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My Blooming Big BG Bungle – and How To Avoid Similar Disasters.

By Malcolm Stacey

26 January 2015 02:21

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Hello Share Truckers. One of my biggest ever killings came about by my having hardly any work to do. It was the amazing rise and rise of British Gas.

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alcira16247

26 January 2015, 02:44

Malcolm

Sound advise.

My two biggest ‘successes’ were stocks that I’d completey forgotten about, namely Manpower ( remember Blue Arrow? ) and Electra. I suppose there is a lesson to be learnt there!

Fingers crossed too, on the oil price recovery. I guess, once the US have considered that Putin has learnt his lesson, they will call off their Saudi stooges and we will quickly get OPEC reigning back production, big time.
Jimbo

26 January 2015, 05:50

I wouldn’t blame the Oil Price fall on the US – rather Saudi Arabia acting alone to restore her market share. Current prices are hardly benefitting US Shale Oil Production. If anything, they could cause the junk bond market in the US to implode. Many of the bonds sold have financed Shale Oil drilling…
Malcolm Stacey

26 January 2015, 08:54

Thanks Alco and Jimbers. I did not realise the Saudi connection. But whatever the reason for the oil crash, it will not last. Another year and the price will be double what it is today – back to par, in fact.