Bye-bye Barclays

[Mich the Tester]

36.4

72.98

162839934690023.93

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Why do you care?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Traders. Traders are the problem the bunch of clueless retarded barrow-boy cockney w**ker headless chicken sheep that they are. I pis on them

(I don't mean you lot, I mean those working on the trading floors)

OI !!!!

I am/was not a 'headless chicken sheep'. The rest is fair comment.

[Cheshire Cat]

just out of interest (i've never owned shares) when do the shares pay a dividend, and when do you have to own them to be paid this dividend?
i.e. If I bought today, then they announce their 2008 profits, and declare what their divs will be, do I get the divs, or is there some cut off date to stop people buying shares just before the dividends are issued?
I'm an investment virgin, so I don't know how these things work.

[Mich the Tester]

I don't know how these things work.

They don't. That's why we're in this mess.

[cailin maith]

just out of interest (i've never owned shares) when do the shares pay a dividend, and when do you have to own them to be paid this dividend?
i.e. If I bought today, then they announce their 2008 profits, and declare what their divs will be, do I get the divs, or is there some cut off date to stop people buying shares just before the dividends are issued?
I'm an investment virgin, so I don't know how these things work.

loss

[Cheshire Cat]

36.4

72.98

162839934690023.93

4

0.1

2

Why do you care?

Alright, don't get out of your pram. What's it to you why I care?

[Mich the Tester]

loss

She’s right you know.

[ace00]

OI !!!!

I am/was not a 'headless chicken sheep'. The rest is fair comment.

You can have a free CUK pass, but tell your mates I will rip off their heads and pis in the hole if they don't start buying BARC.
Although I see it did bounce off 70 so well done fellow CUKers.

[Mich the Tester]

Alright, don't get out of your pram. What's it to you why I care?

You shouldn’t care because the whole thing’s a big fruit machine. The fact that a share went down says nothing about whether it will go up or down in five minutes, five weeks or five years time. You’ve fallen for the Monte Carlo fallacy, just like millions of others.

[ace00]

She’s right you know.

No, she's wrong - Barclays have already pre-declared 2008 profit exceeding analyst expectations.
They also announced that a dividend announcement will take place 2nd half 09 (it is currently ceased). But that was when the stock price was double what it is now.