David Barlow Buik MBE (born 21 March 1944) is a businessman and financial pundit for the BBC and other British, American and Australian television channels and radio stations. (wikipedia)
It is a takeover target as well, to be candid. Someone is going to have a nibble.
The market is tired. I think we've had a terrific week -- not so much in gains, but more in being able to maintain the 6,000 threshold.
The market is so overweight with this stock. Investors expected more.
The market has a very strong undertone to it and would seem reluctant to surrender too much of its recent gains. Very strong and robust turnover yesterday ventures to suggest some serious commitment to the market place.
It may be that the energy stocks follow in the wake of the slightly negative performance of oil stocks in Europe this morning.
There is little sign that the retail sector is going to pick up in the U.K. ...We got adequate figures from Sainsbury's this morning, but they were already priced in.
The staff count for New York was about 1,000. But one has no idea with holidays, with biz trips, biz meetings during the day, who was there and who wasn't. We are still waiting to find out.
Though interest rates are expected to continue their rise in an orderly manner, the U.S. economy continues to look robust. So perhaps the piles of cash that are waiting in the wings will be put to good use as we head toward Thanksgiving and the New Year.
It's definitely the end of the PC market as an expanding industry. I suspect other companies will be looking at similar mergers.
This should be one of the least complicated decisions the MPC will have to make on Thursday for some time.
