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Insteadly

It was a thing. But unlike the UK or ancient Rome, the USA does not fit the definition of empire. The phrase "the sun never sets on the British Empire" refers to the vastness of the British Empire, indicating that it was so extensive that it was always daytime in at least one of its territories. This saying highlights the global reach and influence of the empire during its peak. The phrase became widely used in the 19th century. It continued to be referenced into the early-to-mid 20th century.

dead_jester

UK here: There’s so many better options for fast food. And a lot of healthier choices. The inside of most McDonald’s are soulless and depressing and uncomfortable. The prices are too high for what you get and you usually have to wait for your food. A lot of people get delivery for fast food now so are willing to wait for better food at the same price delivered

123789dftr

You're literally responding right now 😂. The real reason you won't talk about it is because you're wrong. Maybe you understand that Amd is diluting shareholders which Nvda isn't doing. UK has gone down the shithole and you're so sensitive about it lol. I never said I was a trump fan, in fact I said he might be a retard too. But at the end of the day, he's still winning because at least he isn't British

123789dftr

Lmao. You can only respond to that. You're welcome for teaching you the difference between acquiring and diluting shares. Now do you understand the difference? Yeah he could be a retard. But it seems the UK as a collective is retarded. Like how sad yall went from the biggest empire in the world to crying for Brexit and having a smaller gdp per capita than Mississippi 😂.

pingoo26

Anyone in the UK use Investa to trade options? What are the contract fees like?

Bright-Wait-4572

Short version: the mechanics don't force either answer. Both treatments give the same total over the life of the position. What differs is timing and character, and that's a policy choice each tax system makes. \- Separate transactions: the $535 is taxed as option income now, and the shares carry a $1,000 basis. When you later sell the shares, that $535 shows up as a bigger loss (or smaller gain). Same total, income recognised earlier. \- Integrated: the premium is held open until the option resolves, then folded into the share basis ($465). Same total, all recognised when the shares are sold. In the US the integration isn't a consequence of physical settlement. It comes from a specific ruling, Rev. Rul. 78-182: a written option's premium is an open transaction until the option expires, is closed out, or is exercised, and on exercise of a written put it reduces the basis of the stock acquired. The UK reaches a similar result by statute: TCGA 1992 s.144 treats the grant and exercise of an option as a single transaction. So yes, another jurisdiction can reasonably treat them as two separate events, especially one that taxes financial arrangements on an accrual or mark-to-market basis rather than waiting for the option to resolve. Which bucket NZ puts a written equity put in (financial arrangement vs excepted, revenue vs capital account) is the part for an NZ tax adviser; the mechanics alone won't settle it.

NotForMeClive7787

Exactly. A maccies big Mac in reality only worth £4-5 for me in the UK maximum so $5-6 maximum yet we're paying quite a bit more than that which is ridiculous

Dependent-Panic-9457

apparently HMRC (UK) treats the put option premium as diminishing the cost of purchase. Source: Google

IsThereAnythingLeft-

Lmfao, you think the UK is full of retards! Look at the monkey in charge of the US and half of yous still like him

123789dftr

You must be completely retarded (makes sense though considering "mate" and UK is full of retards). Nvda is ACQUIRING shares of a different company. Amd is GIVING AWAY their own shares.

BoundToReality

Id argue it's much better than your average bloke at going through legal text tbh. I don't know every UK law but AI certainly does, it's very useful

Beginning-Fig-9089

imagine if the world leaders of UK, JP, CN, etc just had their own twitter accounts blasting 20 tweets a day with no filter. VIX would probably hit 200

massaro1234

Yes as long as they IPO and remain UK based. I've had enough of seeing good UK companies relocate or be bought out by US firms. Be nice to see a UK firm buy a big blue chip US firm for a change.

mondeomantotherescue

You already pay more per capita for healthcare than the UK does and yet you don't have an NHS. 

YellowSlugDMD

Hot take: it IS 100% deliberate dismantling of US as a world power, but not by this administration. It is a plan Russia/China. Slowly, through social media rage-farming bot posts, public sentiment shift, and isolationism/ xenophobia. Same can be said for the UK/Brixit fiasco. I feel crazy saying it, but I think one day I will feel crazy for now having seen it sooner.

EhEhRon12

You’re living in your own world if you think the world even noticed what the crypto market did back then. The 2016 correction was because oil plummeted to $26 a barrel, UK voted to leave EU and Asian markets crashing.

Mnshine_1

Like made in UK and made in USA lines are noticeably different compared to asian models, get anything from listed above like at -40%-50% on sales or on joe's putlet or ebay or smth like that, also watch reviews and usually half size down from nike size for made in US models, made in UK is pretty much same as asian size

j3ffro15

That article makes no sense.. it’s treating every thing that isn’t owned by a foreign country (ie the government of China or the UK or Germany) is domestic and that’s just not true especially when it comes to treasury bonds. Plenty of foreign “individual” investors own bonds.

Appropriate_Nebula67

My experience over the past 30 years or so is that sudden unwelcome expenses in the UK tend to be in the thousands not tens of thousands, so for me £5000 or so seems fine. If your job situation is insecure that's a good reason to keep more, at least 6 months expenditure. At least with the NHS sudden huge medical bills are unlikely though I did go private once for dental surgery £3000 10 years ago and definitely worth it.

Federal-Watch

I don’t remember that, was that a UK thing? I’m a 90s kid, so it could be wrong generation

pingoo26

Anyone use Investa for trading options in the UK? Looks a bit scammy and they have a very low profile on social media. Have signed up but they're taking ages to verify the account.

launchedsquid

Double dare Argentina to try. Do they even have amphibious assault ships? Do they this the Falklands is only held by 600 troopers still? The UK can see Argentine jets as they take off, do you really expect to get them across the ocean to the islands unscathed?

MeanTimeMeTime

They just flew an attack helicopter into Polish airspace today out of Kaliningrad. https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-russia-mi-8-helicopter-airspace-breach-kaliningrad/ They also have subs near UK undersea cables. Think about it. What choice does Putin have. I mean he is an evil basterd. But just saying.

Data_Over_Dogma

Isolation is the point. Isolation = control. He will need to slowly erode the US and UK/CAN/AUS and NATO relationship to achieve his “my hemisphere” objectives. This guy is copying Orban domestically and Putin internationally He’s fine with a three power system: US/Americas & Greenland, RUS/Europe, China/Asia He will not defend Taiwan the same way he didn’t defend Ukraine. Why South America? Natural Resources and easily purchased leadership Why not Africa? China and Russia influence & MAGA racists These idiots have convinced themselves that world economy is on the brink and global trade is shutting down. The whole savior complex and speech helps to justify any action. This includes not transferring power peacefully. It’ll get worse after they loose the midterms He/They aren’t subtle about it. Dementia Donny isn’t the mastermind, he’s just the cult personality. Europe needs to continue to learn from US mistakes and stop electing far right candidates. You just got rid of Orban. Enjoy it! Someone tell Germany

burner4lyf25

I agree ***this bot was funded and directed by "Rich people for punishing UK poors"***

GongTzu

So Trump gave him $40 billions so he could run a war with UK, sounds like another Russian favor.

eddie4h

Problem is that guy is fucking it up for everyone. And as you said the point of contention has been going for years, but he will make it about himself. He is the jack of all trades master of none. What makes him and the administration dangerous is that he has minions that will do whatever he wants. The oil fields if both sides were clever should be a joint venture between the UK and Argentina, but that would screw his idea of making the Americas America

Mnshine_1

The point is they ARE great if you are walking more than 2 hours Which model are you talking about, I am specifically talking about made in USA/UK line that is much more premium compared to regular New Balance

axewoodsman

For sure. Even UK, France and Japan likely has to sell some, they are broke.

B3AV3R_BLAST3R

The orange man bad elbows up Crew is out of control here. The cost of everything keeps going up. Taxes constantly increasing on gas, beer, ECT. Groceries are thru the roof. Wages are stagnant, but the real rate of inflation is more than 10% for a 5 year period. Trump is by no means a good human or a great leader. But he is right some times. Carney has a terrible track record, just look at the UK. Anyone who thinks Canada is currently doing well is either retired, on social assistance or needs to get their head checked out.

Spy300

>"UK Overexposed to Global Bond Markets": Prime Minister Burnham issued a direct fiscal warning, reiterating that the United Kingdom is dangerously overexposed to global bond markets as borrowing costs escalate. lmfao

DepartureAnxious5115

Honestly havent given it much deeper thought, neither side wants a conflict with each other but it might buy him time or some leverage. It also in counter provides a needed excuse for the west to up arm its self the UK alone is years from being conflict ready on that scale and the rest of Europe is also struggling and China is becoming more of a looming threat by the day. Europe needs to up arm and up skill its armies sooner than later and this provides an excuse. Like all things its all shadows and games what I have typed is nothing more than a working thought on what little info we have. So lord knows at this point.

Spy300

>U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON SAYS ON IRAN THAT 'I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A COMBINATION OF OUR ALLIED NATIONS, OUR FRIENDS IN NATO AND OTHER ARAB STATES … WHO WILL COME TOGETHER TO HELP MAKE SURE THAT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ REMAINS OPEN' >FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON: REOPENING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS A “PRIORITY”; MULTINATIONAL COALITION TO RESTORE FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION AND SECURE ENERGY FLOWS >UK's PM Burnham Tells Trump: We are ready to play our part in the Middle East. ✅️

Fireoxya

Hi folks, 32, UK. Employed, £27850/year Money is general savings, no other pots or ISAs. The money will be used to save for a wedding, car, lessons, holidays etc, potentially looking to deposit on a house. I am happy to have it be fairly risky, riskier than the current dividend pie. No big debts. \- I currently use Trading 212 and have around £4.5k in a 'Almost Daily Dividend' pie via The Dividend Experiment but after seeing stocks like AMD flying and just ultimately seeing my own return fall flat over the last 3 months with this pie, I just don't think holding something like this long term is the right call to make. So, I'm a little lost whether to put the money into individual stocks like Tech or AMD/Nvidia/Apple etc, or to follow another pie that looks into those types of stocks a bit more. I'm aware that these are obviously more volatile and are higher risk, but the money is sitting there as a risk I'm willing to take. Any ideas? Even just as general starting points on what to even look at for stocks or how to understand an outlook of a company to think that they would be a good call to make. Anything would be much appreciated!

AntikytheraMachines

countries move gold out of US. gold shiny. shiny gold safe in UK now.

idkuhhhhhhh5

*leave post-Brexit UK* Shoutout to the modern urge to balkanize the world. Fuck it, when we getting independent Isle of Man

Icy_Fish_2154

>Or Brexit crippling the UK, That was so obviously a grift. The pro Brexit groups spent millions saying "leaving the EU is suicide". The pro Brexit groups supported the Scotland leave vote, to force the issue before they then switched to Brexit, and once the vote was approved to happen, strongly opposed leaving. This was to keep Scotland from leaving after Brexit, because the Brexiters knew the UK (post Brexit) was fkd without Scottish oil. More money was spent by England than Scotland on the Scottish leave vote, all of the English money opposing leaving, most of which tied to pro-Brexit movement. It's not a conspiracy, it was just a playbook. Scotland should absolutely hold another vote, to leave post-Brexit UK. The Brexiters pushed for the Scottish leave vote before Brexit to make it harder to have a second vote so soon.

Forsworn91

It’s honestly why I don’t see it as some global conspiracy, I see it as bunch of greedy minded plans all starting to crash into each other. Putin wanted the US weak, Bibi needed the US to quickly defeat Iran, the US couldn’t beat Iran because its economy is failing forcing them to consider just pulling out, leaving Bibi and Israel exposed to the bear they just poked. Or Brexit crippling the UK, the people behind it would have made absolute bank, been elected on populism and continued the grift, only to have a country hit hard by the exit and an economy that didn’t bounce back and when a deal was worked out it was immediately sunk by Covid and a crippled NHS, leaving them without the money they expected. A whole bunch of horrible people with their own horrible plans all running into each other

Actual_Difference617

Fuck man how many prime ministers UK changes every few days?

Rosella2562

First of all, she\* - And no, I’m originally from a poor Eastern European country with no family money, and moved to the UK on a work visa where average annual salaries are £30k before taxes and don’t even cover rent - So yeah…

spanielion

I have a UK account, not sure.

FinishWarm1746

UK PM Andy Burnham Tells U.S. President Trump, “We Are Ready To Play Our Part In Middle East” - Reuters © 2020 Benzinga.com - Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

Spy300

>UK's PM Burnham Tells Trump: We are ready to play our part in the Middle East. 😮

steem99

I work for one of the biggest UK PC retailers and I can tell you with 100% certainty that the supply issues (mainly RAM and high end GPU's) are still very real and very much a pain in the arse. With no particular end in sight. Sorry.

jake5762

I felt the same about the UK so I left at 24. Spent a few years in New Zealand, went round Asia and ended up meeting my future wife in Canada, where I've been ever since. I was terrified of ending up back in the UK, even now as a Canadian citizen i still have the reoccurring nightmare. I did it with £5000. If you're happy to do laboring jobs or bar work, you can pretty much travel without digging into your investments/savings. I'd recommend finishing your masters though, if you can. After years of laboring it was nice to fall back on my degree and get an office job. Canadian winters aren't fun when you work outside.

Alternative-Web881

Has anyone used muse, can’t access it in the UK, is it useful?

FaithlessnessOk7379

9:55 AM EDT: Trump delivers his speech to the UN General Assembly, which will heavily focus on the ongoing U.S.–Iran war.10:40 AM EDT: Trilateral signing event with the Prime Ministers of Denmark and Greenland.11:45 AM EDT: Bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham.12:30 PM EDT: Bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.1:15 PM EDT: Bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.2:15 PM EDT: "Shield of the Americas" regional event.

Valuable_Calendar_79

Good example was after Brexit. Many English who sold their house in UK, moved to live in Spain. Years later, when UK decided to leave the EU, a lot of those folk lost their right to live permanent in for example Spain. They had to go back to UK but could not afford to buy or rent a house anymore

Oreos_Are_Anabolic

Gotta wait to get it in the UK *Heavy sigh*

Grotbagsthewonderful

>I would be freaking out if I were 69 and still owed $200k on my home Why? you can just downsize, I'm in the UK almost everyone over 70 I know did this once they retired and kids had flown the nest.

spaghetticode94

People in the US/UK can trade with their retirement accs. That's one of the common cases for sure.

MonkNo5

I didn't know my wife WAS on the list for a bag, she got offered a small Birkin, I said she was crazy to take it a 8k UK, but happy wife happy life so, she did, then sold it a month or so later to a high street resellers in Knightsbridge London for 17k !. Was December 24 so things may have changed since.

Negative-Mammoth-547

Mail voting works fine in the UK, dunno what he’s on abour

Bazzer82

In the UK, everybody used to buy Nike. Now it's seemingly just scruffs, chavs and roadmen. All of those with a bit of money and intelligence now usually buy stuff like New Balance, Adidas, OC, Asics etc etc. Basically, just not pathetic Nike tat.

Party_Virus

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see these companies trying to be regulated in countries outside of the US. Their companies are operating all over the world but they aren't asking the EU to regulate them. They aren't asking Canada to regulate them. They aren't asking the UK or Australia to regulate them. I think they actually fight regulations in all of those places. Like every multinational company has to obide by local regulations, they could start working on them with another governing body and then use that framework to convince the US that it can work. But as far as I know they aren't. Soooo, yeah. That seems very suspicious if their goal is slow AI development all over the world.

Impressive-Name5129

The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency reports an oil tanker has been “struck by an unknown projectile” while conducting an inbound transit in the Strait of Hormuz. I'm all for taking profits as much as the next guy. But when do we stop and realize not much has fundimentally changed

Ownagetacos

AI infrastructure, data centers, Microsoft partnership, network expansion, optical, 6G, and Saudi money backing, UK military defense news. AI-RAN is the future. Look into it

DroopyMythology

Nike is still everywhere in the UK but it’s become the default for kids and teenagers, not adults with money. Once you hit 25+ you notice everyone’s switched to On or Hoka for actual comfort, and Lululemon type stuff for the gym to brunch pipeline The collab and limited drop stuff only works on sneakerheads, who are maybe 5% of buyers. The other 95% just want something that doesn’t fall apart after a year and looks decent with jeans

MadeThatCash

Been the same past few days. Price will go back up to 102 when the UK markets open, tank during US session and then chop thereafter. Rinse and repeat

zoocrewsgarage

If other countries like the European Union, UK and others had helped Ukraine that would have been over . Now they have bombed all of the diesel refineries and the *supplies* are low which have hurt commerce. We as country feel the costs of everything going up . Gasoline is the last thing to go up . Diesel runs the world . No one across the pond has jumped in to help!!! The problem is in their backyard not ours.

Moepenmoes

Is there anything more annoying in life than IKEA's customer service replies to bad reviews? For every single product, every single time someone complains about an issue, the standard reply from IKEA is *"Hej, thanks for your review. We're sorry to read that you're disappointed with* ***>productname<****. Therefore, I advise you to contact our telephone customer service, send an email, or go to customer service with the product and the purchase details. I will pass on your feedback internally to right department.* *Kind regards, Mark from IKEA UK"* What annoys me even more is that they always use a randomly generated name for the "kind regards", as if an actual customer service employee named Mark actually wrote that piece of copy/paste shit of text. Every single reply ends with a different employee name. Sylvia, Mark, John, Donald, whatever the hell they can come up with. But the absolute worst part is that they never do ANYTHING with the feedback, not a single time in history did they go like "Dang you're right! We're going to change our product immediately!". No, they keep selling the shit product as-is and willingly accept the shit ton of negative reviews for the next 10+ years until they've sold all their inventory. I bet they don't even dare to IPO because they know their stock would become worthless on day 1.

KittyLover-7

🇺🇸🇬🇧 US Air Force B-1 bomber takes off from UK military base.

Icy_Jelly_315

In the UK it's more tax efficient to go for low coupon high redemption

Jazzlike-Middle-3772

Us europoors in the UK can get max 10 years. There are some that allow you to do 25 years but the interest would be something stupid like 6% at the time of Covid.

TheRumBarron

IBM employee here…unfortunately can’t agree with your thesis…IBM Cloud is absolute garbage, its absolutes hated by our clients? I’m in the consulting arm, so naturally I’m told to try and push IBM Cloud and anytime it’s mentioned, both IBM and customers have a joke about it… Mainframe is still one of the strong pipelines of IBMs given that most financial institutions operate on top of our zMainframes…but we aren’t talking market moving numbers, it’s just a steady revenue stream that will likely decline over time, albeit at a slow rate The problem with IBM is that we are so fucking slow to innovate, even when it’s right in front of us, despite the amount spent on R&D and I’ve been to some our R&D centres in the UK and US and it’s impressive….However we are just to god dam slow to commercialise anything….for example Watson, we had a version of AI long before LLMs, but even after someone else posted the research on LLMs we still failed to make Watson adapt, and were outpaced by the other big tech….Another great example with Cloud, IBM had a great hardware business, and were in a strong position to establish dominance in the cloud space, but again slow to scale, and eventually when they tried to make their own cloud business the service was dog shit in comparison with Amazon and Azure. This always leaves IBM in a position where instead of being the solution owner (where the money is at) they need to pivot to becoming a service provider for such solution, I.e consulting on other peoples solutions….or buying the solution owners, problem is, you quickly find those solutions get rebranded and entangled into the IBM ecosystem where it dies a slow death - thankfully they have left RedHat alone! The same story will happen with Quantum as well, we have done great research and innovation there, but as soon as the technology is in a position to be commercialised, Google, Atos etc will beat us to market with it - IBM don’t have the ability to turn innovation into commercial viability

elefontius

So you basically took all the headlines and didn't do any actual research. Your ability to think outside of headlines is pretty poor so let me break down your arguments. Hating the US and glazing China is your right but at least make it factually accurate. None of what you used as examples explain your assertion that China is holding all the cards. China isn't helping with oil prices - they just aren't importing as much due to their domestic issues and slow down of manufacturing. Additionally, they are the only country in the world that run coal refineries. China's renewable energy transition has been going on for a while but solar panel prices have plummeted so they are exporting out clean energy systems but at a loss. In rare earths they have a dominate position in refining. That's an important distinction - they don't control access to or have a physical monopoly on rare earth minerals. Rare earth minerals are located all over the world in small deposits. They lead in refining rare earth minerals and that monopoly is disappearing due to heavy investments across the world into building refining and processing plants. The US has massive undeveloped rare earth deposits. In the past it was cheaper to just buy from China. Also, the US lead 60 years ago in exporting rare earth minerals. Environmental regulations made it cheaper and easier to just import from China. Case in point - the US has one of the largest, if not the largest lithium deposits in the world. The US is currently developing this and other sites. Historically Mountain Pass refinery has been the sole rare earth processing site in the US and it accounts for 16% of the total world output for rare earth minerals. China dumping US Treasuries isn't a new thing. I work in the bond market and this is a known pattern. The US and Japan recently jointly intervened to prop up the Japanese Yen and it caused the Yuan to drop in value. China in turn dumped US treasuries to manage their currency pegs because they are dependent on exports to drive their entire economy. It's not a healthy dynamic for them because it hurts their domestic economy by favoring exports over currency stability. Lastly, China isn't holding that much in US Treasuries - it's down to about 650B and shrinking. In comparison Japan has almost 2x that amount and the UK holds 900B. The entire US treasury market is 32T of which most is held by domestic bond holders and the government. China's US Treasury Holdings over time [https://en.macromicro.me/series/3357/us-treasury-bonds-major-foreign-holders-china](https://en.macromicro.me/series/3357/us-treasury-bonds-major-foreign-holders-china) Decline in China's export of solar equipment [https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-solar-equipment-exports-log-fourth-straight-year-on-year-decline-august-2026-09-18/](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-solar-equipment-exports-log-fourth-straight-year-on-year-decline-august-2026-09-18/) China increasing coal power [https://apnews.com/article/china-coal-solar-climate-carbon-emissions-242abe76eb69f5a362e977de74ff3254](https://apnews.com/article/china-coal-solar-climate-carbon-emissions-242abe76eb69f5a362e977de74ff3254) US Lithium Deposit [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-5-trillion-lithium-deposit-114805186.html](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-5-trillion-lithium-deposit-114805186.html) Lastly, China isn't moving their sweatshops dude. Other countries like India, Vietnam and Thailand have stepped up to encourage more direct foreign investments. Companies are choosing to open new factories outside of China. Case in point - Apple built their new iPhone factory in India and this will continue as a trend.

Infinite-Fly-8806

I’m in the UK, do we get 5k too? Asking for a friend

Salt_Contract342

In talks with the UK for a military contract too. Not sure why all the haters. It is a good buy and hold.

butt_shrecker

I still dislike EUs surveillance policies. But you are right that the US and UK are way way worse.

ReggaePizza

Must be referring to non EU member UK, never seen an EU member country have surveillance stuff to the level of FLOCK and the NSA. Literally ultimate surveillance being implemented in the states currently.

Pure-Astronomer7364

Ha! You peasant, I trade from the UK. I convert currencies in the end but here you go. https://preview.redd.it/nl2hj6o51bqh1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65e49fb834ead95fea923da302c65685d56d44c2

flyingdutchmnn

Judging by how the UK is doing right now; No. In fact, that's comical.

Capt_Zapp_Brann1gan

Plenty have. The Rothchilds are still pretty rich. The UK Royal Family still have a lot of money. The Rockerfella's still have billions.

patrick_ottawa

Didn't EU just take and take from UK? Take from the strong and keep on giving to the weak?

karl4319

90% sure this is the next step. 10% is nuclear strikes. 

JASH_DOADELESS_

God how I wish the UK hadn’t thrown its copy of this ability down the drain because “immigrants bro” ffs

ProductOver9352

Its gonna be UK soon like cancer madness its already here anyway

grahamsz

True, but I think the impact of the data centers should be generally borne by the local population that uses them. I wouldn't be surprised to see the UK ban data centers but not AI, pat themselves on the back about how good their environmental policies are and ignore that they've just outsourced all those emissions.

Salt_Contract342

Yup. That drop was oversold, hence it climbing back. News of a UK defense deal now too

Feeling_Signature423

I've been researching INmune Bio (NASDAQ: INMB) and thought it was worth putting on people's radar. It's a ~$60M micro-cap biotech with two late-stage programs targeting very different markets. 1. Ebstrocel / CORDStrom — RDEB INMB is developing an allogeneic umbilical-cord-derived cell therapy for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and devastating genetic skin disease. The company has reported positive Phase 2 results and has been working through the regulatory/manufacturing process. UK MHRA filing is targeted for Q4 2026, with EU/US submissions planned afterward. � INmune Bio +1 2. XPro1595 — early Alzheimer's with neuroinflammation XPro is designed to selectively target soluble TNF and neuroinflammation. The Phase 2 MINDFuL trial produced statistically significant MRI biomarker results, and the drug received FDA Fast Track designation. The company has discussed a Phase 2b/3 pathway, although funding/partnering is a major consideration. � INmune Bio +1 What caught my attention recently is the two new board appointments: a current Sanofi U.S. Rare Diseases executive and a biotech executive with extensive licensing/BD experience. INMB says they're specifically being brought in to strengthen commercialization, market access and strategic partnering. � INmune Bio At ~$2/share, the market cap is still tiny relative to the potential markets these programs are targeting. Obviously this is a high-risk biotech: neither drug is approved, financing is a significant risk, and clinical/regulatory outcomes are uncertain. I'm not saying it's a guaranteed winner — I just think INMB is an interesting company worth researching before its upcoming catalysts.

Tammer_Stern

Wish I could read the FT. Anyway, I guess this is something new for the EU and details are still to be worked out but hopefully it ends up something really good and then the UK might sign up too!

flingent

Can the us UK brextards get in on this action as well please

harrison_wintergreen

1984 described if Stalinist Russian policies were enacted in the UK, but nice try.

zashuna

Wait, so the sanctions placed by the UN, which was pushed by the UK and the US, directly led the deaths of 1.6 million Iraqis. In other words, had the sanctions not been placed, then those 1.6 million people likely would have still loved. This is from your article: "The economic sanctions the UN placed on Iraq over a decade ago have caused more than 1.6 million deaths in that country, the Iraqi state news agency (INA) said Friday." Wow, so actually the number of deaths caused by the US in Iraq is even worse than I thought. It's not 200K civilians, it's more like 1.8 million civilians. And you thought this would actually help your point? Holy shit, you're retarded. "One could argue that the US led liberation saved hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives in the long run. Not to mention that Iraq is now a democracy and a country in good standing internationally." Yes, hundreds of thousands were saved I bet from the lifting of sanctions, imposed by the US mind you. And maybe before waxing lyrical about the US intervention in Iraq, maybe it would be a good idea to ask Iraqis today how they feel about the US. After all, if it really was so great and Iraq is in such a better position today, I'm sure Iraqis today are very appreciative if the US. Oh wait, nvm, they fucking hate your guts: https://news.gallup.com/poll/11536/gallup-poll-iraq-iraqis-consider-their-nations-future.aspx

her_majestys_dildo

Gas $11.93 a gallon in UK. Paying for your fucking war

MddlingAges

PingPong when invented in the UK was whiff whaff, very similar.

-mini-kuma

Sunny day in UK, assembled hedgehog house before the usual US market chaos. https://preview.redd.it/8aauqcodm2qh1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b86648dd28873e570d81b6484c0484bc5b162c57

CatBattleZ

Yeah, for some reason Internet is way more expensive in western Europe. Atleast Portugal and UK are more expensive.

Sufficient_Habit5091

That isn't true. UK, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Most of Western Europe managed to keep their democratic systems intact. It was Spain, Austria, Italy and smaller Eastern European nations that fell.

Brucipher

NVIDIA - 18.4% MSFT - 15.8% GOOGL - 11.4% AAPL - 10.7% VUSA - 10.6% VUKE - 8.2% LLOY - 8.1% LGEN - 7.6% AVGO - 4.8% SPCX - 4.1% What do you think? 50% exposure to Chip/AI Tech 20% ETFs 70% US stocks (30% UK) <20% in a single share

99-Watermelons

I opened up an account with one of the biggest online brokerages in the world and then started selling a bunch of Ai stocks and stocks listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ. It's a big world out there and it's just as easy to buy stocks in one country as another. I've now got stocks in the USA, UK , Switzerland, Korea , Taiwan, Hong Kong , Australia and New Zealand. The biggest risk most folks with USA ETF's don't understand is how heavily their fund is exposed to the big 7 tech companies . Ai is real, it's not going away however; and it's a big however ; the real unknown is who is going to win the Ai race ....all this money being spent of data centres and the monetising of compute is going to end in tears for some of the big 7 ...there's not going to be 7 winners ..there's not 7 Amazon's, there's not 7 Google's , or 7 Ebay's. In this web based economy usually just 1 or 2 players emerge as the dominant players , so some of those Ai stocks are going to plummet and so will various funds which will heavily weighted with those big 7 because that's what your laws and financial controls require of fund managers . T here's solid businesses that return money year after year - they aren't sexy , they don't grow at 100+ % a year ..things like Utility companies that have been around 50- 100 years , railways , freight moving companies , global medical businesses , big Pharma. Look up a fund on the NYSE called IQLT ...( International Quality ) ..it only invests in large quality stable companies outside the USA and it spreads the fund around the planet ...this is just about spreading risk . Buy some physical gold - 5-10% of your portfolio and get some T bills and have the security of some fixed interest as well . The Ai bubble is coming , it might be 12-24 months away but it's impossible for the level of investment we are seeing to just continue and it's going to emerge that 1-2 players will be the big winners and the rest will be losers. I have investments in utilities - power and airport companies , Big Pharma , Mineral gold and oil companies , Entertainment , Electric vehicles + the world biggest manufacturer of EV batteries plus some tech stocks but now only 1 of those Ai tech stocks is on the NASDAQ , the others are in Taiwan and Korea . In essence I've just spread things around for what is inevitably going to happen . Personally as a non American I'm so concerned at the instability your President has created that I see his irrational behaviour affecting every person on the planet with a global recession headed our way , so I've shifted the profits I've made out of USA NASDAQ listed AI tech stocks and diversified, because thats how genuinely concerned I am around the erratic behaviour and potential for global financial chaos - all led by 1 very untrustworthy man

cageslutjoanna

That's understating it though. Of those top 20, many are microstates or tax havens without the concern of scale (San Marino, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg). Next are a number of classically neutral /island nations that are only a bit larger, and as such still don't have the concern of scale (Ireland, Switzerland, Iceland, Singapore, Macau for good measure also fits in here. So the first actual heavyweight is Norway, no surprise, it's basically the best managed country in the world. Then we have more european tax-free or tax-light subsidized territories (Bermuda, the Caymans, the Isle of Man, the Channel and Faroe islands, Greenland) So, the nations above us that we should reasonably be competing with, given our concerns and scale include Norway, the US, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, Israel and Qatar (one heavily subsidized by the US, the other by oil), Austria, Germany, Belgium and the UK Now I agree that we should reasonably be higher up on that list, but when we only include nations that have the similar breadth and scale, and thus - similar problems that we do, we're like, 11th, depending on your view of the Danes, Belgians, Austrians, Israelis and Qataris.

GoodboyJohnnyBoy

There’s a cohort of right wing lowlifes here in the UK that have been trying desperately to get on board with trump ha! He’s doing sterling work destroying all that bullshit.

Bagholder147

NOK. UK defense contract.

lechimpanzeu

Except the part where UK wants back. If we neglect that and the rest you are right

Agitated-Actuary-195

Having seen the train wreck Brexit caused the UK, and initially being significantly angry with people that voted for it - I realised one big thing over time… The people that voted for it, were lied to, sold an impossible vision that was never deliverable, the media manipulated people, fed them constant BS… I think the US has it far worse but the comparisons are clear…so yes there will some people who really know what’s going on and support it, but a lot won’t… My point is don’t blame the people…. Blame everyone above

ahoserehh

I totally agree with you but I have to tell you, carney knows finances well enough to fuck it up irreversibly such as what he did in the UK.

kal14144

The UK hasn’t discovered air conditioning yet it’s not exactly on the cutting edge of fashion either

Good_Parking_5761

Okay, I'm UK based so I'm not sure which audience this will reach, but I know NOTHING about investing. I’m a 19 year old student, living at home with my parents so I don’t pay for an accommodation or any bills, except from my mobile data plan and gym membership every month. i don't have a job at the moment, the job market is horrendous (but I'm still searching) but I receive my student finance in 2 weeks, I get £3k each semester but this first payment, the majority is going to cover my overdraft, which yes I know was a stupid idea to get myself into but I'm not going to be making that mistake again - but I'll also have a few hundred left over from that. I always hear people say it's best to invest in like high yield savings accounts and 401ks and those ROTH things. I came across a TikTok today and the person said even if I was to put aside £5 a month to invest, it's better than nothing and it's better to start off like that so it's easier for me to make mistakes now on low amounts rather than down the line but I don't know where to start? Like is it an app i download and then put money into and leave it? Do i sign up for a website like what is it exactly that i need to do?? And no i don't want to invest to become a trader or anything i just want to start now so i have a little financial advantage or benefit when im older. I was thinking of opening an ISA on that trading 212 app and maybe putting a side a small amount each month but since I am completely clueless, I thought I'd ask first?

OptionConcoction

Of the top 20 countries ranked by GDP per capita, Canada ranks 21. Only two of the top 20 have a population bigger than Canada (the USA and UK). I'm not convinced that's gonna be a great strategy.