Andrea34l

Another positive trading update from Plus500 (LON:PLUS) this morning who are "pleased to announce that the strong momentum, previously referred to in its trading update on 20 November 2018, has been maintained through to the year end. Accordingly, with the year ended 31 December 2018 almost complete, the Board anticipates the financial performance will be ahead of current market expectations." The shares are up 8.1%…

I think quite a number of stocks are falling suddenly, for no obvious reason with no news... it's just market fragility - Marlowe (LON:MRL) has been hit in this way recently.

Maybe I am missing something... but I thought Acacia Mining (LON:ACA) had agreed a takeover by Barrick Mining?? As it is an all-share-no-cash deal, then I would have though the only further movement in the shares of Acacia Mining (LON:ACA) would be in direct correlation to Barrick's shares and there is no trading future in Acacia in itself...?

Have a nice weekend too; thanks for the write ups. The only news on my horizon (apart from a CRAP portfolio week) is from my not so small-cap recent holding Ultra Electronics Holdings (LON:ULE) announcing with Sparton DeLeon Springs the award of an IDIQ contract valued at Not-to-Exceed amount of $1.04B to their ERAPSCO joint venture, for the manufacture of sonobuoys for the United States…

The performance of Lookers (LON:LOOK) is pretty woeful compared to Marshall Motor Holdings (LON:MMH) though, as you say, this is not the time to be buying shares in car dealers.

Although Impax Asset Management (LON:IPX) may be a good long term, I am very cautious about investing in fund managers at the moment with the current volatility and Brexit likely to be an even bigger factor in the coming months.