@Kiava it was not my intention to rattle you, so sorry if my feedback did. Some people are 100% UK so try not to threat too much and do what feels right to you 
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Nah no worries it’s just a Scottish term it just means I’m a little stressed out with my portfolio but Tbh of you seen my previous posts I have been for a while.
I keep saying thstd enough for rio but bevause the prices we just had i couldn’t help myself.
Yes tho it would be stupid to sell it just to make the weight better then all I spoke was lose stamp study to buy back in and pay stamp duty.
So like you said I’ll just leave most stocks etc dormant and work on getting these etfs 3x higher st least than rio
Ps thanks for all the help as well guys and gals much appreciated alot of this is new to me even my friends confused this tqqqq and QQQ and all that. That will be my shower torn research but do we even get them on here.?
I’m dire I seen someone on dog chat saying QQQ is due soon.
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This article has a very satisfying graphic with generation capacity and demand per proposed zone. Looks like Northern England + Scotland would be exporters while everyone else would be importers.
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The grid is holding us back for sure. I would hope that the economics of hydrogen creation would make it viable for electrolysis to happen when otherwise there’d be periods of curtailment. I guess it’s the same as any other idea of avoiding curtailment where it isn’t viable to do X or Y because curtailment does not happen that frequently and the capital outlay of doing X means it has to run all the time. The cost of 1kg of hydrogen created via electrolysis does seem be competitive at around the current strike price on the UK grid.
Looks like the market’s taking a dip today! Let’s see if we can bounce back soon.
What’s happened to semiconductors over the last 20 mins? They’re falling off a cliff. Particularly ASML.
Recovery will take longer than expected for ASML.
Earnings release today, webcast scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Apparently clients are holding orders, and what was expected to be an improvement on the next quarters will now take place in 2025.
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More to follow as the AI bubble continues to burst and semi supply chain normalises.
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Rumours of a US cap on chip exports.
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Good news for UK inflation:
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The Bank of England and being behind the curve, name a better duo
Almost all other central banks and being behind the curve?
I know that there is a lot of speculation about the budget but this article is interesting:
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Interesting. I don’t actually hate the idea of a cap.
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I don’t either to be fair, would be interesting to see how they handle accounts that have already passed the cap amount.
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Is that £500K in contributions? at £20K per year that would take 25 years. The number of people affected would be tiny, as would the amount of money it would raise. seems a bit pointless tbh
I read it as an overall cap of £500k including gains based on this paragraph. Of course all hypothetical at this stage.
‘A £500,000 cap would draw a line in the sand and prevent any more investors from breaking the million-pound barrier.’
Wouldn’t you just keep drawing down gains each year if you were close to the cap to avoid any potential tax? Seems flawed to me.
Seems like they want more people into the GIAs of this world. To be fair £20k per annum is generous compared to the states IRA allowances ($7k).
But with that all being said above, surely this won’t have a big impact considering we as a country don’t save enough as it is and would only affect a small percentage.
Counter point, it would make the well off use GIAs more and subsequently pay more capital gains tax.
Yeah, I don’t know how that would work, would they force you to sell?