I suppose they'll doing their sums over the weekend calculating how much float is left in the markets.
Is that it or are we going lower?

They won't mark it up until they're happy that everybody has finished selling that's for sure.

china were the billy big boys all along and if wasn't if usa caught a cold,it was if china sneezes the world gets a virus,

The volume of shares traded traded today was very high, with the index finishing off the lows, which will give plenty of comfort to those who study the bars and volumes.
It looks pretty much like what is called ''stopping volume.'' That usually heralds the end of the big drops because it strongly suggests that buying has entered the market.
Bearing in mind that they wrong footed us on Wednesday with that ''test'' like bar finishing on the days high. 

But nevertheless, don't get jumping off the top floor yet.

Just had a look at the the Dow UB.

That price action looks a bit like what they call ''Bag Holding'' catching the shares into their bags as they drop into them - lol.

Not sure about that Dr Crippen but you're right about Financial Advisers: the average FA or IFA couldn't find the couch in his living room.

I had a share dealing accounts with SVS securities and haven't been able to access the account since August.

Although I probably wouldn't have sold anything it's likely that many other SVS customers have lost out.

Shoddy way to be treated by the SVC administrators, JML.

By comparison, in the USA, shareholders are guaranteed up to £400k and reimbursing them would have been the first priority.

Hope it is resolved soon - you should have been weighed in last August/September.

ftse was higher in 1999

Yes around 350 points higher.

Which is startling since the FTSE 100 was designed to rise, and is made up from the highest capitalised companies.
As companies falter, they're taken out of the index and replaced by those that are doing better.
Yet despite that advantage it's only gone up by 800 or so points in 20 years if we take the market tops closing prices as our benchmarks.

Looking good!But if it completely crashed,what if it ends up far worse than 2008? What if their solution to it isn't what you thought? Whats your plan B?

We've all got our fingers crossed for you UB.

That's right JML.

There are guarantees that should have been applied to reimburse SVS investors last summer/autumn.

Tell you what may help to explain the delay though:- administrators are said to charging £900 per hour. On that basis, a single administrator may have racked up a million in fees already.

if people were picking up stock at knock down prices wouldn't the market be rising instead of falling,its the institutions who are selling at knock down prices ainit it,or am I missing something, obviously someone always backs a 999 shot

A thread full of high flying ego tripping bull****s

Ill put up a thread with the truth, the real truth and nothing but the truth..

They're turning the screw again.
How much pain can you take before you're shaken out!

Hitting the same level as the bottom on 28 Feb, I said before they like to keep to their support levels.
They're looking to see how much selling is left in the market before their next move.

Motley Fool has put Easyjet up as a buy. Timing it right is impossible really, but get ready to buy em back lower.

I do find it a huge overreaction that the virus is being predicted that it might lower global growth from  what, 2.6 to (worst case?) 1.5% yet this has the effect of hammering 15%+ off the global stockmarkets, or whatever the total worldwide figure is. It's not like "we'll grow but 1ish percent slower", they are reacting as if it'll cause a world wide recession.

"Of course most can't do that because they depend on getting the money from their pension to live on."

It's not a clear cut issue like that anymore.

With pension freedom you can do annuitities in stages or do drawdown or take out the lump sum and defer the rest for annuities later, etc etc, AFAIK.
If you retired tommorow with a private pension you'd have a lump sum and even if you didn't you could draw down some now and take an annuity later if the markets recover. One of the best things the Tories have done that. Opposed of course by the lefties who HATE freedom as they patronisingly believe people can't handle their own financial affairs. I was discussing all this the other day to a nice guy in an indian call centre as I transferred most of my pension to a safe bank account he recommended.

its over 10% down on last month, good job you didnt and can fill up now...

"It is if they're retiring and need the money."
No it's not. In the old days AFAIK you had to take the annuity, and the entire annuity, on that date and you were ****ed if it was at the wrong time.

Now it's your pot, you could withdraw say 10% over the next 2 years as a drawdown then if markets recover convert it all into an annuity. Meanwhile the untouched pot can be kept in whatever hopefully well managed investment package it would've been in anyway.

Or just do it all via drawdown. I'm not saying the markets going down is a good thing but it's not end of the world and they don't have to start p1ssing around with being bound into sh1t annuities for the rest of their life at the moment. Which years ago would've been the case.

What you're on about doesn't apply to the normal married bloke.

He has difficulty making ends meet when he's working let alone when he's retired.