “essential viewing”, as a Party Political Broadcast. Perhaps the untrustworthy presentation of BBC News has been to blame.

 

Aside from a rant about how to save Dr Who… we’re still reasonably optimistic about Golds prospects for the future. From a charty perspective, things are certainly optimistic, the metal needing below 3,320 before facing a potential melt-down to an initial 3,227 with our secondary, if broken, at a very possible bounce point at 3,147 dollars.

For now, we’re optimistic and suspect President Trump would need introduce a tariff on folk with either a West country or Welsh accent visiting the USA before we’d have concerns. We’re being a little bit cruel but notice folk blessed with such accents are perfectly capable of moderating them, when poised at the Black floor line of passport control in an American airport… Whereas Scots, believing we don’t have an accent, know to look with pity on the gun toting official in her little glass box, as she tries to educate her ears toward any perfectly clear answer which was given.

 

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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
11:05:52PM BRENT 6836.4 ‘cess
11:08:20PM GOLD 3398.57 3362 3346 3328 3386 3401 3416 3431 3385 Success
11:19:36PM FTSE 8986.8
11:21:53PM STOX50 5323.9
11:25:01PM GERMANY 24247
11:27:43PM US500 6311.8 Success
11:30:38PM DOW 44393.1 44316 44223 44097 44437 44600 44718 44852 44482 Success
11:36:20PM NASDAQ 23189.1 Success
11:40:05PM JAPAN 39805

 

21/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9013 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,844,177,797 a change of 22.54%
18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%

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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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 532.5 Percentage Change: -0.56% Day High: 539.5 Day Low: 531.5

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 1000 Percentage Change: -0.50% Day High: 1011 Day Low: 993.2

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1080 Percentage Change: + 0.51% Day High: 1080 Day Low: 1074

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 0.98 Percentage Change: -2.50% Day High: 1 Day Low: 0.95

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 424.5 Percentage Change: + 1.99% Day High: 425.4 Day Low: 415.6

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 83.08 Percentage Change: + 1.22% Day High: 83.3 Day Low: 82.18

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Natwest (LSE:NWG) and trout fishing…

#Brent #Dax  My other half’s addiction to Temu remains in place, thankfully for the most instance harmless as things only go wrong when she buys electrical goods. She was delighted, when my Saturday fishing for trout was cancelled as it meant I could install two spotlights in the kitchen, along with build three shelving units. The spotlights should have been easy but goods from China can suffer terrible quality control issues. As a result, rather than wiring them into the lighting circuit, it made sense to stick a three pin plug on them. One worked, the other didn’t! After another hour or so, a decision to look inside a little white box on the lights wiring revealed one of the 220 volt wires was attached to nothing, only a shake in the wrong direction being able to create a short circuit.

While being personal guilty of being a bit cavalier with safety, this was a particularly big sin. Standard practice with electrics always includes a method to hold wires in place. This 220 to  12v transformer for the kitchen lights had absolutely no method which would stop wires puling out. Even tying a knot on the cable would serve but, as everyone knows, even a UK 3 pin plug has a plastic bar which two screws hold in place, restricting movements of wires. The “working” lamp from China equally had no restraint on the cables, this one thankfully having the wires soldered in place. Being paranoid, the wires were tied in a knot, ensuring they couldn’t be accidentally pulled from the transformer. While it is tempting to just shrug and blame it on quality control, somewhere in China is a production line making garbage which doesn’t meet basic UK electrical safety regulations, rules of best practice which are being ignored, very real fire risks allowed into the UK.

However, my real wrath should be directed at the genius in China who designed the shelf units. At first glance, the steel framed product was truly clever, the simple act of attaching together a single corned making it immediately apparent real thought had gone into the (screw and bolt free) design.  A short while later, it became clear there was only one little flaw. When it came to assembly, human beings are only blessed with two arms and ten fingers. This particular product needed  32 points of contact simultaneously slid together to create the outer frame of the book shelf’s.  Not even IKEA, in their wildest dreams, could create something as utterly frustrating. By around 1am on Sunday morning, my arc welding kit was in action, all 8 corners of the cube welded together one by one, obviously removing the need for the 4 locator pins at each corner and doubtless making a curious light show in the sky above the back garden.

Maybe China assumes everyone in the UK keeps a welding plant handy, just in case! To be fair, the steel framed book case looks great, now all the welds have been flattened by a grinder…

All things considered, I wish I’d gone fishing on Saturday. While abhorring the “sport”, as long as fishermen intend eat their catch, a palate which really enjoys trout will always justify wasting hours on an open boat, inevitably talking about the things we intend doing once we get out of the sodding wooden row boat. While detesting fishing, my oldest friend loves it which means I package away my hatred when he visits. His other “thing”, football, is a line I’ve always refused to cross, feeling the game to be utterly pointless. He once played for Manchester United (or City) and refrains from talking about football when we’re together. I also do not talk about motorcycles or skiing but beyond these taboo subjects, there is plenty to discuss. Such as quality control in China.

We’d to cancel the day fishing, because his daughter had an unexpected job and he’d to babysit her Corgi puppy. Due to him famously once taking MY dog for a walk and coming back with a different dog, he has a ban-for-life of taking dogs out. Instead, he was consigned to playing with Charlie (the Corgi) in his garden and not letting the animal out of his sight. Genuinely, he once took my black mongrel for a walk, returning from the park with a different black dog. Everything got sorted out eventually but it provided an indelible mark against his character as apparently there was a football match in the park.

 

And this brings us to Natwest, the “catch and release share” of UK banks. It was supposed to be doing quite well, the original clown bank outperforming both Lloyds and Barclays following the market crash of 2009. But since the start of July this year, the share price has been doing stupid stuff, visually the victim of a conspiracy theory attempt to slow down the rate of climb. Obviously, such a concept is daft but share price movements since the start of July certainly are a little questionable when viewed in conjunction with the Blue downtrend since 2007.

Just look at the chart below for an explanation of our incredulity. The share price broke below our trend break level of 487p (Flagged in Red) and with what looks like panic, the FTSE opted to correct the drop the next day. It felt like the market was happy for Natwest to go down, just “not that far” down and perhaps the Blue downtrend shall remain following the rules?

 

Who knows, we make up “the rules” in an effort to understand just what the market is playing at. But if we’re right, this is a probable indication the market may not wish for Natwest to back itself into oblivion but instead, quite literally slow down its rate of recovery while the lesser banks catch up! It’s a theory, or perhaps wishful thinking.

Should our outlandish theory prove correct, above 502p should now prove interesting, providing a scenario which allows for movement to an initial 530p with our secondary, if beaten, an amazing 554p which would make a lot of sense. We’ve a historical argument favouring 557 as a major point of interest for this share price and we’d cheerfully welcome 554p as achieving such a near 20 year old target level. It would at least confirm a very complex line in the sand was correct.

If Natwest intends to continue to confound us, below 484 risks creating a problem with an initial drop target at 460 with our secondary, if shattered, down at 434p and a potential strong bounce.

 

 

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Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
1:06:20AM BRENT 6857.7 6851 6773 6694 6905 6980 6993 7084 6900
8:50:48PM GOLD 3349.27
9:03:21PM FTSE 8977.6
9:05:39PM STOX50 5339.2
9:29:56PM GERMANY 24197 24167 24054 23908 24247 24322 24367 24434 24250
10:53:38PM US500 6299.3
10:56:10PM DOW 44338.1
10:59:02PM NASDAQ 23083
11:00:45PM JAPAN 39920

 

18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%

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.

We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…

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LSE:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 337.5 Percentage Change: + 6.13% Day High: 344.5 Day Low: 320.5

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 637.4 Percentage Change: + 0.35% Day High: 638 Day Low: 632.8

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 535.5 Percentage Change: + 1.61% Day High: 537 Day Low: 526.5

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 4088 Percentage Change: + 0.71% Day High: 4101 Day Low: 4077

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LSE:IAG British Airways Close Mid-Price: 380.4 Percentage Change: -0.94% Day High: 386.6 Day Low: 378.8

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 178.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 179.4 Day Low: 178.4

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LSE:MRO Melrose. Close Mid-Price: 541.4 Percentage Change: + 1.01% Day High: 557.2 Day Low: 539.4

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.75 Percentage Change: + 2.94% Day High: 8.85 Day Low: 8.55

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1074.5 Percentage Change: + 0.66% Day High: 1077 Day Low: 1065.5

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 1 Percentage Change: -4.76% Day High: 1.05 Day Low: 1

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 416.2 Percentage Change: + 0.99% Day High: 417.7 Day Low: 413.2

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FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) staging movement?

#Brent #Nasdaq  Stage Fright manifests in strange ways, not least of which being the state of the FTSE.  The UK market has comprehensively moved above its prior high of 8908 points and is now fluttering in the breeze, just awaiting an updraft to get it moving properly. My own experience with Stage Fright was rather more vivid, my name called at the high school assembly one Friday morning. I’d apparently won a National Award for something I’d no knowledge of being entered for, and was to make my way on stage to receive a trophy and a cheque! Manoeuvring past an entire school determined to trip me, almost running up the stairs to the stage, the top step caught me, a spectacular nosedive following to the headmasters feet. Unlike with Frodo or Harry Potter, neither a magic ring or invisibility cloak was available and the sound of laughter still resonates in my ears. The headmaster pulled me upright, made a show of dusting my shoulders, and asked for a few words about the award and win.

At this point, an important discovery loomed, one which probably shaped my life. Furious at being laughed at, furious about the lack of warning, and furious about being clumsy, I let rip at the laughing morons taking pleasure in someone else’s discomfort. Then a doze of acidic complements was poured over the teachers who’d placed me in this position, questioning just what they expected from a 13 year old’s speech. After successfully alienating the entire school and teaching staff, the headmaster grabbed the microphone before any commentary started on the janitorial staff and their lack of care about the carpet up to the stage. Essentially, I learned I do not suffer from stage fright and should never, ever, be allowed to speak in public when angry. Amusingly, when winning the same award a year later, before the school assembly award ceremony I was seated at the side of the stage and ready to walk on, curtsey and smile, and accept a little pat on the head. Never again did that high school trust me holding a microphone!

 

So, the question is, shall the FTSE trip on the current top step, only to run off-stage, or shall it continue onward? There’s a bigger problem looming as the index is now in the holiday season, just days away from the utter boredom of August where it risks the index bouncing from around 8900 points to 9000 points while it pretends being useful, despite everyone being at Butlins for their annual vacation month, a month which has somehow become around 6 weeks long stretching from July through to the first week of September.

Obviously we’re being very cynical but the feeling of the UK market suggests we may be about to see the start of a “Santa Rally”, one which shall commence sometime in October and last until the year end. It is probably worth remembering the FTSE has moved from a low of 7500 back in April to a recent 9000 points, a fairly remorseless 20% rise over a four month period. The situation now is of a demand the FTSE close a session above 9017 points to signal the next climbing cycle is commencing.

This is interesting, because from a near term perspective, above 8996 points should now signal the possibility of movement to an initial 9052 points with our secondary, if beaten, at 9075 points. Either ambition certainly gives the FTSE sufficient excuse to close above 9017 and thus trigger some Big Picture potentials. In this scenario, the tightest stop loss level is quite attractive at 8950 points.

Our alternate scenario allows weakness below 8950 risking triggering reversal to an initial 8914 with our secondary, if broken, at 8890 and a possible bounce.

 

In summary, the story with the FTSE is about at transparent as the current debate about Epstein from the USA media.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:19:23PM BRENT 6895.7 6768 6717 6654 6840 6906 6923 6974 6856 Shambles
9:21:09PM GOLD 3338.97
9:23:26PM FTSE 8983.5
9:44:43PM STOX50 5383.5 ‘cess
9:47:02PM GERMANY 24404.7 ‘cess
9:49:58PM US500 6302.6 ‘cess
10:14:19PM DOW 44512.5 ‘cess
10:17:00PM NASDAQ 23092 22867 22821 22726 22986 23109 23159 23323 23026 ‘cess
10:19:12PM JAPAN 40066

 

17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%

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.

We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 78.2 Percentage Change: + 2.36% Day High: 78.94 Day Low: 77.7

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.5 Percentage Change: + 1.19% Day High: 8.55 Day Low: 8.45

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 65.4 Percentage Change: + 4.47% Day High: 65.4 Day Low: 61.6

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1010 Percentage Change: + 2.19% Day High: 1009.5 Day Low: 985.4

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 22.65 Percentage Change: + 0.67% Day High: 23.2 Day Low: 21.8

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1067.5 Percentage Change: + 1.62% Day High: 1072 Day Low: 1060

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1333 Percentage Change: + 2.22% Day High: 1349.5 Day Low: 1315.5

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 412.1 Percentage Change: + 1.10% Day High: 412.8 Day Low: 408.1

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Wishbone Gold Plc (LSE:WSBN) about to make music?

#Gold #Stoxx50  Despite receiving a few emails about Wishbone Gold, our normal inclination would be to avoid analysis, due to shares below 1p being outrageously effected by “the spread”, along with sentiment in chatrooms providing wild and weird influences on prices. However, once upon a time there was a rock group called Wishbone Ash, never particularly famous but known for their use of the two lead guitarists harmonising with each other. The band were credited with influencing just about everyone in the music field, The Eagles to name just one.

A couple of chums and I spent our teens either building motorcycles or playing guitar and one of the guys insisted we listen to Wishbone Ash’s album Argos, his argument being we’d learn a lot from the groups style. Unfortunately, we also ended up learning how to play many of the tracks on that album, particularly one called “Blowing Free”, arguably getting to the point where our own recordings were superior to the original band. It was a lot of fun, though hard work as the driving force was one of our number intending to become a professional musician. He accomplished this ambition, only for his dream to be stifled when an offer to join an already famous band in Los Angeles was declined, due to him not wishing to leave the UK, Scotland, and his family. But he remains as an on-demand session musician in the UK and Europe but still hasn’t ever been on an aircraft.

When we got together a few years ago, for a giggle I played the opening chords for “Blowing Free”, the other pair picking up guitars and joining in seamlessly.  It was like 30+ years hadn’t passed, our wives gobsmacked at music they’d never heard previously from any of us. The often incessant practice sessions as teenagers had certainly sunk in. While Wishbone Ash had effectively stopped performing before we picked up guitars, they certainly influenced us!

What sort of experience should we anticipate with Wishbone Gold?

 

Presently trading around 0.625p, we suspect the share price needs exceed 0.785 to trigger “proper” movement as this should allow a surge in share price value to an initial 1.07p. Hopefully the company have some news polished up and ready to release which involves a story about a Goose and Golden Eggs! The 1.07 level looks fairly key, proving an impressive potential of movement to 1.45p along with (visually) some probable hesitation.

Until such time the share closes above the Blue downtrend, we are somewhat nervous for the company prospects, especially as our calculations project any drop targets prefaced with minus signs at present. However, perhaps the surge in Gold values above the 3,000 US dollar level shall prove useful as there’s very little inhibiting the metal to now reach for a future 3,715 dollars. Certainly, if the price of Gold again wanders above the 3,400 point, things are liable to become interesting fairly quickly for companies active in the field of shiny dreams.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:30:30PM BRENT 6814.7
10:36:26PM GOLD 3346.76 3319 3302 3277 3336 3377 3404 3445 3340 Success
10:40:21PM FTSE 8976 ‘cess
10:43:32PM STOX50 5342 5286 5275 5211 5335 5362 5379 5410 5330 Success
10:46:41PM GERMANY 24181
10:49:06PM US500 6258.9 ‘cess
10:51:49PM DOW 44188.5
11:02:18PM NASDAQ 22890 ‘cess
11:06:55PM JAPAN 39551 Success

 

16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%

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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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.4 Percentage Change: + 1.20% Day High: 8.45 Day Low: 8.35

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 22.5 Percentage Change: -3.02% Day High: 24.3 Day Low: 22.45

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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 210.2 Percentage Change: -0.76% Day High: 215 Day Low: 208.8

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 407.6 Percentage Change: -0.05% Day High: 411 Day Low: 406.8

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J.D. Wetherspoon (LSE:JDW) looking hopeful

#FTSE #Nasdaq  The pub industry is a puzzle to us. Here in Argyll, the number of licensed premises has been decimated over the years. When we considered moving into our current home 10 years ago, we’d sampled the village pub, delighted with the service and food. The place was just a few hundred yards away, ticking the final box in our decision to buy. Of course, by the time we actually moved house, the village pub was shut and sporting a For Sale sign. It remained unsold for an age, eventually finding a buyer who decided to develop the property to include flats for AirBnB rental. Perhaps inevitably, once the windows had been removed, the floors torn out, the money also ran out and the place has been empty since. It’s now the case four pubs have closed on the 8 mile stretch between our house and the local town.

But the other side of the coin is curious, two family members deciding to sell their own pubs in the country to corporate chains, both becoming millionaires in the process! One even accepted a job with the corporate, managing the pub he’d been running for years…

But the licensed trade, certainly here in Argyll, appears to be tough though we note Wetherspoons continue to complain about government damage to their industry, most recently adding plans to charge business rates by size of premises. However, it’s hard to take their complaints terribly seriously, when they announce their intention to open 6 new Wetherspoons branches in 2025, taking their outlet count to around 857…

 

Recent price movements with Wetherspoon are looking a little ambiguous as traffic below 750p threatens reversal down to an initial 730p and hopefully a bounce. The danger comes, if the share price closes below 730p, a box is ticked which allows longer term reversal to 662p. Our suspicion is any reversal to 730 shall be more an attempt to slow the price down, rather than a real reflection of price movements.

Alternately, it’s now the case where above 794 should trigger growth to an initial 825p with our secondary, if beaten, at a longer term 928p.

Our inclination is to lean toward optimism here.

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:17:01PM BRENT 6829
11:19:22PM GOLD 3326.52 Success
11:21:56PM FTSE 8935.7 8933 8918 8877 8957 9009 9039 9075 8977
11:23:59PM STOX50 5340.5
11:26:02PM GERMANY 24004
11:37:34PM US500 6231.3 Shambles
11:46:14PM DOW 43922 ‘cess
11:48:27PM NASDAQ 22817.6 22800 22720 22612 22888 22946 22998 23064 22876 Success
11:50:53PM JAPAN 39600 ‘cess

 

15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%

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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LSE:BARC Barclays Close Mid-Price: 343.35 Percentage Change: -0.19% Day High: 346.75 Day Low: 341.05

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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 344.5 Percentage Change: -0.43% Day High: 358.5 Day Low: 344

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 4018 Percentage Change: + 4.28% Day High: 4058 Day Low: 3976

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 377.2 Percentage Change: + 0.11% Day High: 380.2 Day Low: 375.2

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 176.2 Percentage Change: + 0.69% Day High: 177 Day Low: 175

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 62 Percentage Change: + 0.65% Day High: 63.4 Day Low: 60.2

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1053 Percentage Change: + 0.33% Day High: 1058.5 Day Low: 1052.5

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1315 Percentage Change: + 0.77% Day High: 1331.5 Day Low: 1310

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 407.8 Percentage Change: -0.49% Day High: 410.4 Day Low: 406.4

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Silver Ounce vs US Dollar (PM:XAGUSD) getting exciting!!!

#Brent #WallSt  Our historical refusal to comment on Silver relates to a price movement in 2011. We’d provided a report of movement potentials, one which was proving incredibly correct as the price surged from the 20 dollar level to over 40 dollars. On the Friday when it achieved our highs, something quite awful happened just after 2pm. At the time, we speculated the grown ups from the Silver Price Manipulation office had gone out for lunch, leaving a poorly paid intern in control of the market.

When everyone returned from the pub, immediate horror clearly broke out, the price of Silver immediately being returned to the 30 dollar level. There was no breaking news driving the reversal, no similar movement in the price of Gold, just an emphatic feeling we’d been monitoring a commodity which was under manual control, now being manipulated with similar ease to someone sliding down the volume controls on a mixing deck. After our strop, we decided to cease covering Silver as the level of obvious manipulation during a trading session deserved an FSA investigation or stronger. While many folk regard the markets as “rigged” this was a truly unusual circumstance, one enacted without manipulation gaps at commencement of trade.

Obviously, our objection to market manipulation comes from the salient detail it can derail a lot of work, few things being more irritating.

And now, we come to the “however”…

 

The chart below shows Silver as being restrained below the 20 dollar level for the period 2015 until 2020. But from 2020 until 2025, the product was permitted to trade in the 20 to 30 dollar level. And now, we are curious whether the product is entering another 5 year phase, this time from the 30 to 40 dollar level? Events in the next few weeks should prove interesting but our software is now showing stronger potentials.

Above 38.5 dollars calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 42 dollars with our secondary, if bettered, at a longer term 47 dollars. Obviously, the words “longer term” can be subjective when applied to Silver! But we suspect should the $47 level make an appearance, we shall not be surprised if the metal discovers a reason to melt down toward the 30 dollar level, perhaps spending the next 5 years bouncing around between 30 and 40 US Dollars.

This conclusion is obviously rather contrived, based on an expectation the price of Silver shall again find itself under manual control along with an expectation this particular Leopard shall not change its spots..

 

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FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:23:38PM BRENT 6859.9 6853 6777 6667 6947 6970 7086 7177 6930 Shambles
11:27:37PM GOLD 3343.93
11:31:12PM FTSE 9014.5 ‘cess
11:33:55PM STOX50 5371.5 ‘cess
11:36:42PM GERMANY 24189.6 ‘cess
11:39:29PM US500 6261.3 Success
11:54:57PM DOW 44406.5 44084 43944 43768 44196 44468 44549 44704 44312 ‘cess
10:00:12PM NASDAQ 22834 ‘cess
10:03:19PM JAPAN 39463

 

14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%
4/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8822 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,036,552,845 a change of -37.43%

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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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 376.8 Percentage Change: + 2.03% Day High: 376.6 Day Low: 364.6

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.35 Percentage Change: + 1.21% Day High: 8.35 Day Low: 8.2

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2005 Percentage Change: + 0.25% Day High: 2085 Day Low: 2000

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 998.4 Percentage Change: + 1.05% Day High: 999.4 Day Low: 980.8

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 23.15 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 23.7 Day Low: 22.7

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LSE:SRP Serco. Close Mid-Price: 212.4 Percentage Change: + 0.09% Day High: 213.6 Day Low: 210

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 1.05 Percentage Change: -4.98% Day High: 1.15 Day Low: 1.05

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 409.8 Percentage Change: + 2.17% Day High: 408.1 Day Low: 401.4

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Barclays Plc (LSE:BARC) and a line on a chart.

#Gold #SP500  The contrived crash of March 20th 2020 certainly serves to provide a useful starting point to examine how the three retail banks have performed in the period since. To our utter amazement, NatWest (LSE:NWG) has outperformed the other retail banks, even achieving a high of 537p fairly recently, coming close to something we shall regard as a major trigger level at 570p. Above this point, we shall even consider using the word “strength” in conversations about the retail banks. This is fairly radical as historically we’ve cheerfully referred to the Banking Sector as the “Clown Sector”.

But as the chart below shows, Natwest has effectively gone up 5 fold since its 100p low in 2020, whereas Barclays has “only” achieved a 3 fold gain from its 100p low in 2020, effectively matching the behaviour of its stable mate Lloyds who moved from 25p to 75p. Unfortunately, the scaling of the chart fails to convey the massive difference, other than highlight NatWest is in the lead.

 

Barclays are certainly giving sufficient reason for some puzzlement over its relatively lethargic behaviour but the share price now needs to close a session below 310p to force us to stir the tea leaves again and revisit our future target levels. The immediate situation suggests the potential for moves above 346p to hopefully trigger an uphill wander in the direction of 370p next with our secondary, if bettered, now at 395p. This secondary is a big deal, capable of allowing this share price to actually close a session above 386p, a visually important trigger level.

From our perspective, even with such a dangerous sector as the Banks, closure above 386p shall present something about as close as possible to a trade becoming “safe”, certainly as far as a long term target of 513p, a potential profit of a reasonable 32%. It’s certainly unusual and uncomfortable taking such a stance as we’re traditionally guilty of a surfeit of caution!

For things to go wrong with Barclays, their share price now needs dip below 310p to give rise to worry, such a movement calculating with the potential of a drip down to an initial 291p. Our longer term secondary, should such a level break, works out at 248p, a target which sounds absurd but somehow also matches the mid-term Red uptrend, giving hope for a bounce if such a target makes an appearance.

 

For now, our inclination is to lean toward optimism for the longer term. But if you walk passed a vendor selling lucky charms, it’ll not do any harm to buy one…

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
1:09:13AM BRENT 7025
1:11:27AM GOLD 3355.3 3308 3283 3254 3331 3370 3375 3406 3348
1:14:51AM FTSE 8944.6
1:16:57AM STOX50 5380.2
1:21:09AM GERMANY 24220
1:25:47AM US500 6251.4 6241 6236 6218 6270 6270 6283 6300 6247
1:32:37AM DOW 44312.5
2:08:37AM NASDAQ 22755.5

 

11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%
4/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8822 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,036,552,845 a change of -37.43%
3/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8823 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,853,262,556 a change of -31.49%

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:BARC Barclays Close Mid-Price: 340 Percentage Change: -1.06% Day High: 345.4 Day Low: 337.65

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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 347.5 Percentage Change: -1.28% Day High: 355 Day Low: 341.5

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LSE:IAG British Airways Close Mid-Price: 369.3 Percentage Change: -0.16% Day High: 374.7 Day Low: 367.4

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer Close Mid-Price: 327.8 Percentage Change: -1.09% Day High: 334.8 Day Low: 326.3

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