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#Gold #WallSt Happy New Year and thanks for letting us enjoy a real break.\u00a0 At this time of year, folk – ourselves included – show extraordinary tolerance to confectionary, food, booze and late nights. However, we’d a bit of an epiphany with the discovery there’s a really good reason for Christmas being celebrated over just 12 days. Any more festive time and tolerance for family (and friends) starts to substantially diminish, quick dog walks starting to take upward of 2 hours and the need for a nap after dinner becoming almost frantic!<\/p>\n
But one thing became apparent during the hiatus after Christmas. Here in Argyll, we’ve managed to dodge bad weather, utterly spoiled by blue sky days with brilliant sunshine. The only tiny problem has been seriously freezing temperatures but a wood burning stove tends manage such an issue with very little cost, our firewood being harvested from the back garden forest. Surprisingly, our two garden crows (Russell and Cheryl) revealed a side of their nature we were utterly unaware existed. The concept of “birds feeding birds” wasn’t new, previously watching Sally & Walter, the two wood pigeons’, tossing nuts to the crows waiting on the ground as they were too large to fit on the feeders.<\/p>\n
This time around, tossing out 4 slices of bread for the crows brought surprise behaviour. Cheryl Crow utterly shredded one slice of bread, created a storm of Hovis on the grass. Suddenly, robins and finches were present, filling up on the small fragments of the loaf. Meanwhile, Russell Crow broke a slice into four, taking the bits to the top right of the garden where blackbird is often found rummaging in leaves. And then, the two crows vanished with the final slices of bread, doubtless enjoying a secret feast in their private hideout. This experiment was repeated a couple of times, once again being able to witness birds feeding birds.<\/p>\n
Who knows, maybe the crows are fattening them up for a feast as we’d always assumed crows had a similar predatory moral compass to the UK’s retail banks. Which brings us to Natwest Bank.<\/p>\n
Presently trading around 665p, the bank has a share price which needs CLOSE a session above just 711p for us to dare to believe the damage from the “Crash of 2009” is being eroded. It is worth remembering the true value of a Natwest share is 1\/10th of the current artificial price, due to a 1:10 share consolidation under RBS branding quite a few years ago. However, for those who’ve been playing with the share since its low of 9.7p in March 2009, in any language the current price is a lot healthier, and perhaps poised for even happier times ahead.<\/p>\n
The current situation for Natwest suggests movement next above 670p should now target an initial 686p with our secondary, if bettered, at 701p. This should certainly bring the share price within sniffing distance of our “closure above 711p demand”, this being the theoretical trigger which should promote a Big Picture potential travel in the direction of an eventual 1159p and the sound of drunk investors everywhere.<\/p>\n
For things to go Retail Bank shaped, the share price needs close below 550p and currently, this looks unlikely.<\/p>\n
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